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Hanlith Bridge

from The Engine Room by Ted Westwood

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This is perhaps the most sentimental piece in the work revolving around a field recording captured as I was leaving Scalegill for the last time as an inhabitant of the house, with a car filled with boxes, instruments and bits of furniture. I stood and captured the sound of the birds and the river Aire at the end of the driveway, an area known as Hanlith Bridge. The piece fell together relatively quickly and naturally when a short segment of a seemingly unrelated piece I was mixing looped in Pro Tools by accident. A number of days previous, I had been asked to record a piece commissioned for an ensemble led by a bass oboe. Naturally I jumped at the opportunity as the instrument has rarely been recorded nor has had pieces commissioned for it. When mixing the piece, the short segment heard in the piece started to loop. I sampled it and experimented with GRM’s Shuffling tool to create overlap and repetition between portions of the sample. This resulted in a beautiful yet simple combination of pitches played in the bass oboe and flute that sounds almost like an accordion. With time stretching and pitch manipulation came the basis of the composition.

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from The Engine Room, released October 25, 2017

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