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One of several manifestations of Anne Norman's composition
"Whispered Shadows" (the original solo piece is featured in the album "Beneath the Surface"). This is part of Anne's "Duos for One" oeuvre... in this case a Quartet for Two where both players sing and play simultaneously in many sections of the piece. The score also indicates a few short sections of improvisation for both the violinist and the shakuhachi player.

"Far Below Me" features excerpts from a poem by Anne Norman.

Another duo of shakuhachi and bass koto with related material exists, as yet, not recorded.

An article about this composition entitled "Ricochet" may be read on Anne's Patreon site: www.patreon.com/AnneMNorman
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Far below me, sooty-oyster-catchers wheel across the shallows,
orange beaks and black backs stark against a sea of foam.
Like sheets of living lace, white waves advance,
dissolving, dispersing, retreating…
endlessly inundated by the next fizzing bolt of intricate lacework,
rolled out for inspection.
I’m captivated...
mesmerized by wrinkles of translucent filigree.

骨 hone, 葉 happa, 石 ishi, 響 hibiki,
買 kai, 種 tane, 羽 hane, 小枝 koeda.
I found a bone, a leaf, a stone, an echo
and a shell, a seed, a twig, a bone, a feather.

Faraway people walk to the golden sky,
their footprints — stitches
tacked around a scalloped hem of blinding silver.
Only spindly-legged shadows remain
as briny tongues lick the shore clean.

骨、葉、石、響、買、種、羽、小枝。
Bone, leaf, stone, shell, seed, twig, bone, feather, echo.
Shadow!

credits

from ensō ~ shakuhachi, violin, viola, vox, released January 13, 2017
shakuhachi and spoken word - Anne Norman
violin - Emily Sheppard

Recorded by Al Future at The Chapel, Hobart 2020

photo by Daniel Haley, taken inside a burnt out stump of a huge of eucalypt in the Tarkine, 2015.

The score of this work is available from the Australian Music Archive: www.australianmusiccentre.com.au/product/far-below-me-quartet-for-two-shakuhachi-voice-and-violin-voice

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Anne M Norman Melbourne, Australia

Anne is a shakuhachi player performing in a wide range of music. Anne trained in Japan in 3 lineages with Nakamura Shindo, Tajima Tadashi and Yamaguchi Goro. She has played since 1986 (following 14 years of playing silver flute). Some of Anne's albums are available as Compact Disks.
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