Field Recording

Intricate Frictions

Curtains of water shimmer in fading light. Distinct zones of white noise showers.

Drips, splats, trickles, droplets, flow.

Wind activated waves of intensity, the outside swaying, rippling trees blown in through the huge jagged stone window in a wash of noise that fills the entire sound spectrum.

Every surface damp.

Listening to Cathedral Cave. Words and field recordings over on my Substack.

Emily explores the cave. Photo by Curtis James.

The writing was originally published in Boulderdash Zine 1 available here. Already on to their 4th edition, Boulderdash presents writing around the themes of Stones, Drones and Noise. Highly recommend checking it out.



Live performance at Spirit of Gravity

Looking forward to performing with Ascsoms and Jo Thomas at Spirit of Gravity in Brighton on Thursday 2nd March. It will be the first time I share some early ideas from South of Shoreham Port.

Over two years of listening and recording around Shoreham Port I’ve had many experiences of what I describe as Phantom Sounds. They are fleeting, carried on the wind,  dissipating the moment I turn my attention to them, leaving me to wonder if they were real or imagined.   I’ll share extracts from my collection of field recordings and the Buchla Electric Music Box will provide the phantoms. This is a first public sharing of part of an ambitious large scale project focussed on the area around Shoreham Port, which sits just over the road from my house.