“I record acoustic instruments, and the challenge is to record them as authentically as possible. This could become an obsession, but I’m pragmatic about what I can achieve with the tools at my disposal. Once recorded, the process of composition involves transforming the sounds whilst somehow retaining something of their original essence. For me composition involves trying to coax ‘music’ into being from these disparate recorded sounds. It’s a bit like making a sourdough starter. You add the constituent elements, stir, and then wait. Hopefully, if the conditions are right, something will happen and then it’s essentially out of my hands. Something has occurred that is more than the sum of its parts. From then on the challenge is not to try and exert my own will over it. I might help give it shape here or there, but for me music is ‘other’ and deserves to be treated with awe.”
“The landscape is full of voices, audible and inaudible. Its contours and reliefs are a patterning of melodies, and the music I create is a string, resonating in sympathy.”
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