RAINDROP SHADOWS by Mareike Dobewall

In 2024, while in residence at the New Art Residency at Newington College in Sydney, it rained a lot. I observed the rain slide down the windows of my studio, as I listened to the rain through the thin glass - outside on the streets and above me on the roof.
When attempting to trace the raindrops on the windows through transparent paper, I noticed I was drawing lines and not, as one would expect, shapes of drops. Through the transparent paper, I could only see the reflections of the environment in the raindrops —as lines of light and shadows — and this is how the visual score for Raindrop Shadows came to be.
This album is the echo of that quiet dialogue between rain and glass, light and shadow.
Raindrop Shadows is written for five wind instruments. The process of finding the music was not translation, but transformation — letting the lines result in intimate, nearly tactile expression. A sonic surface with the touch of rain. The musicians breathe absence and presence. The music listens like weather.

Mareike Dobewall

Caterpillar is a digital sub-label of Splitrec. A platform for releases by Sydney-based artists and collaborators affiliated with Splinter Orchestra.

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