Didgeridoo
Ive been playing didge since the late 1980s…Today Im working on a video for my didgeridoo playing, music, lessons.
My theme was " The Didge is a drum that I play with my mouth"....as the hook to get people interested.
...explaining the Didgeribone...the simplicity with complexity...the acoustics of straight paralell pipes vs tapered pipes etc.
I mentioned the main man with respect to Didgeribone...Mr Charlie McMahon!
That reminded me of this piece...Ephemeral lakes....and listening to it now...I am instantly taken back to 2MCE-FM in Bathurst NSW Australia...late Sunday evenings in Studio 1 and a programme called Atomosphere...
I presented Atmosphere in the early to mid 1990s...taking over from David Jaques Watson.
It was an ambient music program 'with attitude' ...
I played ephemeral lakes regularly on 'Atmosphere' ...
There are many versions of Ephemeral lakes...Charlies spoken intros followed by the didge create a very evocative piece.
Well worth listeningj to...its all its versions!
https://youtu.be/t8J_kqCmi_Y
Also noted how the didge is part of the Brass Family in formal music taxonomy...its an end blown lip reed aerophone! And the Didge by virtue of William Barton is now firmly part of the Classical realm.
William Barton has brought the timbral, textural, and 'speaking with harmonics' elements of the didge to a new level.
Didge may only be '1 note' but it has the ability to evoke moods and feelings beyond what diatonic and chromatic western instruments can evoke...music in between the semitones!!!
https://youtu.be/Umd4Ulfn2ek
And here is an old old track from me that started out life on open reel 4 track tape…
Its a little ‘muddy’ but has a great kit-drums, percussion, and didge shape, form, and timbre…its one track of 130 tracks that Ive compiled over the last 35 years of recording!
https://www.reverbnation.com/MarcusCampbellorum/song/26051226-1980
Didge from a perspective of rhythm and timbre at
https://youtu.be/m8HNUL9LXQA?si=MW6NyBajUWDPsrRT
Heres my Didge vid…
Mark
