This month’s mixtape is now online.
Around the back of Temple Meads station in Bristol there are rows of newly built office and apartment blocks. Whether it was unpredictable or badly planned for, the shape and materials of these buildings seems to be responsible for incredibly loud and intense whistling tones that occur whenever the wind picks up a bit.
This mixtape features a set of recordings of this soundmark, combined into duets with woodwind samples I’ve been playing with (courtesy of Spectres by Slate+Ash). There’s also some diary field recordings from Liverpool and more sketches from work in progress music, all rapidly and roughly woven together.
The track listing below is only a set of pointers, it is the overlaps I’m really interested in, where the combination of existing places create other possible worlds.
( I’ve also written a short text expanding my thoughts on these counterfactual soundscapes which you can read here ).
Enjoy
0’00 wind/woodwind duet
2’30 historial marker
3’26 spectral rooms, Liverpool
3’50 rowesound / spectral birds
6’00 Catholic Cathedral, Liverpool
6’20 Anglican Cathedral, Liverpool
7’14 sketch 89 part 1
7’33 spectral birds, Crosby
9’29 papermakers above/below water
11’34 wind/synth duet 1
15’06 sketch 96
18’45 spectral waves, Ise city
19’34 slowect (sketch)
20’00 travel plans, between Crewe + Stafford
22’41 wind/synth duet 2
24’39 sketch 89 part 2
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