Underground Textures (Regent's Park)

Regent's Park reimagined by Flora Henderson.

"Underground textures for a Regent's Park audio scene, shakuhachi and cello.

The varied textures and pitches of the sounds in the recording immediately resonated. I wanted to explore these textures and pitches with acoustic instruments, so I took an electro-acoustic approach to this work. My approach has been informed by research that I have done on timbre and the Japanese shakuhachi flute, and the way in which contemporary composers have used the wide timbral compass of this instrument. I made basic analog recordings of the shakuhachi and cello (both instruments are played by me), then combined and manipulated the recordings in Logic Pro 9 in concert with the Regent's Park recording to develop this Cities and Memory composition."

Part of our project The Next Station, reimagining the sounds of the London Underground and creating the first ever tube sound map. August 2016 - for more information see www.citiesandmemory.com/thenextstation