Fragments takes the original recording and tries to convey the essence of the listeners experience by focusing on the small things – tone, melodic textures and fragments of sound.
I began by listening several times to the recording and picking out the bare essentials – the recording has several parts but is mostly dominated by the busker so that is where I started. I like to take small amounts of sound and make something bigger – a beat, a drone or a melodic line - from a fragment of sound. Here I focused mainly on the song, and was fascinated by the way the man’s voice rose and fell on certain words and thought that I could use that to create both rhythm and texture. The guitar melody was a very evocative sound and I decided I wanted to use it, but I did not want to recreate the song, instead I wanted to get the essence of it. I found a section of guitar with the lulling underscore and created a loop – but I found that actually the best way to deal with all the sounds was in very s
