My usual Sunday night WB session was taken over at the last minute by a location sound gig, so I present here a quick experiement from earlier in the week. I remember hearing Eno talk about making field recordings and listening to them repeatedly to the point where he would learn them much in the same way that you might get to know a piece of intentional music. This strikes me as really great exercise for developing more abstract compositional sense, and deliberate listening. I've never tried it before but I thought to have a go with a lonely forgotten .wav.

As a listener you can quickly arrive at a more intuitive musical/rythmic sense of a recording if it is just a short fragment that is repeated, so here I start off with 6 repeats of a short clip from a dawn chorus I recorded on Nukunu land (Southern Flinders Ranges, South Australia). I then extend the loop slightly and repeat it 3 times before adding another extension. This goes on until around the 4:50 mark, at which point the recording plays through a full 2 minute section without repeating. It is my hope that this organisation of the recording helps to slowly stretch your/my listening 'muscles' and draw us in to some deeper listening.

Or not. Either way, thats week 8 done

Tags: week 8 2022, View by:Simon Koehn