"On listening to the recording of the music box and reading about the sentimentality behind it and implied happy memories it occurred to me that the music of life is only produced by a lot of underlying effort and the mechanics to create it. I therefore concentrated on the winding sounds and noises produced by the mechanism itself. These were slowed down, reversed and manipulated using plugins including GRM evolution.
"Fragments of the pitched material were slowed down and allowed to breakthrough the inner workings for brief beautiful moments. The majority of the pitched content is layered over the more mechanical sounds as a metaphor for authentic life, all the more unique and fascinating for its textures."
Composition by Alison Beattie.
This is part of the Obsolete Sounds project, the world’s biggest collection of disappearing sounds and sounds that have become extinct – remixed and reimagined to create a brand new form of listening. Explore the whole project at https://cities
