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Last of her kind
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Experimental Electronic and Electro-Acoustic music from Oxford, UK.
The techniques and methods I use cover music concrete, sonification, spectral transformations, modular compositions, digital manipulation of acoustic sounds etc. I like to think that when the experimentation ends my experience of creating more traditional music forms results in arrangements that are more listenable and human than some of the experimental music currently being created. Much of the music also includes a certain playfulness and humour.
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January 22, 2023
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MP3 10.5 MB 320 kbps 4:35
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WAV 69.3 MB
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Danceable
coffee-place
dancefloor
Story behind the song
This 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.
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