Thenford arboretum reimagined by Simon Bradley. "The three words for this piece were: ///framework.gifts.chatting. Listening to the file, the most striking feature was the presence of the airplane within an exotic soundscape of birds. Birds often sound as though they are chatting even though they are usually demarcating territory in one way or another. The interplay of the human, machine and the idea of chatting as an informal exchange set the tone for me. I wanted the edits to sound somehow intrusive in the same way the plane was intruding on the chatter of the birds, and the birds intruding on one another. This provided the framework for the piece. It is difficult to conceive of a sound piece without some kind of framework, so I decided to take the word literally and include improvisation on a metal frame in the shape of a picnic table. I also included a recording of an actual chat using EQ to render it virtually unintelligible yet preserving the rhythm and some of the tonality to c
