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No Particular Place

by David Chesworth

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Subway 00:43
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Rustics 01:51
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Danced 01:56
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Rejected 02:32
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Subway Again 00:57
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Awake 01:53
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Nowhere Else 02:22
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about

The music was written in 1985 for Sydney's Nimrod Theatre production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The production stared a very young Hugo Weaving, who sang a song I wrote for his character (he has a nice tenor voice).

Much of the music was created using the Fairlight CMI sampler which was an Australian invention, with other sounds programmed on the then newly released Yamaha DX7 keyboard.

Both of these instruments are famous for introducing completely new ways of creating musical sounds which was great for achieving an orchestral dreamscape for the play.

Both instruments ventured well outside the normal ranges of conventional instruments, as well as allowing the creation of completely new sounds, which is where things became really interesting for me - especially when composing music for a dream.

It might be that this record was one of the first independant records to be made using the Fairlight CMI.

The Fairlight was hugely expensive at the time, however I managed to gain access to one at Melbourne's Victorian College of the Arts and to another Fairlight at the Sydney Music Conservatorium through composer Martin Wesley Smith who ran the studio. Tertiary institutions were the only places, other than expensive recording studio's and very famous musicians, that could afford to own them.

Additional Fairlight programming was also done on Fairlight's own studio located in the Sydney suburb of Fairlight. A friend had a key to that place and we had access during the evenings.

The record, Skippy Knows by the group Whadya Want? of which I was part, was also made using the Fairlight, but on that record the newer, version 2 Fairlight was used.

credits

released January 1, 1986

Additional drum programming and access to the VCA and Fairlight's own CMI's was provided by Warwick Bone. Access to the Sydney Con's Fairlight was through Martin Wesley-Smith.

Voisus choir conducted by Anthony Briggs

Soprano Sax by Lloyd Nicholas

Tenor Sax played by Ian Cox (Essendon Airport)

Clarinet Paul Weir

Album cover pictures by Paul Fletcher (Essendon Airport)

Design Russel Bradley

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David Chesworth Melbourne, Australia

While I'm not into genres myself, according to others I make experimental, electronic, post-punk, minimal synth-pop, post-classical, field recordings and experimental opera. Some of this may interest you, some may not.

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