Two different small-size guitars; one a "proper" electric with microtonal frets in the top half of the fingerboard, the other a toy but with metal strings tuned to the same scale as an egg slicer. Two different recordings of each, all through…

Sounds of breathing, mediated by passing through a very clapped-out cornet without a proper mouthpiece; a little reverb added in post. Submitted to Sound-In "Foggy" for 3-10/11/2022.

Solo, unaltered dizi (Chinese bamboo flute) in a slightly reverberant location. Submitted to Sound-In "Foggy" for 3-10/11/2022.

The result of misapplied noise reduction to Dada Is Nothing. I didn't notice that the app was set to "residue", so what was left is what would normally be removed. It sounded so good that I decided to keep it (after normalizing). Submitted to…

Using the words of the phrase, chopped into individual segments of different length and each one repeated, giving different combinations. Submitted to Sound-In "Dada" for 27/10 - 4/11/2022.

Another one with the crutch, this time bowed using the Jim-bow. Submitted to Sound-In "Shorter Days / Shorter Sounds" for 20-27/10/2022.

Voice and 1-string wooden crutch. Reverb added later. Submitted to Sound-In "Shorter Days / Shorter Sounds" for 20-27/10/2022.

An accidental message, which was mostly illegible to begin with, made more so with the aid of Audacity effects. Submitted to Sound-In "What Does Thinking Sound Like?" for 6-13/10/2022.

Trombone and tenor sax, recorded separately. No attempt was made to coordinate one with the other; after doing the staccato thing on sax I thought it might be nice to contrast that with longer notes on the trombone. Very minor change of tempo…

Same recording as In Vitro Veritas, but different effects - the main one being a sliding pitch/tempo scale, with phase shifting and wah thrown in for good measure. Submitted to Sound-In "What Does Happiness Sound Like?" for 22-29/09/2022.

The sound of the glass stopper for a bottle of gin, struck and rubbed against the neck of the bottle. Submitted to Sound-In "What Does Happiness Sound Like?" for 22-29-09-2022.

Same sound source as En Gin E, but different recording. "Speed" changed in Audacity, resulting in slowed rhythm and dropped pitch; reverb is natural, from the original recording. Submitted to Sound-In "What Does Happiness Sound Like?" 22-29/9/2022.

Sound source is the processor in my MacBook Pro, picked up using a device constructed in a workshop led by my friend Rob Cruickshank a few years ago (which also included the making of contact mics using piezo elements). Original recording was…

A rather slow one for sure, but buried somewhere in there is a sort of jig rhythm. Made from sounds of runout grooves on an LP with really pronounced surface noise (not that it matters, but a Canadian pressing of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick…

Recording of getting into the car and starting up, with various sections of the procedure undergoing radical changes. Submitted to Sound-In "In a Car..." for 8-15/8/2022.

Mostly a straight recording of jaw harp, but with some modified undercurrents. Submitted to Sound-In "Supermarket Themes..." for 1-8/9/2022.

Taken from an old archival tape reel - probably mid-'90s - it took me a while to figure out what I had done here. Written on the tape box was the word "Slowbird", and it eventually dawned on me that the obvious theremin part was dubbed onto a…

Decided to play around a bit with the individual files for "Quiet Table" so ran one part through a wah-wah effect and the other was given some reverse reverb; the whole thing was stretched three times. Also submitted to Sound-In "Intuitive Determinacy…

Unaltered recordings of a toy piano (the "quiet" bit), and a metal frame that appears to have been for the top of a patio table. Ok, maybe not *entirely* unaltered, as I did change the tempo of the piano track to make it closer in length to the…

Cobbled together from a few vocal tracks each run through an EHX Voice Box with different settings, and some metal objects modified in Audacity. Submitted to Sound-In "Humdinger" for 4-11/8/2022.