This soundscape piece was made as an electroacoustic composition assignment for the Music and Media Technologies M.Phil course at Trinity College Dublin. I went into the campus on a Saturday - 17th October 2020 - just before Ireland was put into a second national lockdown due to rising cases of COVID-19. The college was closed to the public and very few students were around. This was my first time there since March 2020 when the college was closed due to the pandemic. I brought my Zoom H4N recorder and walked around the campus for around 90 minutes from around 4 o’clock, a time which would, in ‘normal' circumstances, see the campus busy with tourists, students and members of the public there to look at the architecture, visit the Book of Kells, or just passing through on their way in or out of the city.  

There was an eerie, peaceful silence in the campus that was interrupted only by the odd student’s footsteps, birdsong, doors closing, a game of tennis between two French students, a couple of bored security guards driving in circles around the campus in first gear, and the sounds of the city outside the walls; sirens, train      horns, traffic, and a distant busker singing songs. All of this sounded comforting when heard from the calm oasis of the empty college grounds, a little like the sound of rain heard from a sheltered place. There was a clarity to the sounds which was unique to this time; with less sounds competing for sonic space, each sound stood out in relief against the background. 

This piece was recorded solely with sounds I heard and recorded in the campus that day. A number of sounds were time stretched and edited in various ways. The intention of the piece was to translate the surreal, dreamlike experience of being there.

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Crystalline demo mix

This track was built on a sample from the track 'Dead Man's Hand' by Sean Millar, aka Dr. Millar, from the album 'The Deal'. One of my favourite albums of all time. Respect and thanks to Sean for letting me use the sample. This track was released for free download on the Loud Mouth compilation Volume 1, which can be downloaded here: http://loudmouthcollective.bandcamp.com/

Dead Man's Land

This is a collaboration I did a few years ago with Blake Curran. It was released on the Loud Mouth compilation Volume 1, which can be downloaded here: http://loudmouthcollective.bandcamp.com/

Legacy (collaboration with Blake Curran)

This track was released on the Loud Mouth Compilation Volume 3, which can be downloaded here: http://loudmouthcollective.bandcamp.com/

Lush Rain

My track from the Loud Mouth Compilation Volume 4, released May 2012. Download it for free here: loudmouthonline.blogspot.com

Waiting

Track I made with Blake at Loud Mouth for the Loud Mouth Compilation Volume 5, available here: http://loudmouthcollective.bandcamp.com/album/loud-mouth-compilation-volume-5

All synth sounds from Korg MS 2000


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