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noosa sunrise - sleeve notes
Noosa Sunrise (album) - 2010 01) Noosa National Park (09:37) All tracks written and produced by Michael Shanahan. Keyboards, programming, strings, percussion & wind by Michael Shanahan. If you would like a studio quality recording of the album on Digipak CD complete with proper sleeve notes, then take a visit to the shop where it is now available. Background This music is based on and inspired by field recordings made while traveling through the Sunshine Coast region of Queensland, Australia in 2006. The music 01) Noosa National Park (09:37) The field recordings were made in Noosa National Park close to sunset. The music is inspired by those recordings. 02) Breakfast in Paradise (11:16) Field recordings were made on a hill overlooking the Sunshine Coast area of South East Queensland. Music results from this. There are vague sounds of us having breakfast with friends in the background. 03) Noosa Sunrise (12:35) The music is sunrise at Noosa. The light was wonderful and the music picks up as the sun climbs into the morning sky to begin another glorious day. 04) Rain Forest Aviary (07:52) Field recordings were made at Australia Zoo in the Rain Forest Aviary. Occasionally you can hear a gate closing, that's the sound of people entering and leaving the aviary. The music is inspired by the place and moves towards a point that largely concerns it's founder. 05) Eumundi Markets (04:48) Ah, Eumundi Markets *sighs*. Field recordings made while strolling through the markets and music inspired by the magic. 06) Alexandra Bay Track (13:12) In many ways this is a continuation of the first track 'Noosa National Park' in that the field recordings were made on the same evening at the end of the track where it reaches the water at Alexandra Bay. It was almost dark at this stage and the sounds are starting to become night. The music is inspired by the place. It also allowed me to explore a slightly more techno approach to the piece, just for the fun of it. It ends with the closing of a garage door belonging to a dear friend in who's house we were invited to stay. Technical The field recordings were all completed on a Sony minidisc with Sony microphones. Once back in the studio an initial set of recordings were made using Soundforge & Audacity to edit the field sounds. These were later developed into full scale recordings for live performance using Ableton Live. I performed the music as mentioned earlier in Transylvania and did a soundboard recording, wrote a new version and performed it at the Sirius Gallery, Cobh, Ireland and then wrote a third version of the music in studio. The results of all three versions of the music were synthesised together to form a new fourth version of the music which was then mixed and mastered. Along the way I used: Keyboards: various m-audio controllers Thank You Kindly Thanks Technical thanks to Damo & Stav & various people on music production web sites. Cheers to all the folks who have attended my performances over the last few years and provided feedback, also the people who've allowed me to share my music at various festivals and spaces around Europe. Thanks also to folks at the Waterford City Council Arts Office who helped finance this project. Here Ya Go Dreamy stuff, kick back and enjoy
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