Head Noise

The basic material for “Head Noise” came from a set of “private utterances”. The sort of thing no one else hears, a sort of internal monologue of whistles, sighs and breath. The wet clicking and “Ss” are the audio left overs from “tidying up” a piece for spoken word. I used software to find sibilance and mouth pops, but instead of deleting them I kept them and discarded the actual spoken text.

Head Noise on Bandcamp (free download)

Head Noise on Spotify

 

Last of her kind & Modular Studies Volume One

 

I've been slightly remiss in not updating the blog. "Last of her kind" has been released as a free download on Bandcamp, streaming on Spotify, Amazon, Apple Music etc.

"Last of her kind" is based on a number of field recordings I made of working steam trains at an outdoor railway museum. I wanted to create the piece using the sorts of music concrete methods used during the heyday / end of the steam train era in the UK to anchor the work in the late 50s/60s technique wise. I used reverb, reversed sounds, filtered and slowed/ repitched the sounds. In the early 60s in the UK steam trains were being replaced and additionally there was a massive reduction in the rail network. So "Last of her Kind" ends mournfully as the steam engine seems to reflects on her soon to come demise.

Bandcamp

https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com/track/last-of-her-kind

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/trac/22cR8pF1UkTSAFa9nqD45L?si=mWWUYykZSVSAH4A-uFAsfg

Additionally I made some changes to "Modular Studies Volume One" and re-issued it

Bandcamp

https://markdaltongriffiths.bandcamp.com/album/modular-studies-volume-one-2020-edition

Spotify

https://open.spotify.com/album/4QbGmTphnsbvtFC3ZkGJeC?si=hwWnjUuBSoa4eYIAIh87iA