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"The clanking of the flagpole was what piqued my interest initially. Being from a smallish town in England originally, it's a sound I am very familiar with - this was then compounded with the pigeons and the bin trucks; again, all very familiar sounds, and ones that are mostly missing in my current home of New Zealand. 

"With the approach of the memories this triggered in me, I also wanted to include a nod to the 'Englishness' of it all. To this end, I have layered strings and choral voices across the original sounds to give it something of an Elgarian feel. At least in my head.

"In terms of processing, all the percussion is derived from the flagpole or other sounds within the original piece. I've also processed most of the strings and the bass through snippets of the original to give it a more coherent and gritty feel. And finally, there are a couple of synths that use samples of the pigeon and the bin truck. 

Holbrook village green reimagined by maff (Matt George).

IMAGE: Ovingham Village Green by Andrew Curtis, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons