The imaginary lighthouse
Aug 26, 2022, 02:33 PM
Waves at Mosteiros reimagined by Cities and Memory.
For this composition we've imagined that there is a lighthouse at Mosteiros in the Azores - there is, in reality, no such thing. In our imagined soundscape, the lighthouse keeper walks up to the door of the lighthouse on a foggy morning, waves crashing either side of him. The huge door opens and closes behind him, and he turns on a buzzing electric light.
Ascending the stairs of the lighthouse, he comes to the engine room, containing the mechanism for turning the huge lamp, as well as the controls for the foghorn. He pulls the foghorn lever twice, with the horn erupting inside the lighthouse. Descending the stairs, he steps outside to make sure that his warning to the approaching ship has been heeded.
As well as the waves recording, the following samples were used:
For this composition we've imagined that there is a lighthouse at Mosteiros in the Azores - there is, in reality, no such thing. In our imagined soundscape, the lighthouse keeper walks up to the door of the lighthouse on a foggy morning, waves crashing either side of him. The huge door opens and closes behind him, and he turns on a buzzing electric light.
Ascending the stairs of the lighthouse, he comes to the engine room, containing the mechanism for turning the huge lamp, as well as the controls for the foghorn. He pulls the foghorn lever twice, with the horn erupting inside the lighthouse. Descending the stairs, he steps outside to make sure that his warning to the approaching ship has been heeded.
As well as the waves recording, the following samples were used:
- Inside the lighthouse on Flat Holm Island, recorded by Cities and Memory.
- An English country church door closes, recorded by Cities and Memory.
- "Footsteps, Muddy, E.wav" by InspectorJ (www.jshaw.co.uk) of Freesound.org
- Heavy-breathing man by Teebee_Deael, courtesy of Freesound.org
- Old lever pull by DrMinky
- Fluorescent light switch on off by kyles
- Walking down spiral stairs by giddster
- rotating dome.flac by ignotus
- Metal2.wav by arnaud coutancier
- Foghorn by Spitfire Audio