a discussion about: What's your favourite recorded sound?
in the group: Sounds of Australia
My favourite sound in the 'Sounds of Australia’ collection is the Theme from 'Blue Hills’. It takes me straight back to childhood summers at the beach in remote Victoria listening to country ABC radio. It’s like time travelling and gives me goose bumps to hear it.
Fanny Cochrane Smith, sings like a night bird. Her voice is haunting. The crackle on the 1903 wax cylander is ever present and her song seems to emerge from a long deep past. Knowing that she and Truganinni were two of Tasmania’s last surviving matriarchs is my answer to why the recording is so heavy with sadness.
I’ve always admired Ernest Shackleton’s amazing heroism and leadership – or at least how he was portrayed in the film Shackleton’s Antarctic Adventure at the Melbourne IMAX! Hearing a wax cylinder recording of his voice from 1910 made only four years before the now-legendary 1914-1918 expedition portrayed in the film is quite thrilling, knowing now as we do, of what was ahead.
My favourite 'Sound’ at the moment is Vic Simms, an indigenous country singer who recorded his album, The Loner, in one hour, while in Bathurst jail in 1973. And it still sounds fresh today, as good as any Australian country music you’ll hear. The album is hard to find but Vic Simms and The Loner are definitely worth checking out.
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