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By a Young Woman from the Lumko Valley

by Roche van Tiddens

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This bowscape is a sonic transformation of the audio cassette by Dave Dargie, “Make and Play your own Musical Bow”. Dargie gives examples of how to play the traditional isiXhosa bow music from South Africa. I transcribed the melody and rhythm from the example given, “played by a young woman from the Lumko valley”, for the electronic sound work by creating playback patterns of short samples taken from the tape. The playback patterns form a melody line with pitch shifting of the sound samples, and are played on the transcribed rhythm through calculation of durations. A combination of playback patterns creates a texture that combines the speech samples with the bow music.

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released April 7, 2023
Samples taken from the recordings made by Dave Dargie in "Make and Play your own Musical Bow 1995"

composed for the album:
Bow Project 2
"Bowscapes in memory of Jürgen Bräuninger"
Concept and curation: Michael Blake
Africa Open Institute

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Roché has a fascination for nature and the sounds that occur in the African ‘bushveld’. His work stems from a close interaction with sound from natural environments.

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