The conditions for recording were ideal, with the trees absorbing a lot of the wind sound allowing for beautifully clear recordings of the rushing water on its way to Devils Cauldron.
After the recordings had been logged Andy and I spoke at length as to how to compose a narrative from found sound without loosing the interest of the listener . Speaking with reference to Chris Watson and BJ Nilsen's collaboration; Storm, a full length album which follows a Storm's journey across the North Sea- we threw around ideas about creating a sense of movement and rhythm from field recordings. Inspired by this, we moved onto the topic of merging field recordings with synthesised sounds/ samples to complement the recordings sympathetically. With such an abundance of interesting sounds everywhere (nod in Silence to Cage) we both felt that it would be better to use only field recordings - and through the composition create melodies = think Reich inspired phased minimalist-esque melodies.
Lets see how it pans out.
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