Solid Phase (2009) 7’36 (Fixed media - 8 channels)

Solid Phase is composed around underwater hydrophone recordings made in the winter of 2008 on the canal systems around the West Midlands, United Kingdom. Interactions are heard between ageing canal boat hulls and the frozen water that surrounds them as they they rock on their moorings, influenced only by wind. Some of these interactions are subtle rubbing or scraping gestures, others are more vigorous collisions.

Much of the sonic material remains unprocessed in terms of timbre and pitch. Therefore, compositional processes were very much driven by the surroundings and natural influences on the sounding materials. Even though very little processing was undertaken on the original recordings, much of the material maintains an acousmatic, abstract quality, as the sounds were sourced from an often unheard and unfamiliar source.