"...a kind of tribute to Toru Takemitsu and Japan. The sound sequence contains screaming Japanese students in the North Head tunnels (reacting to my guitar noises as I was recording in there). Those tunnels had been used as a defence position against possible Japanese invaders in the 2nd world war.”
North Head (2003)
Other works by Rachel Shearer
Rachel Shearer
I am an open window (2015)
A work commissioned by CIRCUIT in response to the poetry of Joanna Margaret Paul.
Ron Bull / Janine Randerson / Rachel Shearer
Mākū: Te Ha O Haupapa (2024)
A collective attunement to the breath of Haupapa (Tasman) Glacier through Kai Tahu cosmologies, instruments of science including audio hydrophones and underwater camera receivers, and more-than-human scales of aural and visual perception.