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

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)

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

Roel Knappstein

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

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

Malath Abbas

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

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

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

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

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.

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02: Walking In Water

Listen out for these sounds in Walking In Water:

… 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

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

Roel Knappstein

One is of a spring day in France in early June. Nathalie and I went for a walk and had a rest beside a pond with frogs.

Roel Knappstein with Nathalie Brans

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

Here’s a wee thing I made today in my head bubble. Hope it suits, can’t remember if you needed a certain length.
That was fun! So nice to have a play and make something with no parameters, must do that more often, I’d probably get quite a lot done that way.

Emily Scott

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

Here are a bunch of Uma sounds for you. Some great purring and chirping, (my fav is on Uma 2.wav 1:04 – sounds like an Ewok).

Bobby Perman (and Becki Crossley)

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

Andrew Wasylyk

Track named by Nina Perman. Written and produced by Tommy Perman.

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14: Dancing With Cows

Listen out for these sounds in Dancing With Cows:

Recording sent by Sandy Carson, Austin, Texas

I recently received an unexpected and rather lovely gift of a kalimba. The little thing sits on my desk where I work and occasionally throughout the day, while I’m thinking, or taking a break, or procrastinating, I’ll have a little play on it. It has such a sweet sound that even my mistakes (of which there are many) are pretty and it’s really reminded me how joyful and immersive and meditative playing music can be. If everyone had a kalimba on their desk I think the world would be a happier place. 

Rachel Simpson

The cow is a holy animal for some Hindu communities in India (and also the cause for a lot of unrest and polarisation). This is a man singing as he brings around a richly decorated cow seeking alms (food and money often). He came around our studio often and this was a very familiar sound before the pandemic. It is a sound I miss hearing these days.

Babitha George

Stone “bells” on the Glen Finglas sculpture trail

Jonnie Common

This is from a forest outside Bangalore in BR Hills. The Soliga tribe lives here and the drums you hear are them drumming at night to keep wild elephants away.

Babitha George

Here’s a wee thing I made today in my head bubble. Hope it suits, can’t remember if you needed a certain length.
That was fun! So nice to have a play and make something with no parameters, must do that more often, I’d probably get quite a lot done that way.

Emily Scott

Track named by Babitha George.
Written and produced by Tommy Perman.

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17: Trying To Squeeze Out The Wax From A Pile Of Shit

Listen out for these sounds in Trying To Squeeze Out The Wax From A Pile Of Shit:

I hope this is ok and workable. It’s essentially all about the mundane. I love rituals and I love to have them in the morning – it makes me happy. I really enjoy the start of the day, when the unexpected hasn’t happenned yet, when it’s a completely blank canvas, fresh start of something. I am lucky enough to have a job that I like and to be able to spend my days in my own studio. So here are the sounds of the first half an hour after leaving my flat – the walk, putting the kettle on, turning the radio on, making a cup of coffee and then a wee bit of printing. Right before the printer decides to do something silly and I have to fix it in panic hehe! Essentially, I think that during these strange times when nothing is certain, I fell out of love with chaos a bit and started to really appreciate these short glimpses of clarity and stability.

Gabrielė Gudaitytė

This is the recording that sprang to mind when I first read your email. It’s my daughter playing my xylophone, this time last year. So she was 13 months old at the time. Funny to hear her not talking, with just the occasional grunt, as she rarely stops chatting at present 😀

Thought of this because 
(a) it makes me feel happy 
(b) it was recorded with a field recorder rather than a phone 
(c) it’s rife with easily croppable notes / flourishes in the key of C.

Jonnie Common

I don’t really try to make music any more even though I do play about from time to time to escape from all of the visual stuff. Happiness isn’t necessarily in the sound but in the process of pressing keys and pushing buttons.

Chris Labrooy

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 Gabrielė Gudaitytė. Written by Tommy Perman, Chris Labrooy and Sandy Carson. Produced by Tommy Perman.

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