New Day cd comprises a series of morning pieces designed to celebrate the dawning of the new day in various locations around Australia. They were created as a personal response to to the songs, rhythms, colours and sounds existing with in each particular sound environment
New Day was originally made for ABC fm radio to coincide with the Sydney Olympic games in 2000
You may hear a 30 second snippet of all the tracks - just by clicking the (play) button; click it again to stop the track
Several of the tracks are available as full track downloads - just click the 'track download' signs
1 .. Cooktown - northern Queensland dawn .. tropical beach; parrots chatting in the dunes above the beach; quiet morning becoming hot; acquamarine sea - 5:16
2 .. Daintree - northern Queensland rainforest near mangroves; intense with crickets, a bird starts its song - 5:17
3 .. Ramingining - Arnhemland, forest dawn; intense and dense in appearance and sound .. mosquitoes, becoming humid - 5:10 (available as track download)
4 .. Coomalie - Northern Territory billabong (cut off creek) dawn; birds, fish jump; clear new day settles into a gentle rhythm - 5:07
5 .. Alice springs - northern pre-dawn .. still dark: pied butcher bird and trucks! galahs (parrot family) wake up and join in - 5:13
6 .. Angahook - southern Victoria dawn overlooking eucalyptus valley; parrots, currawongs, thrush and crows .. water trickling - 5:13
7 .. Western port - southern Victoria winter sea, cold and foggy .. wattle birds in banksia trees above beach - 5:10
9 .. Toolangi lyrebird - Victoria winter on mountain top; spectacular (imitative) bird song - 5:13
10 .. Errinunundra - eastern Australian eucalypt forest; pristine morning after overnight rain .. crickets, frogs, gang gang cockatoos - 5:06 (available as track download)
11 .. Aragunnu - south coast, NSW ‘old spirit’ fills this place .. bell birds,currawong, crickets, eucalypts - 5:25 (available as track download)
12 .. Cania gorge - Queensland dawn .. busy waterhole in dry open woodland; crows caw .. and a cow runs through! - 5:28
13 .. Barmah forest - Victoria/NSW border; the Murray/Tongala river; early morning thunder rolls away growling, fish jump, corellas (parrots) wake and ‘swirl’; frogs and crickets chatter - 5:20
14 .. Badja - southern NSW cool morning; wet grass, small creek runs over rocks .. shrike thrush calls, magpies in background - 5:07
'Australian sound environments are very diverse in their content Pieces may be as simple as birds singing, people talking, engines, storms, frogs and crickets; they may include instrumental pieces played in response to these sounds The spirit of place may be heard in its sounds
(I) travelled to fifteen different places throughout Australia recording the natural sounds of wildlife, water and vegetation of the region at daybreak .. then writing original music to be blended into these soundscapes.'
The result is a striking celebration of music in nature. These fifteen pieces represent tropical north Queensland, the Northern Territory, coastal New South Wales and the Victorian highlands, filled with the sounds of gang gang cockatoos, wattle birds, corellas, jumping fish, frogs, crickets and a thunderstorm
'Australian sound environments are very diverse in their content 
