The Ballad of Coronasilence feat. Hugh Sykes
May 28, 2020, 01:35 PM
London lockdown sound reimagined by Sherman and Field.
"We particularly responded to the focus on silence in the field recording. The absence of one sound creates space for the hearing of another. Shifting listening from a work building elsewhere to being at home in a quieter than normal suburb has had the same effect for us, on the other side of the world.
"Our lived experience of home isolation since March has been one where the external environment has been filled with birdsong and the routine passes of aircraft from Amberley air force base some days and nights. In between, the dampened neighbourhood activity has shifted the typical area quietness. The positive outcome of this period of home isolation has been a slower world around us.
"We combined the field recording with a selected sample lifted from an improvised work created during our own period of isolation. This was recorded late one evening using effects-drenched guitar, analogue synth devices and drum machine."
Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds
"We particularly responded to the focus on silence in the field recording. The absence of one sound creates space for the hearing of another. Shifting listening from a work building elsewhere to being at home in a quieter than normal suburb has had the same effect for us, on the other side of the world.
"Our lived experience of home isolation since March has been one where the external environment has been filled with birdsong and the routine passes of aircraft from Amberley air force base some days and nights. In between, the dampened neighbourhood activity has shifted the typical area quietness. The positive outcome of this period of home isolation has been a slower world around us.
"We combined the field recording with a selected sample lifted from an improvised work created during our own period of isolation. This was recorded late one evening using effects-drenched guitar, analogue synth devices and drum machine."
Part of the #StayHomeSounds project, documenting and reimagining the sounds of the global coronavirus lockdown around the world - for more information, see http://www.citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds