Recordings

Playlist:

Selected recordings:

Pencils and screws scraped on piano strings, some of the broken keys pressed and a handful of screws thrown at the inside of the piano. In the background, children playing in an adjacent school yard. A short improvisation on an abandoned upright piano in the backyard at the now demolished Irwell Valley campus of Salford Unversity.
The Piano and Objects recording slowed down by 12 times, remixed, stretched and re-pitched using computer software into something foreboding, with some added bass notes from an electric piano recorded in Italy.
A “sonic review” of an exhibition by David Lynch at The Photographer’s Gallery, London in 2015. The work was dark, somewhat bleak industrial scenes in black and white. This piece is a collage of sounds recorded on cassette recorder while viewing the exhibition, walking through the gallery and standing in front of the pictures while Lynch’s own dark, ambient soundtrack drifts through the space.
From the album Nervous System. Sounds from old steam train records and a cymbal with objects, with loops and delays. Mostly live recording with some over-dubs.
A mix of two simultaneous recordings made near Todmorden, West Yorkshire, during a thunderstorm with heavy rain. One recording from inside the room next to an open window and one from a contact microphone inside an empty food can on the outside window ledge. At one point lightning can be heard striking a tree.
Composed of samples taken from a collection of records, released in the UK and Netherlands of bird songs recorded in the wild. The composition includes parts of some of the records that capture ambient sounds as well as birds such as a river and church bells in the background.