This chapter in Unexplained Sounds' "Sound Mapping" series turns its ear to Australia, a continent whose sonic expressions are as vast, isolated, and idiosyncratic as its geography. The artists featured in this compilation explore a wide terrain of auditory possibilities, from shimmering drones and granular textures to fractured electronics and abstract field manipulations.

These works seem to breathe with a spatial consciousness, attentive to both the expanse and the minutiae of sound. Some artists draw from the natural world capturing insect rhythms, wind distortions, or the resonance of empty spaces, while others build synthetic architectures that pulse and collapse in unpredictable rhythms.

There is a tension between the organic and the constructed, the intimate and the remote. This is a snapshot of the Australian experimental scene; a selection of singular voices navigating sound beyond genre, tradition, or commercial expectation.

Features: Browning Mummery, Alexandra Spence, Wythchings, Tuonela, David Whatson, Amby Downs, Automating, Lost Ether, Matt Warren, Ergonomic Sound Office, TAK / Todd Anderson-Kunert, Astral Flight, Von Helfenstein, Bushranger, and Scientia.

Ltd x 100 copies (CD proper) in a 6-panel matt-laminate digipak.