Rose Ferraby – Positive Interactions

01: Saw An Old Friend Today

Listen out for these sounds in Saw An Old Friend Today:

… 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 garden gate opening

Nathalie advised me to record our door to the garden as well. She always seems to pick up that sound when I am coming home…
Roel Knappstein (sound nominated by Nathalie Brans)

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 Tom Waits song playing while hail falls on a studio roof

When I was working in my studio one day, a heavy rain and hail storm poured down on the roof and made quite a nice mix with some Tom Waits music I was playing
Roel Knappstein

Baby Rohan playing with his mum Mhairi

I’ve recorded Ro and Mhairi having a laugh together 😊 hopefully it fits!
Malath Abbas

Midnight the cat playing piano

Fave is midnight the cat, our wee guy who we recently lost to a car during covid:(
He was quite the pianist. We’d love it if that was used somehow! That makes us so happy every time we watch it.
Sandy Carson and Karen Skloss

Owls hooting along to church bells

I was out walking in the dusk the other night, and heard something that I thought I’d send on for your Positive Interactions. I made a little film on my phone, so the sound quality isn’t superb. But standing under a tree in the dark, listening the the owls chat and hoot at the bells, made me very happy indeed.
Rose Ferraby

The gate to an organic farm squeaking

a recording of the gate which forms the entrance to the domain of the biological farmer that we are supporting. The gate looks like this (photo of gate)
The green shield with the thump up is saying ‘green hero’…
It is always good to go there and harvest your ‘own’ vegetables.
If you have been picking beans or digging carrots or potatoes for a while, you return home with quite a different feeling. Those activities are quite stress diminishers…
Roel Knappstein

The white noise of the North Atlantic Ocean

here we go, two original recordings of noise (at day and at night) in the middle of the Norwegian Sea / North Atlantic 🙂
It was one the happiest moments and places I have been; I would sit there for hours and tune in—in a way.
Hope you like them and they provide fun for VC, chopping up, filters, or just leaving them as they are.
Jens Ewald

Woodpigeons in Balgay Cemetery, Dundee

I caught some wood pigeons in the spring blossoms of Balgay Cemetary overlooking Invergowrie Bay.
Andrew Wasylyk

Track named by Jasmine Skloss Harrison.
Written and 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!

11: Flickering Candle

Listen out for these sounds in Flickering Candle:

A backwards guitar

… 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.

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16: Rocket Trip

Listen out for these sounds in Rocket Trip:

Casio SK-1 through a looping pedal

I hope your Wednesday has been going well.

I have just been working on some music for your project.

Firstly a slightly boring computer related story

A few weeks my 2014 MacBook Pro stopped working / I took it over to Apple and they helped the poor old thing out.

They installed a new operating system but with no garage band which I normally use for music.

I think if I had installed a new version it would have melted it.

I was going to send over some music I had made in the summertime.

Anyway today I was feeling the vibes of some kind and decided to make some improvised music.

So this afternoon recording on my iPad using Voice Memo / I made 4 pieces of music/sound for you.

These pieces were made with:

Acoustic Guitar

Microphone

Casio SK-1 Keyboard

Thunder Tube

Toy Saxophone

Loop Station

Synthesizer Bass Pedal

Recorded live in downtown Dunfermline on Wednesday afternoon.

I hope you can access the sound files / and that you can use them in someway for the project?

Marcus Oakley

Drawing with graphite and charcoal

When I’m immersed in drawing I’m always happy. I love the way the sounds reflect the mark making and materials; it’s as though you can trace the drawing invisibly in your mind.

Rose Ferraby

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)

Keyboard recital of Somewhere over the Rainbow

This was the first song I learnt with both hands.

Andrew Weir

This track begins with a performance of Somewhere Over The Rainbow written by Harold Arlen. Rocket Trip named by Harry Oakley. Written by Marcus Oakley and Tommy Perman. Produced by Tommy Perman.

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18: Weathered Passageway / Black Water

Listen out for these sounds in Weathered Passageway / Black Water:

AxiDraw robot drawing

I’m really taken with the idea of giving you the robot drawing sound … That’s probably been the most positive addition to my sound world this year 🙂

Simon Kirby

Cider fermenting

Making cider has been one of the defining elements of living here in Bridge of Earn. Our orchard consists of one small but enthusiastic tree on the drive. We did it every year for the first 5 or 6 years, bringing old friends up from Edinburgh and Glasgow, each time supplementing with more apples from other sources, refining our procedures, building better presses, and increasing our efficiency and yield. But we have been on a hiatus since Emily was 1 or 2, as it became harder to dedicate the time to it. We started up again this year – this time a bunch of neighbours, carefully distancing ourselves at the end of our driveways…!

We made 10 gallons – it’s currently bubbling away happily to itself in the live room here at Pumpkinfield.

Pete Harvey

Coffee on a stove

The morning sound which I am always looking forward too…

Roel Knappstein

Lapping water and pebbles Loch Fyne

I’m not sure how much you need to know about the reasons for the happiness but for me, there’s something about the musicality of how the water meets pebbles or the twists and turns of a stream like this one that never fails to unpick whatever angst or feeling of fragmentation I’m feeling. I know I can rely on it to make me happy; like there’s a code in the different notes that untangles and rearranges until everything feels clear and light. I love that the longer you listen to sounds like this the more music you can pick out. And I love that just by listening to them you can tell that the water is clear and clean and that as I listen it will unlock lots of other memories; of the smell of the woods or the movement of the seawater and seaweed.

Tamsin Ghislaine Cunningham

Monmouth beach Lyme Regis, England

Monmouth beach Lyme Regis : During my PhD I spent a lot of time on this beach recording landslides and fossils. I walked it with a lot of different people, photographed it, drew it. The sound of waves and stones set up a rhythm that accompanied it all.

Rose Ferraby

Needle being placed on a vinyl record

Putting on an old Thelonious Monk record…

Roel Knappstein

Panagia beach, Antiparos, Greece

Tempting though it is to get you some Laurie chat 🙂 I’m going to send you over a couple of short vids just now that were taken on the island of Antiparos in September 2017. Panagia beach is one of my favourites that we’ve visited in Greece and these were from our last day there before we left for Athens and then home. It was our last holiday just the two of us too actually though Laurie was already with us, Gemma was about a month and a half pregnant at the time 🙂 lots of feelings associated with these clips 🙂

Christophe Docherty

Piano improvisation

I’ve been learning the piano and I reckon I’ve probably been at my happiest this past year any time I’ve had a chance to do so. I didn’t want to contrive it too much so I just messed around with some chords I’ve been trying out.

Ziggy Campbell

The white noise of the North Atlantic Ocean

here we go, two original recordings of noise (at day and at night) in the middle of the Norwegian Sea / North Atlantic 🙂
It was one the happiest moments and places I have been; I would sit there for hours and tune in—in a way.
Hope you like them and they provide fun for VC, chopping up, filters, or just leaving them as they are.

Jens Ewald

Worthing beach, England

I’ve just sent you a clip of the sea pulling in the pebbles, I love it – really powerful.

Alan Stockdale

Track named by Albie Kirby and Io Kirby. Written by Ziggy Campbell and Tommy Perman. Arranged and produced by Tommy Perman.