Bittersweet farewell

<div>"Voyages on large bodies of water used to be more complicated than today, since water not only being the life-giver also is connected to death and peril. Being away on a sea voyage could and still can involve being away from loved ones for a very long time, and therein a farewell can include both anticipation for the travels and expecting a longing for the loved ones. To embark is therefore in a sense a bittersweet farewell. <br /> <br /> "This piece is in itself a voyage, it starts building some anticipation, climaxing in a sweet melody but is later transformed into something more bittersweet and involves a farewell in the end. You can almost imagine standing looking at the ship ever so slowly leaving shore and watching it disappear towards the horizon, while at the same time seeing other boats coming and going.<br /> <br /> "This recording is based on sounds of waves by the Giudecca canal boat traffic next to San Basilio cruise terminal in Venice, Italy. <br /> <br /> "The music was recorded on a Steinway C by layering some chord structures, a bassline and a melody and later rearranging everything in Ableton Live."<br /> <br /> San Basilio, Venice reimagined by Stefan Klaverdal.</div>

00:05:40

Venice at the Cruise Terminal

<div> A recording taken from the jetty at the end of Venice's Cruise Terminal, where we can hear more of the heavier boat traffic that zips back and forth from the mainland and from Giudecca to the main Venetian island. <br /> <br /> Boat traffic chopping up the water creates more significant splashing and waves here than elsewhere in Venice due to the size of the space and the larger boat traffic.<br /> <br /> Recorded by Cities and Memory. </div>

00:08:26

Nocturnos - Mata da Margaraça VIII

<div>Recording made in the Serra do Açor Protected Landscape, in the interior of Portugal, during one night in October 2023. Rain, thunderstorms, nocturnal animals or wind, mark this soundscape, the source of the sound identity of this protected landscape.<br /> <br /> Recorded by Luis Antero.</div>

00:25:03

Serra do Acor

<div>"The recording appears to be the sound of someone in a kitchen or near a fire preparing and then cooking food. I included ambient guitar and noisy drone synth to accompany the crackling and boiling sounds. The guitar I used has a broken pickup, which is thin and buzzy but adds an intentional lo-fi quality to the piece, almost like it’s emitting from an old radio in the cooking area."<br />  <br /> Serra do Acor, Portugal reimagined by Jeff Brown.</div>

00:19:58

The Tower of Babel

<div>The sound of "Babel" by Cildo Meireles in the Tate Modern - the catalogue description reads: <br /> <br /> "Babel 2001 is a large-scale sculptural installation that takes the form of a circular tower made from hundreds of second-hand analogue radios that the artist has stacked in layers. <br /> <br /> The radios are tuned to a multitude of different stations and are adjusted to the minimum volume at which they are audible. Nevertheless, they compete with each other and create a cacophony of low, continuous sound, resulting in inaccessible information, voices or music."<br /> <br /> Recorded by Cities and Memory. </div>

00:06:00

8am in Portobello

<div>Early morning at the beach in Portobello, Edinburgh, Scotland. <br /> <br /> Recorded by Clara Goette.</div>

00:04:51

Leyton Marsh, Walthamstow Marshes

<div>Varied and expansive soundscape recorded at Leyton Marsh, Walthamstow Marshes: Trains criss-crossing the marshes, aircraft, birds, insects, dog walkers and activity from the nearby industrial estate and water treatment works. Occasionally, the wind can be heard through the line of trees that separates Lammas Meadow from Leyton Marsh. The view looking directly ahead to the south is of the curved gold roof of the Lee Ice Valley Centre.<br /> <br /> Recorded by Andrew Durham.</div>

00:09:00

Beating the bounds

<div> The title refers to the ancient ritual defining the boundaries where grazing rights exist. The ritual moves from place to place, varying but effectively the same, sometimes overpowering the contemporary soundscape sometimes succumbing to it. <br /> <br /> Walthamstow marshes reimagined by Alan Cook.</div>

00:11:25

The call

<div>"The sound recording reminded me of the Scottish Folk tale of The Seal Wife/Selkie. I imagined her walking along the beach at dawn longing to return to her seal family and her mounting frustration being prevented from this due to her stolen seal skin.<br /> I used the clip in its entirety and the music evolved around it."<br /> <br /> Portobello beach, Edinburgh reimagined by Lynn Findlay.</div>

00:04:49

Radio improvisation

<div>I built a radio set and recorded a number of live 'radio improvisations'. The original sound work and five of improvisiations were layered to make the final submission.<br /> <br />  Babel in Tate Modern reimagined by Simon Kennedy.</div>

00:08:27