Some albums are born in cities, others in the blur of travel. This one grew out of mist-shrouded mornings on Cradle Mountain, where Clinton Green devoted his 2017 residency to seeking new forms of resonance and environmental interplay among ancient forests and remote galleries. On this disc, the boundaries between manmade music and the audible world are frequently, and deliberately, blurred. Each of the four pieces finds Clinton Green adapting his signature turntable constructions—sometimes played outdoors at dawn, sometimes anchored by acoustic objects sourced onsite. The opening track sets the tone with whirring motors, gently abrasive surfaces, and the call of the wilderness marking intervals, as if to remind both artist and audience of the fragile balance between creative intent and natural presence. In “Twin Tigers” and “Thylacine,” kinetic rhythms are alternately disrupted and infused by animal calls—the extinct thylacine’s specter a recurring and haunting theme. The album’s most profound gesture comes in “Lament With Frogs,” where ambient frog song and gallery acoustics circulate against a backdrop of drawn metal and spun vinyl, ultimately suggesting a sonic memorial to creatures and habitats no longer fully accessible to human perception. These tracks are as much documentary as composition, fieldwork as studio artifice. Clinton Green foregrounds process over product, refusing the drama of overt musical statements in favour of cumulative, textured slow build-ups. Throughout, listeners encounter not only the shadow of the vanished thylacine, but the larger mystery of how music and environment shape one another. The limited edition CD, issued in just one hundred copies, serves as an intimate document—a reminder that even in a world of extinction and ecological fragility, attentive listening and the inventive repurposing of discarded technologies can create spaces of memory and renewal. Clinton Green urges the audience to approach these recordings not as a soundtrack to the wild, but as an invitation to inhabit the continually unfolding relationship between sonic invention and environmental presence.
