Category Archives: Music

Distant Listening

By Martin | September 6, 2010

I recalled an old habit today of listening to mixes of my own music from other rooms. It’s hard to explain the attraction, but maybe it’s something to do with the sounds having a transporting, ambient quality to them which is made more pronounced when given a sense of perspective.
Being close to silent spaces, with [...]

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Cut Up Audio

By Martin | September 4, 2010

Doing well at blocking my internal audio censors at the moment, and just getting on with it. Unexpected drone manipulations from last night created through what’s become a standard process of processing, sampling, looping and re-processing the original audio source material until something interesting comes out.
Wonder if there’s a tenuous parallel there with the Burroughs/Gysin [...]

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Day & Night Recordings

By Martin | August 11, 2010

Just back from this year’s holiday to the beautiful Greek island of Corfu. This time we stayed on the North West coast, in a town called San Stefanos. On the Ionian Sea side of the island, the horizon is haunted by the silhouettes of the islands of Nisos Mathraki and Nisida Kravia, one inhabited but [...]

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Transformations

By Martin | July 10, 2010

Still working on the set of drone pieces with material from Andrey Faryus. A new download of fresh drones has come up with something interesting. It’s been sitting on my hard drive for ages while I work out what to do with it.
I’ve taken to putting these tracks through numerous stages of processing, to a [...]

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Their Name Liveth For Evermore

By Martin | May 26, 2010

Had a melancholic walk around the Windsor cemetery last weekend, searching for the grave of an old friends mother. This cemetery was established in the Victorian era, early 1850’s and consequently contains a majority of monuments from within 90 years of that time. Young soldiers who fought in the Crimean War, then the mass monuments [...]

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