tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70879166295435051322024-03-18T21:16:27.001-07:00taongapuoroAlistair Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852755552209109631noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087916629543505132.post-72315981988165098392013-07-17T17:32:00.000-07:002013-07-17T17:32:16.988-07:00Rakiura - Hummel Remix<iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 42px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/track=489470209/size=small/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="http://alfraser.bandcamp.com/track/rakiura-hummel-remix">Rakiura - Hummel Remix by Andy Hummel/Al Fraser</a></iframe>Alistair Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852755552209109631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087916629543505132.post-75453514517640452722013-03-14T15:10:00.000-07:002013-03-14T15:10:15.625-07:00Rakiura album soundtrack<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" height="355" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/album=3713216334/size=grande2/bgcol=FFFFFF/linkcol=4285BB/" style="display: block; height: 355px; position: relative; width: 300px;" width="300"><a href="http://alfraser.bandcamp.com/album/rakiura">Rakiura by Al Fraser</a></iframe>
Alistair Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852755552209109631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087916629543505132.post-47147967111516742742012-03-07T13:38:00.002-08:002012-03-07T19:19:18.067-08:00Rōria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFsbYZ0_XvVNpHGWOeka3pXh5ioBRPqunxXySoC8iZHU0E7UYJ5j-iwx3TvpnbPYPDqIIVtQFYMI52SHQ9IaAcHsJiI93DQYKqpOI6d4jE5_DSkSDdjOw8LJbQ7H3WEDYyrWux5GU0xI/s1600/ro%CC%84ria.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMFsbYZ0_XvVNpHGWOeka3pXh5ioBRPqunxXySoC8iZHU0E7UYJ5j-iwx3TvpnbPYPDqIIVtQFYMI52SHQ9IaAcHsJiI93DQYKqpOI6d4jE5_DSkSDdjOw8LJbQ7H3WEDYyrWux5GU0xI/s320/ro%CC%84ria.JPG" width="320" /></a></div>This instrument is played across the mouth and produces a popping and twanging sound that resonates through the players jaw.<br />
The curved instrument is a rib bone, possibly from a pig, that I found on the beach by Duck Creek. The two in an X shape are strips of kareao or supplejack from the bush behind Hill Homestead.Alistair Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852755552209109631noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087916629543505132.post-67246416946431257922012-03-01T19:26:00.002-08:002012-03-01T19:34:17.909-08:00Environmental improvisation: Little Hellfire Beach: pt1the tide gave me just over an hour to record in this 12m deep 6m hight cave.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dog rattle</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Purerehua rakau rata (made from beach find)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recording setup in tidal access cave at Little Hellfire Beach</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recording setup at Duck Creek near the Homestead Woolshed</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recording dawn chorus outside Hill Homestead</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Koauau rimurimu. This is the result of drying the stipe for 10 months.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Working in the Homestead workshop.</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Alistair Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852755552209109631noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087916629543505132.post-49628345232460695742012-01-08T14:47:00.000-08:002012-01-08T14:51:36.326-08:00Mason Bay, Rakiura December 2011 - UpdateI've completed my time at Mason Bay, Rakiura/Stewart Island and now Im busy editing sound recordings and tidying up loose ends.<br />
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Here are some of the instruments I made December 2011.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Putorino tutu rakau (kanohi (faces) based on pendant artifact found on Centre Island Fouveux Strait held in Otago Museum)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Panguru tutu rakau (with rata beater). Inspired by description in Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori : Beattie of southern instrument<br />
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</tbody></table>Alistair Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852755552209109631noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7087916629543505132.post-60664080166041854902011-06-12T23:47:00.000-07:002011-06-28T15:39:38.465-07:00Second Mason Bay trip. April 2-16thThis trip I concentrated on making. Here are some examples of what I made.<br />
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This is a reconstruction of a soapstone karanga manu that was found on Rarotoka (Centre Island) in Foveaux Strait. The original is in Otago Museum (D31.760). I followed the same method of construction as the karanga manu I made on the first trip and used nails I found in the Homestead workshop for the relief carving. It's about 7cm long. Thanks to Rob Thorne for the use of his notes on this taoka.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I used the below hand/twist drill to drill the holes in the above porutu toroa. The drill stem is made from mānuka with pakohe/argellite drill points. Its takes about 4 mins to drill one wenewene hole in the toroa wing bone.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6MQyP0fZL3E9fzs8l1SVfljJwqeI9Umz5XzBjnHZT2I9Se2eSfi4CmKQX1qy_XYTuJBTXy3KxNAxujd7r4ti9mOh54Z_2hh-ZQvDK4gZ6W9twJ3UomvFjD0CyDQ17UUxNxhjIUjST2iQ/s1600/SAM_9307.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6MQyP0fZL3E9fzs8l1SVfljJwqeI9Umz5XzBjnHZT2I9Se2eSfi4CmKQX1qy_XYTuJBTXy3KxNAxujd7r4ti9mOh54Z_2hh-ZQvDK4gZ6W9twJ3UomvFjD0CyDQ17UUxNxhjIUjST2iQ/s320/SAM_9307.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">This pūtōrino is made from rakau tutu, a larger woodier tutu. It plays very well. The word pūtōrino is used to describe a traditional instrument by southern sources in Beattie, but their description of the instrument varies with the northern pūtōrino which is what this example is modeled on. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig0JjkjJQmrrdjBrsPVckJt1LyU9clu5ec_8lYSJnrQlhRgqp9vW9z5r46gi4q5n5E952KrwFrnwQlTpa5FFyorosGufE-qFOr0nQwrbFxBnxOcurh1IRtE2E2tIbaZBWbvwdc0UhoPx0/s1600/SAM_9315.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240px" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig0JjkjJQmrrdjBrsPVckJt1LyU9clu5ec_8lYSJnrQlhRgqp9vW9z5r46gi4q5n5E952KrwFrnwQlTpa5FFyorosGufE-qFOr0nQwrbFxBnxOcurh1IRtE2E2tIbaZBWbvwdc0UhoPx0/s320/SAM_9315.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">I was lucky enough to get hold of some pūnui (būnui southern dialect) that is very rare on Rakiura and only found in private gardens. It is common on the offshore islands and was used to inflate the poha bags used to store mutton birds. As it is hollow it is possible to easily make a kōauau from pūnui and when talking to Phillip Smith, a local mutton birder among other things, he said they used to make flutes from it as children. He warned that pūnui can have laxative properties if played as a kōauau too much! </span></span></div><div style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: initial; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 10px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">I’m off back to Rakiura the first two weeks of April so I will keep you posted what I make next!</span><br />
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