Noah Ings – Positive Interactions

11: Flickering Candle

Listen out for these sounds in Flickering Candle:

… for some variation I’ve included a stem of backwards electric guitar that never quite made the Fugitive Light and Themes of Consolation cut.
Andrew Wasylyk

A grasshopper singing

Nominated by Marijana Wilhelms.

Sound sourced from freesound.org:

https://freesound.org/s/58240/

A match taken from a box and then lit

this is one that I really like…
matches from a box and then lightning…
Markus Wilhelms

A studio door being unlocked

It is ‘opening my studio door’ after I haven’t been able to be there for two months.
Roel Knappstein

A Toyota Prius starting up

So my sound idea was originally the sound of a prius starting up – whenever I took an uber I loved the noise it made as it drove off.
So I found an example of the sound in a Japanese prius tutorial, and for fun I have left some of the language spoken in if you thought it might work. Prius sound is the focus though from me 🙂
Noah Ings

Casio Tone MT-40 Bass

Sampled from a recording sent by Gavin Sutherland (Other Lands)

Electronic bleeps

Sent by Josh Ings

Fish wire strung along a pier resonating in the wind

Also, this is a set of recordings I made in the Pacific Northwest a few years ago that I love – it’s an accidental aeolian harp that was made out of some fishing line that was strung up on a dock. It was super windy and it was making a completely amazing noise! I was so excited by it, and I still love listening to it.
Yann Seznec (with Kristina Seznec)

Hamacide’s happy guitar

It seemed like a simple request, but the more I thought about it, the harder it became to think of a sound that made me feel happy.
So I took the complete opposite route of digging inside and did a finder search of my Hard Drive. I typed in “Happy” and an old, unfinished session came up with the word “happy” in the title.
I listened to it and it made me want to finish it, AND it made me happy. Here is a portion of the guitar track from it. I’m starting to remember how I started to write the song, and all the stuff I was doing at the time, and it makes me happy.
Yusuke Hama (Hamacide)

Owls on a swing

The owls nest in the garden, and in summer sit around chatting to the fledglings. The swing is their favourite spot. The owls are very much part of my sense of home – a co-habitation.
Rose Ferraby

Sandy Carson’s guitar and bass playing

Synths sounds by Johnny Lynch

Just searched through some old stems from the Pictish Trail album, and found some sounds I really enjoyed making with Rob Jones, mostly on his swanky OP-1 and MS10 synths.
Johnny Lynch (aka Pictish Trail)

Track named by Maja Wilhelms. Written by Tommy Perman, Yusuke Hama and Sandy Carson. Produced by Tommy Perman.

Email your happy message to: happy@positiveinteractions.space – you will then receive an auto-respond email with a link to download. If it doesn’t arrive please check your junk / spam folder. I will try to respond to your happy messages personally if I can. Thank you!

13: Cushie Too

Listen out for these sounds in Cushie Too:

A Toyota Prius starting up

So my sound idea was originally the sound of a prius starting up – whenever I took an uber I loved the noise it made as it drove off.

So I found an example of the sound in a Japanese prius tutorial, and for fun I have left some of the language spoken in if you thought it might work. Prius sound is the focus though from me 🙂

Noah Ings

Electronic bleeps

Sent by Josh Ings

Woodpigeon cooing

Sound nominated by Helen Ewing and sourced from: https://freesound.org/s/319512/

Track named by Helen Ewing. Written and produced by Tommy Perman.

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20: (sway) row, row, let’s go

Listen out for these sounds in Track 20:

A Toyota Prius starting up

So my sound idea was originally the sound of a prius starting up – whenever I took an uber I loved the noise it made as it drove off.

So I found an example of the sound in a Japanese prius tutorial, and for fun I have left some of the language spoken in if you thought it might work. Prius sound is the focus though from me 🙂

Noah Ings

A volin

I was really touched when Tommy asked me to take part in this project. As I was shielding and had additional caring responsibilities I hadn’t been able to play the violin during lockdown, not even open the case, and this was literally about 5 minutes after I started playing for the first time, having pressed ‘record’ just in case anything was usable. I was warming up with some very basic two note motifs based on a ‘perfect cadence’, a closing chord sequence which often ends a piece bringing it back to the ‘home’ key, and then some improvised simple short melodies. I ended up layering the motifs over each other, with some deliberate flux in the timings, to make that repeated pattern. As I was in a very hectic work and home period, was using podcasting software to record and edit on my iPad without the skills to make it sound how I wanted (plus find it quite difficult to listen to myself) and then got floored by a virus, the actual process of creating it probably skirted wildly around the definition of ‘happy’, but Tommy worked wonders with it and, for me, that very simple chord sequence feels so grounding, and almost comforting, that I can’t help but smile when I hear it!

Kate Miguda

Balgay birds and dog walkers

Here is a grouped field recording of birds and dog walker’s chattering that features on a new piece of music I’ve made for a new album. The song in question is a reminder of my cousin for me and I think it turned out okay. Clare’s been propagating cuttings from plants in our flat with a view to passing them on to folk. It made me think that it might be nice to share a ‘cutting’ from this song for you to sew into your new project.

Andrew Wasylyk

Casio Tone MT-40 Bass

Sampled from a recording sent by Gavin Sutherland (Other Lands)

Fish wire strung along a pier resonating in the wind

Also, this is a set of recordings I made in the Pacific Northwest a few years ago that I love – it’s an accidental aeolian harp that was made out of some fishing line that was strung up on a dock. It was super windy and it was making a completely amazing noise! I was so excited by it, and I still love listening to it.

Yann Seznec (with Kristina Seznec)

Queen Street Station, Glasgow

Queen Street station is the first and last space I encounter on most of my visits to Glasgow. Taken at the end of November 2016, my recording of Queen Street reminds me of the years I’ve frequented the city, going to gigs, buying records, visiting friends, and waiting on the train home.

Gav Brown

Track named by Coralie Scott. Written by Kate Miguda and Tommy Perman. Produced by Tommy Perman.