19/06/2025
https://caterpillarrec.bandcamp.com/album/raindrop-shadows
Caterpillar and Splitrec are proud to announce
Raindrop Shadows
Mareike Dobewall – Caterpillar 14. Release date 27/4/2025.
2024 Sydney: It rained a lot. In her studio at the New Art Residency at Newington College, Mareike Dobewall observed the rain slide down the windows, as she listened to the rain through the thin glass - outside on the streets and above her on the roof. She writes;
"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 months that Mareike had been in Sydney, she was a regular contributor to the Splinter Orchestra, a large scale improvising group that meets weekly to play together. Mareike asked five wind players of the orchestra to perform her scores, Jim Denley – flutes, Uma Volkmer – trumpet, Laura Altman – clarinet, Ellen Kirkwood – voice and little instruments, Andrew Fedorovitch – alto sax. Mareike writes;
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.
4 track album
