SCOTT, SIMON - Migrations

"Simon Scott on "Red Square": "Field recordings captured during a day under Moscow's Red Square in the underground metro in 2015. It has a narrative of motion as my microphones move with me through a vast sounding environment. The space reveals the aural diversity of the people moving beneath the Russian city of Moscow, the complex acoustics, and complex rhythms mixed together in a subterranean space. These communitive sonic events transformed my perception of space and time as reverberant boundaries led my ear into unknown acoustic destinations." Simon Scott on "Murmurations": "Recorded in March 2018 at RSPB Strumpshaw Fen in, Norfolk, UK using DPA 4061 microphones. I was showing Australian sound artist Lawrence English around the Fens of East Anglia, when he requested we head to Buckenham to find a flock of crows roosting. I recorded the spectacular murmurations of thousands of crows, rooks, and jackdaws, as the spring sun slowly set at dusk, and deer ran across the marshes. The field recordings are accompanied by a gradually shifting modular synth tone, that musically represents the slow change colors, until the light fell off the horizon. Photography and design by Jon Wozencroft. Vinyl mastered at SPS Mastering; cut by Jason @ Transition. Edition of 300. Simon Scott is a British composer, mastering engineer, and sound artist from The Fens in Cambridgeshire, England. His albums: Soundings (TO 112CD, 2019), FloodLines (TONE 053CD, 2016), Between (12k, 2012), Insomni (ASH 11-4CD, 2015), and Below Sea Level (12k/TouchLine, 2012). His work explores creative methodologies of field recording, the process of active listening, the implications of recording the natural world using technology and the manipulation of natural sounds used for musical composition. He has recently collaborated with artists Taylor Deupree and Marcus Fischer (Between), Fennesz, Claire M Singer, Philip Jeck, James Blackshaw, Rafael Anton Irisarri (Orcas, The Sight Below), Nils Frahm, and many more. He is also in UK group Slowdive." - Touch .