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The Singing Wires of Point Reyes

by Ian Baxter

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Point Reyes is a headland north of San Francisco where the wind whips 5000 miles across the Pacific from Japan…When I visited the wind nearly knocked me off my feet and had sent all the telephone and electricity wires there into a bewildering tumult of sound.

The Singing Wires of Point Reyes is another attempt by me to render the memories and feelings of listening to a natural soundscape into a composition made in the studio.

Note Nov 2022:

Composed as part of my Electroacoustic studies. The sound source, if I remember correctly, is a child's glockenspiel put through the USSS granulator and the chord structure is all dyads based on 13ths.

These two pieces (along with Memories of the Waves at Big Sur) were both inspired by a trip to California, following in the footsteps of Jack Kerouac around San Francisco and Berkley. I made many field recordings and - as is often the case when one is out of their immediate environment - my awareness of the sounds around me were heightened.

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released November 6, 2022

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Ian Baxter Sheffield, UK

I'm a sound artist based in Sheffield UK. My primary interest is in the creation of slowly evolving soundscapes. This takes in aspects of traditional electro-acoustic composition and an interest in getting my hands dirty with electronics and computer programming. I often seek to compose in a way where the outcome is not necessarily foreseen (one definition of experimental music) ... more

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