This Is Not O'Callaghan Strand

Part of our Dada Sound project (February 2016) - see more at http://www.citiesandmemory.com/dadasounds By Dave Santorum (ErisianLib). "Collage, reappropriation, assemblage and abstraction.

The strand runs alongside the river and at the bridge end is a set of traffic lights. Irish lights have a distinctive sound and this beeping was cleaned, processed and used in place of oscillators in five synthesizers built in Native Instruments' Reaktor. Loops of manually cut beeps were also overlaid at the start and end of the piece. All synth parts, including the bass, were created from these samples, recorded and then processed with appropriate filters, amplifiers and reverb in Propellerhead Reason, which was the primary DAW. The drum sounds, comprising of two kits, were created from a sample of the waves at the jetty beside the Rowing Club hut at the far end of the Strand. These were cut and processed within the Kong drum machine - the unprocessed (but cut) correct samples without effects and pitching can be heard at the very end of the piece.

Chance played a good part in the process - the synthesizer with arpeggiation was random apart from the first two and final 16 bars. Also, it was my first time using Reaktor and so the fact that all the synths ended up working is more down to chance than to having any idea what I was doing."