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The Synchronicity Project (2022​-​2023)

by Ross Bolleter

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    CD I
    Sylvain Roux - flutes | Ross Bolleter - 5 ruined pianos
    CD II
    Antoinette Carrier - 3 ruined pianos | Ross Bolleter - 5 ruined pianos
    CD III
    Eduardo Cossio - zithers, phone, laptop, speaker | Ross Bolleter - ruined pianos

    Recording: Michael Terren, Sylvain Roux, Antoinette Carrier and Eduardo Cossio
    Audio production: Michael Terren
    Additional audio production: Anthony Cormican, WARPS/FrontEar Productions

    All musical contributions copyright their respective owners, 2023
    Front photograph (Tree Fire Hollow) by Eduardo Cossio
    Back (Tree Fire Hollow) and inside (from Sky serie) photograph by Antoinette Carrier
    Dark Shine photo Tree Fire Hollow, copyright , June 1, 2023

    My thanks to Vincent Capes for his fine artwork and production which graces The Synchronicity Project 2022-2023

    Recording: Michael Terren, Antoinette Carrier and Eduardo for their recordings.
    To Michael Terren for his audio production of the series
    My thanks to Vincent Capes for his fine artwork which graces The Synchronicity Project, 2022-2023

    3 CD | 179:12 | THO052
    Thödol 2023

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1.
1-1 Closer than Breathing 30:08
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1-2 True Time 30:13
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3.
2-1 Compound Fracture 28:43
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4.
2-2 Living Daylights 29:30
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5.
3-1 Standing Wave 30:29
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6.
3-2 La Compañia del Otro 30:06
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about

In 1989, Ross Bolleter devised the Synchronicity Project: where musicians improvised simultaneously across Australia – and indeed the world – without hearing each other. These pieces cast a net for synchronicities. The project also produced a series of radiophonic works. The second of these, That Time/Simulplay 2 – an intuitive piece for two musicians on opposite sides of a continent, playing at precisely the same time but unable to hear each other, while the radio audience heard them both– involved Ryszard Ratajczak playing double bass in Studio 210 of abc fm, Sydney, with Bolleter playing two pianos – one of them prepared – in abc's Studio 621, Perth. That Time/Simulplay 2 was released on Bolleter’s album Crow Country (Pogus 21021-02, New York) in 2000. Bolleter and Rowan Hammond wrote an article on That Time/Simulplay 2: “Improvising with synchronistic experiences” in NMA 9, Melbourne, 1991:
www.rainerlinz.net/NMA/ repr/Synchronistic.html

In 2021, Ross Bolleter invited Sylvain Roux for an improvisation at precisely the same time – Sylvain at 9.00 am in Razac de Saussignac, approximately 80 kms inland from Bordeaux, in the Périgord region of France, and me at 4.00 pm in Bayswater, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia—more than 14,000 kms away.
They improvised for 30 minutes. Neither of them could hear the other. There were no prior specifications as to instrumentation, genre, or style and approach.

Compound Fracture is a collaboration between composers and improvisers Antoinette Carrier and Ross Bolleter, who live on opposite sides of “the compound” – about 3.3 kms apart – in Bedford and Bayswater, suburbs of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. The railway line from Perth to Midland runs through the middle of “the compound.” Again, they couldn’t hear each other, and now the listener can hear thel both. These pieces cast a net for synchronistic experiences in March 2021.

Dark Shine is a synchronous improvisation between Eduardo Cossio & Ross Bolleter. It took place on January the 24th, 2023, from 9.00 pm to 10.00 pm. Eduardo Cossio performed and recorded in Inglewood; Ross Bolleter in Bayswater. Inglewood and Bayswater are suburbs of Perth, Western Australia.

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released July 7, 2023

CD I
Sylvain Roux - flutes | Ross Bolleter - 5 ruined pianos
CD II
Antoinette Carrier - 3 ruined pianos | Ross Bolleter - 5 ruined pianos
CD III
Eduardo Cossio - zithers, phone, laptop, speaker | Ross Bolleter - ruined pianos

Recording: Michael Terren, Sylvain Roux, Antoinette Carrier and Eduardo Cossio
Audio production: Michael Terren
Additional audio production: Anthony Cormican, WARPS/FrontEar Productions

All musical contributions copyright their respective owners, 2023
Front photograph (Tree Fire Hollow) by Eduardo Cossio
Back (Tree Fire Hollow) and inside (from Sky serie) photograph by Antoinette Carrier
Dark Shine photo Tree Fire Hollow, copyright , June 1, 2023

My thanks to Vincent Capes for his fine artwork and production which graces The Synchronicity Project 2022-2023

Recording: Michael Terren, Antoinette Carrier and Eduardo for their recordings.
To Michael Terren for his audio production of the series
My thanks to Vincent Capes for his fine artwork which graces The Synchronicity Project, 2022-2023

3 CD | 179:12 | THO052
Thödol 2023

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