Fear of flying

Daniel Williams reimagines his sound of a flight from Bristol airport, October 2015:

"The original recording is actually made up of two tracks. The first is a standard stereo take from the inside of the aircraft, whilst the second is a simultaneous Mono recording from a contact mic on the floor of the plane. I have adjusted the volumes on the two recordings so we move between them as the track progresses.

As I recorded this, absorbing in my headphones the wall of sound emanating from the plane. I considered how if the "broadband" noise of the planes engines contains amplitudes in all frequency ranges. Then it must be possible to break them down and isolate just a few, Before reconstructing them into that hellish roar.

The memory piece is a result of me messing around with this concept using a comb filter and a frequency shifter."