"WM-EX35 captures my nostalgia for personal stereos and uses sections of the original recording to convey the mechanical action of switching between tracks, coupled with the lo-fi quality of mix tapes; intentional flaws retained to reflect chewed sections of re-spooled tape. The overhearing of snatched conversations and the faint inkling of leaked music emanating from the ears of others.
"The Sony WM-EX35 was just one of the many Walkmans kicking around during my teens and well into my twenties and I never went anywhere without one. I liked observing the synchronicities in the world around me, as they played out in time to the music.
"To me it almost felt cinematic, which is what I wanted to portray in the musical elements of the piece. These were created using photographed images of cassette tapes that have been converted to synthesised sounds. A nod to the 80’s and early 90s, when digital synthesisers and the popularity of the Walkman were pr
