Cambridge Road Excerpt
Cambridge Road - written for a multimedia project examining the effect constant media references to terrorism have on ordinary, everyday family life. It was also part of the Sound Design exhibition at the 2007 Prague Quadrennial.
This recording has changed and evolved over the past eighteen months, this is the current version in six months time, well who knows!
The rain is from mixture of sources, most of it was recorded in Manchester but I added some elements from similar recordings I’d made in Louisville KY and my ‘real home’ in Brighton. The radio stuff at the end is from my library of sounds and historical documentary recordings. The music element was simply done using Propellerheads Reason and it was all mixed in Adobe Audition. I wanted the music to have an easy listening, comfortable feel reflecting a steady, organised but repetitive life, a person safe and warm inside a familiar room and protected from the threatening weather beyond its walls. The screeching guitars (rather obviously) represent the constant bombardment of fear-mongering and worrying news (which is often no more than just pure speculation disguised as fact, as Bush and Blair prove) intent on attempting to grind each and everyone of us down, day after day, after day. The explosions and alarms are my memories of a terrorist attack on Manchester, a deathly silence of noise, the noise of deathly silence.
There is nothing better than a rainy afternoon spent in bed.
The Cambridge Road Project in an open ended mixed media reflection, gestating daily in my mind, that will one day reach fruition…when time and money allows.
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