Having bought NI Reaktor a few months ago, I'm finally getting a chance to sit down and play with the various ensembles. This started off as a generative drum loop in Reaktor, then went through some abusive compression in Ableton before being convolved with field recordings in SoundHack.
Reykjavík
I love Iceland.
Discovered that the collar of my new coat is great for clipping mics to, and provides great stereo separation.
Takk
Foxley Wood
Last December I took part in the Wildeye Sound Recording course, run by Chris Watson and Jez Riley French.
Aside from being an incredibly informative and enjoyable weekend, there were a number of field trips to do some practical work and experiment.
Achill
Granuaile's Tower seemed particularly ominous the New Year's night that I visited it. The wind was blowing viciously and it was densely dark outside. Inside, the wind resonated hollowly through the small window openings in the walls, and overflowing pools of rainwater leaked through the ceiling to pelt the gravel floor.
Granuaile's Tower
The next day was spent driving around the island, with a break in the rain allowing for some recording at Keem Bay, the incoming tide winding between the rocks.
Keem
1440
The indefatigable Andrew Spitz developed this phonographic timelapse tool in Max/MSP and made it freely available on his site during the year. I finally got around to kicking myself into doing the minimal effort of setting up a mic and letting it run for 24. So here's 24 hours compressed into 1440 two hundred millisecond slices.
Listening back it is strange how it reveals the pitches of my apartment, between the fridge motors, extraction fans and traffic hums.