Mahler in Kings Cross (collaboration with The Norfolk Fjords) by Audio Obscura

This piece is a collaboration between The Norfolk Fjords and Audio Obscura and features strings by the Sound Celestial Orchestra and is part of a project to radically reconstruct the final two sections of Mahlers incomplete 10th symphony, setting the new version in and around London's Kings Cross Saint Pancrass Station. It is a sound collage made up of field recordings made in and around Kings Cross Train Station, re-composed string orchestrations and samples.
The field recordings around King Cross Station, London were recorded in the summer of 2013. At the time they had a free piano in the middle of station just near the eurostar check in area. People can play as they wait for trains.

There are two primary samples, both appearing with permission of the following artists;

Narration and guitar - Tay_ploops (Jessica Gabriel), Track: A Cyst Dance. This piece enters the track at 3.20
https://soundcloud.com/tapeloops
Violin and Sounds - Adam Cadell, Track: Jamestown. This piece enters the track at 3.39
https://soundcloud.com/adam-cadell-1

The strings that enter around 5.45 till the end of the track are performed by the Sound Celestial Orchestra https://soundcloud.com/sound-celestial-orchestra and are a re-scored take on the later parts of the Mahler 10th symphony. These parts of the Symphony were incomplete at the time of Mahlers death and these later pieces are controversial due to the fact there is no actual score by Mahler himself but only a few hundred bars of draft work by the composer.

Musicologist Deryck Cooke is credited for the resulting score of the complete Symphony, completed in the 1960s. This track is therefore itself a radical re-interpretation or re-composition of this Cooke piece. It was re-scored and recorded in a number of sessions between March-May 2015. The string instruments you here are all played into computers and are electronically altered manipulations. The strings were originally performed by members of the Song Celestial Orchestra and mixed and manipulated by The Norfolk Fjords and Audio Obscura.

The whole piece was realised and edited by The Norfolk Fjords with help and direction by Audio Obscura who played all other sounds. It is released under a creative commons license.
August 2015.