Into The Music

Since 2002 Ros Dunlop, an Australian clarinettist and music educator, has travelled to East Timor seeking out and recording traditional music -- music under threat of extinction because of invasion, occupation, and the discontinuity with the past.

The Timorese are a highly musical people with a diversity of musical expression around the tiny and now fledgling nation. The program weaves musical threads from the past to the present day, with voice and instruments ranging from leaf and ankle bells to guitar and violin.

Producer
Robyn Ravlich

Sound engineer
Stephen Tilley

Music Details

Field recordings by Ros Dunlop

Field recordings by Robyn Ravlich

X(1999)
Martin Wesley-Smith
CD X Ros Dunlop
Great White Noise
GWN 004

Stimmung
K. Stockhausen
Song Company
ABC Recording

Kdadalak
Trad. Lyrics Francisco Borja da Costa
Remember East Timor - Mary McKillop East Timorese Singers
No number

O Hele le
Trad. Lyrics by Francisco Borja Costa
Cinque do Oriente
Concert for East Timor - Millennium Choir
Boite 008

Further Information

Tekee Tokee Tomak Music recovery project

Ros Dunlop information

Information on Tais weaving tradition

Publications

Title: Mar Meu, My Sea of Timor
Author: Gusmão,Xanana
Publisher: Granito Editores e Livreiros, Lisbon