Sound Samples and Recordings
Long Rigg Beck motion studies
Working on the 'Each Pebble Its Part' sounds last year made me think about trying to edit together short samples of sounds recorded along the course of a stream to give an idea of it through quick, smooth changes - a bit like the old time-lapse film of the London to Brighton train journey (posted on YouTube here) - and these are some pieces I have made from recordings along Long Rigg Beck, the stream in a long, hidden valley up in the Howgill Fells behind Sedbergh. I'm still playing with sample lengths and edit points to get the best balance between smoothness, velocity and hearing the character of each sample.
downstream.mp3 (51", 2MB, 320 Kbps)
upstream.mp3 (1', 2.4MB, 320 Kbps)
downstream fast.mp3 (20", 800KB, 320 Kbps)
upstream fast.mp3 (20", 800KB, 320 Kbps)
Standalone pieces
I'm finally getting one or two shorter studio pieces finished.
AndiChapple_K197_192Kbps.mp3 (10', 14MB, 192 Kbps) - this takes the stretching-things-out technique I've used for a lot of music in the past couple of years and puts the spotlight on it; 10 minutes from two bars of piano is quite a stretch. I tried to see how much I could slow things down but still keep enough sense of change to engage the attention. there are two other bars of piano in the middle for light relief, but they take three and a bit minutes. I'm pretty pleased with this - it's deep, lush, floaty ... but not toothless.
Three Spring Performances, 2009
go to the Three Spring Performances page for sound and video from these gigs.
In The Sparkly Dark, 2008
below are links to MP3 format sound files to do with the In The Sparkly Dark performance:
ITSD_19Dec08_Prelude.mp3 (3', 4MB, 192 Kbps) - some tinkly zooming-through-the-planets electronics and the opening words of Helen Bromley's piece. Electronics by me, words by Helen Leslie Bromley, voices by Emma Watton, Nela Geuer, Jan Harrison and Mark Browne. coughing by pretty much everyone in the audience.
ITSD_19Dec08_StableDoorInDulciJubilo.mp3 (8', 11MB, 192 Kbps) - the Three Wise Persons make it to the stable ... some angelic electronics, the speech choir in full flow. Followed by the lovely old carol 'In Dulci Jubilo'. Electronics by me, words by Helen Leslie Bromley, voices by Emma Watton, Nela Geuer, Jan Harrison, Mark Browne and me, accordion by Phil Bull, piano and darbuka by Colin Blakey.
'Each Pebble Its Part', 2008
below are links to MP3 format sound files to do with the 'Each Pebble Its Part' installation:
EPIP_Sedbergh_excerpt.mp3 - a short (2'08", 3MB) installation recording of 'Each Pebble Its Part' at Ephemeral House in Sedbergh, 22 June 2008.
EPIP_Brighton_excerpt.mp3 - a short (2'24", 3.4MB) installation recording of 'Each Pebble Its Part' at The Basement in Brighton, 5 July 2008.
EPIP_Brighton.mp3 - the full-length (13'45", 19MB) installation recording of 'Each Pebble Its Part' at The Basement in Brighton, 5 July 2008. as well as the other sound pieces installed in the space - Quartet Electronische's 'Quartet Operation', Tim Manning's 'Forever Falling' and Mark Benton's 'Disposium' - you can hear a sound check for Sarah Angliss' 'Machines Not Angels' performance, with Sarah's computer-controlled handbells and a cellist and dulcimer player whose names I don't know.
EPIP_studio.mp3 - a 10-minute, 14MB studio version of a walk down the stones.
these recordings are best listened to on reasonable speakers or headphones to get the detail. the studio version, especially, has a lot of low-end stuff going on.