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Floating in Space

from Orbits and Riffs by Ephemera Ensemble

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This piece is influenced by the basic tenets of Zen Buddhism, specifically the blowing technique of the Japanese end-blown bamboo flute shakuhachi, as a means to meditate on nothingness, or void. Musicologist Jay Keister states: “The Fuke sect of Buddhists practiced a form of shakuhachi meditation known as suizen, or blowing Zen”. Suizen is the concept of self-realisation through meditation on nothingness during improvisation. Features shakuhachi Zen improvisation include lack of steady pulse, fragmented melodies, pitch bends and use of a pitch collection roughly similar to the Western minor pentatonic scale. It also widely uses sustained notes due to the importance of controlled deep breathing. Similarly Floating in Space has all these features with the addition of the backdrop of space sounds. When listening to the raw sound of Nebulae mp3, two main pitches can clearly be heard: Middle C, C above Middle C and F above Middle C, which is has some of the main pitches from the harmonic series starting on F as the fundamental. These 2 pitches provide the tonal centres of the piece. Sheet music published by Wirripang.

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from Orbits and Riffs, released December 18, 2017
Composed by Keyna Wilkins in 2012 with nebulae space sounds derived from spectrograph data from various nebulae in our galaxy compiled by astronomer Dr Paul Francis (www.mso.anu.edu.au/pfrancis/Music/). Flute: Keyna Wilkins.

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Ephemera Ensemble Sydney, Australia

"Arresting, genre-blurring..Disquieting music with massive breadth and high drama.
4 STARS" John Shand, Sydney Morning Herald

Ephemera Trio: A musical exploration of celestial landscapes such as pulsars, craters, planetary atmospheres, stars, sun and void. Merging the sound worlds of jazz and contemporary classical, and set to real space sounds, it is an original sonic experience. ... more

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