Liza Lim: Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus Sophie Schafleitner, Lorelei Dowling, Klangforum Wien, Peter Rundel, Stefan Asbury

• Liza Lim (b. 1966): Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus:
• 1 Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: I. Anthropogenic Debris 11:15
• 2 Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: II. Retrograde Inversion 06:52
• 3 Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: III. Autocorrect 04:21
• 4 Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: IV. Transmission 05:02
• 5 Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus: V. Dawn Chorus 12:46
• Liza Lim:
• 6 Axis Mundi 08:08
• 7 Songs Found in Dream 14:08
• Total Runtime 01:02:32

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Liza Lim’s debut on KAIROS includes her monumental new work Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus, which reflects her ongoing artistic reflection of the connection between humans and nature. “When one walks through country with a custodian of the land, one begins to see that every stone, every plant, every inch of earth is named and contains within it whole histories and liturgies of people and ancestors.”

The dreamscape of “song” and “sing- ing” in Aboriginal culture is intimately connected to the land. When one walks through country with a custodian of the land, one begins to see that every stone, every plant, every inch of earth is named ... and contains within it whole histories and liturgies of people and ancestors.

Liza Lim, program note to Songs found in dream: Knowledge may be acquired in many ways, through texts or teaching, through doing, through experience. It may encompass the feel of an instrument or the sensation of a particular sound. From the calligraphy of Japan to the knots of Nordic sailors to the songlines of Aboriginal Australians, Liza Lim has been inspired by alternative ways to create, preserve and transfer knowledge, often through direct sensory rather than intellectual experience.

Rather late in the day, the world is waking up to the destructive power of Western forms of knowledge – the relentless, self-centred drives to acquire, occupy and consume at the expense of a habit- able planet. As noted by the philosopher Timothy Morton, whose work Lim frequently cites, the challenges of climate change and mass extinction require new forms of thinking: a favoured term of his is “hyperobjects”, that is, phenomena that are so large that they may only be known partially and through their effects, like climate change.

These are the subject of Extinction Events and Dawn Chorus (2018) for twelve musicians, one of Lim’s most substantial instrumental works.

Sophie Schafleitner, violin (on tracks 1-5)
Klangforum Wien
Peter Rundel, conductor
Lorelei Dowling, bassoon (on track 6)
Klangforum Wien
Stefan Asbury, conductor (on track 7)

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