{"product_id":"rachel-shearer-te-oro-o-te-ao-vinyl","title":"Rachel Shearer - Te Oro o te Ao (Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp\u003eDeluxe Gatefold LP, cut at 45 RPM, tip-on jacket with embossed black paper wrap and black ink pigment foil stamping. Mounted inner booklet and printed inner sleeve. For over three decades, Aotearoa \/ New Zealand based sound artist and composer \u003cstrong\u003eRachel Shearer\u003c\/strong\u003e has researched and engaged with a wide range of Māori and Western practices in listening to the Earth. On the first full length album released under her name, \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTe Oro o te Ao\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (the resounding of the world) Shearer has created a bold work of sonic dreaming and remembrance. A personal realization channeled through the Māori concept of whakapapa; embracing the belief that the whole of creation, past\/present\/future is a dynamic interconnected movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith field recordings, electronics, and voice, Shearer creates immersive analogs of earthly processes that move like tumbling avalanches and crashing waves. Subterranean volcanic activity transmutes into super-heated air rising into frequencies beyond human hearing. Shearer posits that consciousness, like the environment, is not a closed system; that the mind is an ecosystem where our thoughts are the ‘flora’ and ‘fauna’ and the perception of sound vibrations in the material world is a gateway to metaphysical realms.\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Te Oro o Te Ao\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was first realized as an immersive eight-channel sound installation made in response to a close listening to the earth. It was also released as a limited artist’s acetate edition of 10. Thin Wrist is pleased to present Te Oro o Te Ao in a vinyl and digital edition mastered by \u003cstrong\u003eRashad Becker\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eClunk Berlin\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHoused in a tip-on gatefold jacket with embossed black paper stock, ink pigment foil stamping, with a mounted booklet in the inner gatefold and printed inner sleeves. Pressed at Optimal, Germany. Rachel Shearer has investigated sound as a medium through a wide range of sonic practices — installations, composing, performing, writing, as well as collaborating as a sound designer and composer for moving image and live performance events. She has received numerous public commissions for sound art including the permanent nine-channel sound installation \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Flooded Mirror \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eon the Auckland waterfront. She has been active as an experimental musician since the late 1980’s and has released material with labels \u003cstrong\u003eXpressway\u003c\/strong\u003e (NZ), \u003cstrong\u003eFlying Nun\u003c\/strong\u003e (NZ), \u003cstrong\u003eEcstatic Peace\u003c\/strong\u003e (US), \u003cstrong\u003eCorpus Hermeticum \u003c\/strong\u003e(NZ), \u003cstrong\u003eFamily Vineyard\u003c\/strong\u003e (US) among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003eTRACKLIST\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e1. Waha\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e2. Pounamu Becoming Crystal Part I\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e3. Pounamu Becoming Crystal Part II \/ Wiriwiri\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e4. Ao\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rachel Shearer","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":67883659297012,"sku":"TW W-LP","price":73.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0450\/3165\/3527\/files\/R-38795421-1792687033-8883.jpg?v=1792975624","url":"https:\/\/www.flyingnun.co.nz\/products\/rachel-shearer-te-oro-o-te-ao-vinyl","provider":"Flying Nun ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}