Field recording

Keeping Track Of Time

Recently Recall Sound were lucky enough to record a great interview with Paul Roberson, Master Clockmaker. One of three full time clockmakers who skilfully keep up the running of Elizabeth Tower aka Big Ben! Arguably the most accurate mechanical clock on the planet.

Paul invites us up to experience a true gothic wonder and iconic international symbol.

London In Motion, A View

A composition we created inspired by rainy night travel in London. From the chain of lights from an urban high rise in Clapton, to the storm clouds over the River Thames.. a view of the wet city neon night from atop of Centre Point Tower.

Audio postcards

I plan to create an audio collage of the areas I have traveled to. The compositions are a direct influence of the area and consist of all original material and location specific sound recordings.

Beijing

What an incredible city.. Mysterious, spirited and ancient. This piece is mostly inspired by the breathtaking Great Wall and of the sight and sounds experienced during night trips around the Dongcheng District of Beijing.

Dongcheng with it’s many mist filled, beautiful and dreamlike courtyards, courtyards that are usually connected by secret alleys called hutongs. The hutongs are generally straight and run east to west so that doorways face north and south for good Feng Shui.

We really fell in love with Peking walking through it’s history. A city truly for the senses, some of which I’ve tried to capture in this composition.

Parallel Relay

Sequence – Site specific sound installation.

An ongoing collaboration project between Recall Sound & sound artist Esther Ainsworth.
Collecting data and daily sound recordings from the never ceasing traffic, which surrounds Bow Church, our new work focuses on the use of digital technology to create a series of sequences and patterns which form parameters for the sound works.

Exploring the history of Bow Church and its location on an island, isolated in the centre of a dual carriage way. Sounds sourced from the location are manipulated and relayed back within the building to create site specific installations.

The focal point is the consideration of the merging conflict between the overwhelming noise and stress of the road and the serenity and contemplative atmosphere found within the church.

Infinite Loop

Vinyl, the record ends when the music’s finished right? No, there’s another element… a locked loop with the needle in the last groove to interact with – the sound won’t stop until the listener decides it should.

An analogy for the resilience of vinyl in our digital age.

Here we’ve recorded the differing textures of such final loops.

Recording at ‘The Undercroft’

Skate Park South Bank Centre, London

Capturing a recording of an iconic spot that has been a home to street culture for over 40 years. A space that has inspired and encouraged creativity to a huge amount of people from all backgrounds and welcomed them into the London community. There is lot’s of talk and debate surrounding the relocation of the skateboard mecca “The Undercroft” as the Owners of the Southbank Centre plan to revamp the River Thames art centre.

Due to the site’s transformation the BMX and skatecrews are likely to find them selves short of a home.

The £43m project will include refurbishment of the 1960s building housing the Queen Elizabeth Hall and the Hayward Gallery but harshly not the skate park..

Due to the history and the importance of this site as a skate mecca, we thought it deserved to be to recorded and archived.

Gorm (pro skater) on View From The Undercroft “The noise that resonated around the brutalist architecture of the Undercroft will always remain with me, as does a sense of speed. Folk would whizz by over the hip and up the wall ride and back up the small banks in the long demolished area. The sound is irreplacable even to this day. I made friends there for life, picked up the sense of anarchy, seen pure creativity…All of these memories need to be preserved”.

1513: A Ships Opera

The Thames River, London UK. 

An armada of historic vessels from the age of sail, steam and diesel performed a live, moving, operatic concerto of ships’ steam whistles, bells, horns, sirens and cannon as the centrepiece of this years Thames Festival.

Recall Sound recorded the magnificent fleet calling to the shore, waters and airwaves against the backdrop of The O2 and London Bridge.

At Tower Bridge, the curtain opened as the bascules rise and the company of ships enters the theatre of the Pool of London.