Bristol

Fear of flying: Bristol airport

” As I recorded this, absorbing in my headphones the wall of sound emanating from the plane, I considered how if the “broadband” noise of the planes engines contains amplitudes in all frequency ranges, then it must be possible to break them down and isolate just a few, before reconstructing them into that hellish roar.”

World Listening Day: giving a voice to water

“I was interested in how the drips can start off very fast, like a blur, and then over a few minutes, slow right down. This gave me the idea of recording vocal interpretations of these phases of different speeds, and overlaying them.I pitched each voice across an octave of a whole tone scale, a rootless and particularly watery-sounding scale.”