Hinsawdd is a sonification of quantitive and qualitative climate data. Using land and surface temperature, the compositional space is spectrally framed via six voices warping into dissonance following the increase in heat. Within this space unfolds press statements from the key contributors to carbon emissions, structurally informed by patterns in the layout of their climate press kits. As the beating pulse of the bass gradually ticks and the years wear on, the textures of future plans accumulate into a swarm of noise.

Hinsawdd

Olrhain Chwyldroadau

Lleuad Goch

The invention of the tape machine changed the landscape of music making forever. From the sound of air raid sirens to the church bells of Coventry, Delia Derbyshire exploited the new capabilities of audio manipulation to recycle and recontextualise the sound of everyday life, in doing so unpacking her most salient memories, and instilling her works with a sense of childlike wonder.

In an age removed from analogue music making, Sound House aims to reclaim the tape machine as a token of a time of intense auditory development, using this premier radiophonic instrument as the material with which to interrogate the dual malleability of both medium and memory.

Sound House - Stereo Reduction

Sound House Binaural reduction (Listen with headphones)

Sound House Binaural

Spent is an exploration of deconstruction, abstraction, and assemblage of sounds to create a series of shifting spaces and contexts. Through the manipulation of a single sound source, I aimed to create a wealth of sound material with which I could piece together to create a new and evolving soundworld, with allusions to both real and abstract spaces and materials, free of all original context.

Spent

Foxglove(stereo Reduction)

A postcard to Wales.

Hiraeth can be interpreted a homesickness for a time and place that exists only in one’s memory. A nostalgia that rears its head at unexpected moments, shifting shapes as contexts change and memories form new meanings.

Using the home as an allegory for hiraeth, sounds were selected for their capacity to draw forth strong personal memories. These materials are recontextualised as we venture through the living spaces, becoming tinged with new emotions and associations as the environment shifts around them, each transformation revealing the layers of nuances of hiraeth.

Here One Moment (stereo reduction)

The creaks of wood, sweeping of brooms, and the clink and scrapes of chainmail and pewter crockery. Hear the sonic past and present of Ordsall Hall through an exploration of the acoustics and objects found in its many rooms.

The sounds heard throughout were performed and recorded by visitors to the hall during a series of self-guided sound recording workshops. These sounds have been collected, curated, and manipulated to interrogate interactions between the sonic past and present of the hall.

Ordeshala (Stereo Reduction)

Sound Artist and experimental composer based in Manchester.

For any inquiries please reach out at cameronnaylor133@gmail.com

Cameron Naylor

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