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26/09/2024

One of the stars of With Weather Volume 2: Gadigal Country was Pond in Trumper Park, near Edgecliff Station, Sydney. Come down this Saturday evening to experience the Pond, Clinton Green, Jim Denley and Uma Volkmer co-creating.
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10/05/2024

We have asked to talk with Jim Denley about his On Weather series - Please find the link in our Bio

19/04/2024

https://splitrec.bandcamp.com/album/as-weather-volume-3-budawang-mountains
Released today!

As Weather Volume 3: Budawang Mountains
Jim Denley and the eternally orchestrating sonoverse

Outside of halls, chambers, and studios, as-weather musicking unfolds with the Ravine that runs through the Monolith Valley, Budawangs Mountains, Yuin Nation. Musicking with gum-nut, voice, flute, other beings, energies, and place, perceptions and soundings entangle with diverse weathers.

Reviews for Volume 1 + 2:
“One must be open to noticing minutiae that, more than those of a musical statement, relate to priceless slivers of existence.”
Massimo Ricci writing in Touching Extremes

“…an amalgamation which is probably the closest a modern day listener can come to what could be described as a recreation of ‘early ancient music’ experienced by our ancestors thousands or more years ago. This is a time-dissolving trip.” BAZE. DJUNKIII writing in Nitestylez.Released

05/04/2024

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Jim Denley new album ‘As Weather Volume 3: Budawang Mountains’

Available for preorder on LP/ CD / DL today via the link, where the first single, ‘Diffraction Study #1’ can also be streamed.

This release marks the third and final volume of Jim Denley’s ‘Weather’ series, alongside In Weather (Splitrec 31), and With Weather (Splitrec 32). This project has emerged over the last four years of Jim's PhD research, centred around recording/‘musicking’ with Budawang Mountains (Yuin Country) and Sydney Harbour (Gadigal Country).

Since the late 1980s Jim Denley has been musicking with the Budawang Mountains, regularly hanging out there to play and record. This volume continues Jim’s enquiry into ways of musicking that are anti-anthropocentric and which seek to co-create in sonic reciprocity with primordial ecologies.

This is a deeply personal album and we are proud to start sharing the music. Thank you for listening, more music and info to come!
Also, it’s Bandcamp Friday!

https://splitrec.bandcamp.com/album/as-weather-volume-3-budawang-mountains

20/02/2024

Announcing the new digital release of ‘Burst’ by Bad PhotoGraphy, on our digital sublabel Caterpillar. We started caterpillar as a way to share the incredible individual and collaborative work of folks within, and closely affiliated with, Splinter Orchestra - a constantly evolving large(ish) scale improvisational, exploratory and experimental collective.

Bad PhotoGraphy, is a trio comprising Jim Denley, a Splinter member for over 20 years, with two of Splinter’s newest members, Uma Volkmer and Alex Tucker. With alto sax, trumpet, vocals and drums, this improvising trio embarks on a ride through new terrain, pushing each other to play at the edges of what they know, and exploring how they listen, relate and create in each others’ company.

‘Burst’ is an exciting ‘snapshot’ of this new collaboration, having just formed over the last 6 months, but done some serious playing, gigging, recording and listening together in that time.

The music is fresh, fiery, inquisitive and invigorating, and we invite you to check it out on Caterpillar bandcamp page https://caterpillarrec.bandcamp.com/album/burst

They are launching the album tomorrow, Thursday 22nd February at Johnston Street Jazz in Annandale, 7:30pm. https://www.facebook.com/events/1329541941080556

🎨by Uma Volkmer
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18/02/2024

Caterpillar - the digital release sub-label of Splitrec are proud to announce this new beauty.

4 track album

03/01/2024

“Deep Listening Music in its purest form, featuring bird chatter and barking dogs as well as droning, oftentimes slightly off-kilter flute sequences, ominous low frequency rumbles of unclear origin, mechanical air flows and hypnotic, ever repeating fragments of melodies, static crackles and everlasting eternal calmness, rural water flows, colliding sticks, rocks and partially indecipherable voices deeply embedded in the mix - an amalgamation which is probably the closest a modern day listener can come to what could be described as a recreation of 'early ancient music' experienced by our ancestors thousands or more years ago. This is a time-dissolving trip.”

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