An experimental piece created exclusively from field-recordings round and about the flea market @ Mauerpark, Berlin. No external beats, musical instruments, samples, etc., used. 

Recorded in Berlin, May 10, 2015.
Mixed & Mastered in Berlin, July 2015.

mauerpark ~ 150510

razhdavitsa ~ 140827 is an experimental piece composed exclusively from field-recordings at a countryside cottage in Bulgaria. No external beats, musical instruments, samples, etc., used. 

Recorded in Razhdavitsa, August 27, 2014.
Mixed & Mastered in Leeds, October 2014.

razhdavitsa ~ 140827

neukölln ~ 150816 is a soundcastle made out of one continuous field recording of the flea market near Lahnstraße in Neukölln, Berlin. All sounds harvested from the originally recorded soundscape (no external beats, instruments, samples, etc. used.) 

Recorded in Neukölln, Berlin, August 16, 2015.
Mixed & Mastered in Berlin, November 2015.

neukölln ~ 150816

Recorded in Lisbon, February 22, 2016.
Mixed & Mastered in Berlin, August 2016.

terreiro do paço ~ 160222 is created exclusively from one continuous field recording at the Terreiro do Paço water terminal in Lisbon, Portugal. The recording was done on February 22, 2016 while the terminal was not populated. The floating steel structures move with the water, rubbing and banging against each other, to produce uncanny melodies that swell and ebb in intensity. The main track is left structurally unedited and is therefore presented as 'performed' by the terminal structures. I gradually add processed parallel copies of it to add layers of perspective.

terreiro do paço ~ 160222

Mixed & Mastered in Berlin, September 2016
Cover Art Drawing by Peter Nanev

Rua da Paz is a composition made exclusively of one continuous field-recording at a bus stop on a rainy day. The location is on a street called  Rua da Paz in Barreiros, Portugal. The recording is taken from a database of rural soundscapes in Portugal. The pouring rain inundates the soundscape. Occasionally, heavy raindrops hit sonorous objects—perhaps thrash bins or tin drains—producing punctuated gun- or drum-like sounds.

Rua da Paz translates as Peace Road, but can also be loosely interpreted as A Road to Peace. Hence, the composition explores the movement from anxiety and belligerence toward serenity and peace. Rua da Paz thus follows the amorphous movement from alienation to integration. Isolated raindrops come together to become rain. A build-up of critical mass and a breaking point is reached. Beyond is the ocean. Beyond is peace.

Rua Da Paz

Recorded at Mälarhöjden metro station, Stockholm, March 11, 2016 
Mixed & Mastered in Berlin, November 2016
Cover photography by Stefan Katzarski

mälarhöjden_tbana ~ 160311


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mälarhöjden_tbana ~ 160311 is a piece composed entirely from one continuous field-recording done at the Mälarhöjden metro station in Stockholm, Sweden on March 11, 2016. I recorded late at night so the station was unpopulated. This allowed me to isolate the rhythmical patterns and to record the overall sonic presence of the station and its escalators. I haven't quantised or otherwise manipulated the patterns. I measured them operating consistently at about 106 bpm and set my grid accordingly. I found the mechanical operation of the escalators very intriguing both rhythmically and sonically: phasing, de-phasing, beating away..

One thing about escalators I find fascinating is the impossibility of going back once you step on them. Both those happy with its direction, and those there by mistake, are stuck together and will be taken to the end regardless. You can neither change your mind, nor argue yourself back. One’s best hope is to wait for it to run its course and then try make one’s way back from a place that was never intended. The overall industrial sound and mechanistic structure of the piece are pinned against notions of free will and choice. Perhaps the greater forces that drive humanity are comparable to the greater physical forces that drive machines: impersonal, impartial, and beyond our control.

mälarhöjden_tbana ~ 160311

Recorded just outside the town of Hissar, Bulgaria, on January 4, 2017.
Mixed & Mastered in Berlin, April, 2017.

(The piece is mixed in binaural sound. Use headphones for a more immersive experience.)

'hissar ~ 170104' is a composition made of a field-recording I did in January 2017. The recording is of an electric plant on the edge of town. I stood, across the road, facing a big transformer; buzzing and tweeting away in the midst of an open field. 

I’ve done minimal editing, cleaning up some severe handling noises, and cutting it to a set structure and timeframe. 

Therefore, the sounds you hear are how they sounded on location.

hissar ~ 170104 (knowledge is better than ignorance)— /binaural/

Short unprocessed excerpt from a field-recording done on May 21, 2017 at Teufelsberg, Berlin.

Teufelsberg (Raw excerpt)

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