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Sound Clip: The Dying Breath of Summer by Steven Brown

This collection of sounds represents my response to the Soundscape which surrounds our lives, the everyday sounds that all, in someway, define our perceptual, emotional, spiritual and psychological spaces. Almost all of the sounds contained within these recordings were captured whilst undertaking the ordinary, often tedious, repetitive everyday tasks and chores. The sort which we all carry out on most days. Some were recorded because they distracted me, others as sonic memories or as an effort towards audio ecology. None of these source recordings were rehearsed, set up (technically or artistically), or performed in any way. These pieces of processed sound were produced, on a rainy afternoon, as I tried to discover the hidden depths which lie behind the original source material. Unlike a more traditional musician, who often practices, notates and then performs his, or her, music any number of times in front of an audience, or in a recording studio, none of the work contained here has been documented. The original session files, track listings, processor and parameter settings were deleted immediately after recording. I will never be able, nor do I want to, recreate this work live, or in a studio, ever again. As such, these are recordings are brief flashes of my life which I revisited and momentarily responded to in a (physically and emotionally) different time and space with an almost total disregard to any technical competence which I posses.

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