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Field Study

by Veda Hille

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1.
Carnage 00:52
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2.
Plants 02:59
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3.
Teem 00:32
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4.
Birdsong 02:36
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5.
Evolver 04:18
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6.
Carnage Reprise 00:59
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7.
Bloom 02:03
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8.
Yukon Ho! 02:39
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9.
One Inch Of Linen 04:24
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10.
Tuktoyaktuk Hymn 03:34
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11.
Observations: Plants 01:48
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12.
Observations: Water 02:42
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13.
Arctic Adaptations 03:17
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14.
Conclusion: Darkness 04:17
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15.
Conclusion: Light 02:25
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16.
Song Of The Little Wind 02:25
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about

This record is the result of a year's indiscriminate research of interesting facts. I love to examine things. When I was ten i had a microscope. I looked at skin, bugs, plants, blood. The World in a Drop of Water. When a friend recently suggested I write about what amazes me, I remembered my early days, in love with naive scientific detail. Songs 1-6 are subtitled Songs About Science and Nature That Are Secretly Also About My Family. I live with a volcano and an edible mammal, and together we make like the protozoa under the microscope. We all like owls a lot these days too. Songs 8-15 are subtitled Yukon Suite, and are an accounting of a favourable journey I took in July 2000. The Yukon Arts Centre ferried twelve Canadian artists around the northern territories for three weeks (flying in planes and helicopters! hiking in the treeless mountains! rafting through grizzly territory! glaciers! heartfelt drinking and dancing!) and then asked everyone to make something of the trip. I was lucky to be there, and these songs are about what happened and what I saw. But really it's all about death. Or really it's all about teeming life. A lot of it is about plants. I wish I had written a song about plankton. I didn't write the last song, it's a very good song. It says "don't miss the plums in the autumn, that's when they're ripe my boy. Let the mighty storm bring you fear, the little wind bring you joy". After a year of winding research and fieldwork, I offer The Song of the Little Wind as my concluding thesis.

Veda Hille, February 14, 2001

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released September 16, 2001

Field Study was made by Veda Hille (musician) and David Travers-Smith (engineer) in January and February of 2001. The piano and voice were recorded at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre, with additional tracking, mixing, and shaking at Lemonloaf, Canterbury, and Death-of-a-Starling.

Veda was aided by vocal contributions on birdsong by Bessie Wapp, DB Boyko, and Christine Duncan. Oral and manual whistling by Martin Tielli. Ford Pier and Martin Walton played electric guitar and lap steel on Little Wind. Christof Migone donated some clicks for bloom.

The pictures are stills from Shawn Chappelle's video that goes with this music. Brian Morgan was the designer and typographiste, and Stephanie Aitken served as aesthetic overseer.

Field Study is dedicated to Eileen Hille and Tess Fenger.

Originally released September 16, 2001.

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Veda Hille Vancouver, British Columbia

Born August 11, 1968 into a nice family in Vancouver, Canada. Started playing piano in 1974. Childhood interests included plants, books, microscopes, science fiction, and psychiatry. Attended art college in the late 80′s and started writing music. Now makes records, writes musical theatre, scores films, teaches songwriting, tours, and generally keeps busy. See full discography at Veda's website. ... more

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