Big Ben vs. Hamley's

Alex McHattie creates a new pieces from recordings of Big Ben and Hamley's at Heathrow as part of our Oblique Strategies project.

He says: 'I took the two cards as quite literal or practical working modes. Using the first as an advocation for looping a number of repetitive phrases chopped from the two sounds used. The second to re-examine a common process of production, rather than adding effects or loading preferential parameters used in previous sessions and then tweaking them to achieve desired results. I began by using familiar modules in their raw form and exploring the limits of their customisation, finding editable parameters in deeper menus beyond those I have previously used.'