"The original recording resonates heat and has dryer sound present throughout. Background noise of machines and workers voices add depth and diversity. I imagined the process and machine based journey the tea went on inside the drying machine ( a tea ritual based on preparation inside a tea ritual?).
"I chopped the track into sections colour coding voice, drone and ambient sounds. I then re positioned them in a DAW and using basic mallets and synths layered and re positioned the audio whilst playing live against it. Finally a structure presented itself and a basic melody / refrain. T- Drone was complete."
Composition by Andy Billington.
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://citiesandmemory.com/obsolete-sounds
