A collection of sounds made with my mobile modular synthesiser , sometimes out on location in the Cornish landscape using solar panels and light/shadow as a dynamically interactive compositional tool.

Modular Excursions

Ambient Landscapes

Four compositions in response to the four seasons. In collaboration with Gareth Edwards for an exhibition at the Velarde gallery in Kingsbridge, Devon, September 2023 and then moving to the R.W.A in Bristol March /April 2025
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The Four Seasons

A collection of my soundscapes recorded on a high quality hand held digital recorder whilst out on location painting.

Soundscapes from West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly

Rushy Porth, Tresco

Choughs near Holywell Bay

Gulls Penhale Point June

Penberth May

The Song of the Sea Nanjizal February

Pentle evening

Porthgwarra Sea Febuary

Crean Dawn Chorus modified and manipulated.

Dawn Resonate

St Loy

Recorded underneath power lines in West Cornwall during storm Eunice 18th Feb 2022

Storm Eunice 18:2:22

A recording of a howling gale turned into something else with the aid of Melodyne's pitch to midi function.

Windscape

A recording of autumn rain underpins this track, made with my Zoom H4n, occasionally you can hear rain hitting the microphones directly. The bowed string sounds were made using my modular synthesiser, no string samples were used !

AUTUMN

Summer starts with the sound of Honeybees in a Echyum flower recorded in my garden and captured with my Zoom H4n, a recording of grasshoppers is also mixed in later in the piece. The resulting recording is fed through Ableton Live's resonators and other elements are added with my modular synthesiser.

SUMMER

This track was composed over a field recording of a dawn chorus recorded on my Zoom H4n and using my modular synthesiser for the main musical elements.

SPRING

Based on field recordings of the wind resonating a power line and a bonfire captured with my Zoom H4n and a binaural recording of myself walking through snow made with the Sennheiser AMBIO smart headset. Musical elements were pulled together from live improvisations on my Modular Synthesiser.

WINTER

Geofon recording of the Head Gear at the Victory Shaft Geevor Mine in West Cornwall

Geevor Victory Shaft

Appletree Bay

Pentle Bay November 29 2017

A stereo mix of a 5.1 surround sound project produced for a collaborative Art Installation in Cornwall. All sounds recorded by myself on location in Cornwall and sequenced with audio FXs in Live. Song of the Sea refers to the local name for a natural arch within the cliffs near where I live.

Song of the Sea

Recorded whilst out painting at Pendeen Watch, Cornwall

Pendeen Watch January'20

A Collection of recordings made during and in connection with the "Following the Light" residency on Lizard Point, Cornwall

Lizard Point Foghorn

A track made entirely from a recording of the Foghorn at Lizard Point Cornwall, the recording was re-pitched several times using Ableton Live in a simple I,V,VI scale both up and down in pitch (the root note being B which is what the foghorn is pitched too). The timing of each blast of the horn is scaled to the pitch so the deepest low B only plays a couple of times whereas the higher pitches are repeated many more times. There has been no reverb added to this composition, any reverb you do hear is the echo of the horn across the ocean.

Foghorn Fugue ver.1

A composition made with different pitched recordings of Lizard Point foghorn re-sequenced and re-pitched with my modular synthesiser (Qu-Bit Nebulae, Music Thing Radio Music, MI Marbles, MI Tides )and then arranged in Ableton Live

Foghorn Fugue ver.2

Resonant Feedback 3

Some early morning sounds before I start work

Dawn from the Studio

MI Rings and Turin Machine with a little plaits

Annet

My mobile modular setup sequencing Music Thing Modular Radio Music playing pitched samples of the Lizard Point foghorn.

Paul Lewin

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