The sea unicorn
Jan 17, 2023, 09:35 PM
"As I became familiar with the scientific recording, I experimented with ways to to coax out its particular elements. My relationship to the sounds became more playful as this process evolved. When I isolated, filtered, spliced, reorganised and recombined them I considered how they might coexist with my own sounds - in particular those from my ongoing solo saxophone recording project.
"In this composition I use my instrument to respond to the deconstructed recording, which is subsequently manipulated further in ways to punctuate textures produced by the saxophone.
"Sometimes the recorded sounds and those imitated on the saxophone are intertwined. Variously filtered broadband noise segments are combined into ambient layers which shift against each other, often in the background, but occasionally overwhelming those more organised sounds.
"The piece begins with icy bursts of colliding sonic objects. Permutations of the narwhal calling are featured in the middle. The adventure ends traversing the ice and sinking into the Arctic depths."
Narwhal reimagined by Reuben Derrick.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.
"In this composition I use my instrument to respond to the deconstructed recording, which is subsequently manipulated further in ways to punctuate textures produced by the saxophone.
"Sometimes the recorded sounds and those imitated on the saxophone are intertwined. Variously filtered broadband noise segments are combined into ambient layers which shift against each other, often in the background, but occasionally overwhelming those more organised sounds.
"The piece begins with icy bursts of colliding sonic objects. Permutations of the narwhal calling are featured in the middle. The adventure ends traversing the ice and sinking into the Arctic depths."
Narwhal reimagined by Reuben Derrick.
Part of the Polar Sounds project, a collaboration between Cities and Memory, the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity (HIFMB) and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI). Explore the project in full at http://citiesandmemory.com/polar-sounds.