Pengempu stream

"I really like the movement and the almost textural quality of the hydrophone recordings. They have a physicality that recording via microphone doesn't capture. The recording also captured a clear relationship of immersion, movement and depth, which I immediately associated with the levels of consciousness in sleep. I took apart the recoding and separated zones of equalisation into lows and midrange and highs. The separations were assigned reverb which was adjusted throughout the length of the piece to suggest movement and changes in depth of the hydrophone and subsequently the listeners perceived spatial relationship. I felt a keen sense of trying to equate the the water flow and depth with levels of sleep , that of slow immersion and depth. The harmonic structure is made from the original recording, synthesizers and sampled tingklik, a percussion instrument from Indonesia."

Pengempu waterfall reimagined by Robert Dansby. 

Part of the Music for Sleep project - for more information and to hear more sounds from the collection, visit https://citiesandmemory.com/music-for-sleep/

Credit: Photo by Lena Shekhovtsova