The neverending sheen of insect noise

Reimagined by Irving Kinnersley. 

"I was responding to a sonic world which is totally different to that which surrounds me every day in the Somerset countryside. One of the dominant characteristics of the sound file is its sheer 'noisiness' - bird calls, wing noise, buffalo grunts(?,) but covering it all the never ending sheen of insect noise. In response I decided to extract various sonic elements from the file and treat them to various forms of processing in order to form a pallet as a basis for the pieces. When composing I was thinking of abstraction in painting where the source material and aesthetic requirements of the work merge into a whole. The Sonic Mmabolela underpins all three 'abstracts, disappearing and reappearing sustaining the pieces as the water sustains the animals of the Mmbolela Waterhole. 

The sound file while continuous contains three separate pieces."

Part of the Sounding Nature project - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/sounding-nature