(Listen With Headphones)

As a child it was a joy to grow up by the Grand Canal in Dublin.  For me it offers a wonderful blend of nature and urban life. This mixture creates an unusual atmosphere and by association a concoction of sounds and noise. Used by many different people for many different things and inhabited by many forms of wildlife, it offers a unique mixture of all things together that is rare in a modern city such as Dublin.

I took this opportunity to attempt to capture a fraction of this in order to gain an experience of some of the sounds that may be missed or even overlooked. I found autumn to be a great time of year to do this with the falling of the leaves and the interchangeable weather offering another dimension to the experience. This soundscape looks to capture what it would be like for one to take a brisk walk along the canal, eventually leading to a rusty gated conclusion. 

Luke Mulligan