![]() ![]() The church is in the middle of a field and is hardly used, so it's practically empty and has a reverb better than anything electronic. Eventually I did move to the country, and discovered a Saxon church with an amazing acoustic. I also recorded lots of Indian radio, which can be very bizarre!Īs soon as I got back from India I went to the huge annual fair in Hull and made lots more recordings - some of them actually on the rides. Some recordings were of music, but most were of the amazing sounds of everyday life in India - parrots in the street, chanting inside the temples, the noisiest traffic I've ever heard. I made an epic five-week trip around India by train and came back with hundreds of hours of recording. Then when I was commissioned to compose music for Channel 4's Wild India I took a trip to India with my DAT machine, to research Indian music. I wanted to eventually listen to them in a quiet place in the country. I lived in East London at the time and intended to eventually move, so I recorded the traffic, the trains, the helicopters. When I bought my first portable DAT recorder over 10 years ago, I set about recording everything around me. I'm very fond of the stereo test records of the '50s and '60s, with their steam trains and fireworks, and wanted my album to have more than a hint of that. ![]() Some of the recordings are musical, and some are records of places I've been. It's made up of many different recordings that I made over a long period of time. If anything, it's 'about' the magic of acoustic spaces. 'This Is A Journey.'īilocation is an album in 5.1 surround. This was a feature of the Ambisonics system invented 30 years ago, and I eventually found that it's possible in 5.1 surround - without hanging speakers from the ceiling! I also discovered that it's possible to make recordings with only two microphones and convert them into 3D surround sound, and I used both techniques in the creation of my album Bilocation. I wanted sound that came from different directions around me, but I also wanted to hear sounds coming from above. I really wanted to hear something that wasn't just a remix of a standard music album, so I set about making the surround album that I wanted to hear. Just as when CD first appeared, the record companies are concentrating on their back catalogues. Instead, look what's happened: surround remixes of Led Zeppelin, Fleetwood Mac, the Beatles. I expected lots of amazing albums to appear that really explored this new medium. When 5.1 surround sound started to become a viable consumer format, I got very excited about the possibilities. Can they be adapted more successfully for surround systems? The Saxon church in Wiltshire that provided a natural ambience for many of the recordings on Bilocation.īinaural recordings can sound amazing on headphones, but don't work very well on conventional stereo speakers.
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