Oceanian PhoNographic Mornings #20 - Tristan Louth-Robins "Fleurieu Passage (Across Dawn)"

Stéphane Marin presents a weekly series of twenty soundscapes recorded in the mornings at various locations throughout Oceania. This series forms part of a wider project, Each Morning of the World, which invites sound artists, composers and recordists globally to share their own specific point of listening, either through a raw field recording or original composition.

“Fleurieu Passage (Across Dawn)” is a composition intended to evoke early morning on the Fleurieu Peninsula. Three field recordings taken in Yankalilla, Normanville Beach and Ingalalla Falls form the narrative basis of the composition, whilst additional sounds are employed in order to emphasise aspects of the soundscape, or serve as transitions from one recording to another. The locations featured in this composition hold considerable personal significance to me, as they represent places that I have visited and explored since my childhood. In this respect, the ‘passage' the listener follows is essentially an exploration of the landscape in the early hours of the morning; inevitably affected by degrees of sleepiness, disorientation and lucidity.

Tristan Louth-Robins (*1981, Adelaide, South Australia) is an Australian artist working mainly in sound. His work is realised through recordings, installation, visual art and performance. He is interested in sound and its associative implications - including its relationship to objects, technology, urban space, memory and the natural world.