Swimming Pool, Armidale

from twelve fantasias for solo recorder by Rodney Waterman

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Fantasia 7; I tutored and performed at the Orpheus Music Festival 'Call of the Four Winds', Armidale NSW (2000). One of my student tutorial groups performed a piece of mine, Pebbles; a very minimalist, hypnotic and repetitive small recorder ensemble composition that imitates pebbles falling into running water. It began in the gymnasium, but then students paraded, always playing, from the gymnasium to the swimming pool, audience following. They filed into the shallow end of the pool and slowly began to walk from that end towards the deeper end. As the plastic recorders, still being played, began to dip into the water, they inadvertently produced fascinating glissandi and effects, not unlike a slide whistle. At the end, the students ‘disappeared’, recorder and all, under water. My improvisation in this fantasia refers at times thematically to Pebbles and actually uses a real (analog) bucket of water to partly submerge my plastic recorder while recording.
• Alto Recorder (plastic) in f' (A440), bucket of water
Original video at: youtu.be/n8m_6tZlMYs

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from twelve fantasias for solo recorder, released November 2, 2020

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Rodney Waterman Eltham, Australia

Rodney is an Australian musician who specialises in the recorder. His repertoire is eclectic, with a particular interest in improvisation. In 2001, his album, Água e Vinho, with guitarist Doug de Vries, was released by ECM Records, Germany. His latest recording is an independently released improvised duo album with recorder player Ryan Williams; 'Venus Bay Fireside Sessions.' ... more

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