A meditative sound collage of field recordings of voices and machinery - from Ireland, Bali, China, England and Finland.

Industrial Sketch

A sound collage: contact microphone recordings of raindrops falling on wood, metal, and clay pots during the Indian monsoon.

Originally broadcast on The "Sound of Spaces" radio show, Radio Zero, Lisbon. - 2009

Monsoon Rain

An audio collage created in one day from sounds recorded in my apartment and on a short sound walk along the river Thames. 
Sound sources include a clockwork super-8 cine camera mechanism, and a handful of 18th century tobacco pipe stems found on the riverbed at low tide. 
This track was originally created for the 'Silence Radio' online audio project http://www.silenceradio.org/grid.php?artist=20


Clay Cameras

An audio collage of sounds found at the start and at the end of a week-long journey. 

Street seller's cries, cows and windscreen wipers from Bangalore during the monsoon; restaurant hawkers, automated voices and road crossing warning indicators from Tokyo.

Bangalore to Tokyo

A composition created from field recordings made in Hanoi during December 2012. An alternative edit to the the track on the "Framework 250" CD http://www.frameworkradio.net/framework250/root/

Ca Tru musicians, Buddhist temples, street public address system, St Joseph's church bells.

Three nights In Hanoi

Field recordings made in Kathmandu and Bharatpur - 2009.

Nepalese Journey

Created March 2009, Beijing. 

A live improvisation using an audio mixing desk supplied only with inputs from its own output stage, via effects pedals.

Behringer mixing desk, with in-built delay +  delay and effect pedals also in-circuit.

No input #1

A live improvisation using an audio mixing desk supplied only with inputs from its own output stage, via effects pedals.

Behringer mixer, in-built effects plus delay and effect pedals in-circuit

No input #2

As played on BBC Radio 4 BH - Slow radio. 28th April 2019
This hydrophone recording was made with an underwater microphone at the London Wetland Centre. You can hear the sound of underwater insects and critters, but also at around 1.27 and 3.30 ducks taking flight from the lake -  making a wonderful short ringing sound when heard from under the water.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0004l8m

Slow Radio - ducks taking flight as heard from underwater

Waves lapping over an exposed coral reef on the coast of Sri Lanka. The water and holes in the rock interact to make sounds as if the reef is breathing and gurgling.
Played on UK national radio BBC Radio 4 "BH" program on the 6th October 2019. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00092wh

Sea Breathing

A slow radio contribution played on UK BBC Radio 4's "BH" radio show on 19th January 2020. 

This recording was made on a freshwater island in the middle of the Essequibo river in Guyana. A large clump of bamboo stems creak and groan as the tall stems move in the wind.

I know - you are asking what I was doing on this island. There was an airstrip and a small hotel plus restaurant there. I was reliably informed that "electric avenue" Eddie Grant plays table football in the restaurant occasionally as he settled back in Guyana and lives on the riverside....

keith de mendonca

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