Author Archives: thesoundplays

In Light – Muted Stories 3

I submitted a piece to and/OAR’s callout “Muted Stories”. It made it into the 3rd compilation, track #6, “In Light”.

Muted Stories (3) | and/OAR

Original call-out (no longer available on their site): https://web.archive.org/web/20210210222706/http://www.and-oar.org/muted_stories_intro_and_guidelines.html

Recurrence – Sounding Nature

I created a piece for the Cities and Memory project “Sounding Nature”.

“Sounding Nature is the biggest ever global exploration of the beautiful sounds of nature, covering 55 countries with almost 500 sounds. The sounds have been reimagined by 250 artists to reflect upon the damage being done to our natural world by human-generated sounds.”

My piece can be found on the map, in Japan, and was based on a field recording of cicadas by Gabriella Disler.

If you have difficulty getting it to work or finding it, I have posted direct links to the sound files further down the page.

Link: http://citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature/

Original recording:

My piece:

Limits

I have released this two-part piece on Bandcamp. A heavily pitch shifted & manipulated field recording captured outside London Bridge station.

tags: experimental, drone, field recording, pitch-shifting, post-apocalyptic, sound art, London

Expanded Radio set on Bandcamp

My tracks for the Expanded Radio 2018 weekend.

Track descriptions:

1. A field recording made outside the Penang Pesta festival, Malaysia, 2017

2. Electronic music from 2009, created using the music tracking program OpenMPT.

3. Someone playing the sax in Peckham Rye park in the rain.

4. Busker and crowd sounds in and around Clink Street, London.

5. Inside the carriage of a Kuala Lumpur Light Rail Transit train.

6. A glitched and frequency-shifted street recording from in and around the Brunswick Centre, London.

7. Electronic music from 2017. Composed using OpenMPT then finished in Ableton Live.

8. My end of term piece for the Experimental Sound Art course held at the Mary Ward Centre in late 2017, taught by Graham Dunning.

Expanded Radio Weekend

I have some of my work playing in the Expanded Radio Weekend which starts at 7pm tonight! “A weekend of creative online radio broadcasting”.

There is a scheduled playlist which runs from 7pm to 12:30am and repeats Saturday, Sunday and Monday. During the daytime, the show randomly selects tracks from submissions.

I have contributed a set of field recordings, music and sound art, this is scheduled for 22:32 each evening (I think). After the weekend I will also make my tracks available for download on this website.

You can listen here: https://expanded.airtime.pro/ and see more information on the Facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/expandedradio. Happy listening!