Frogland by Brona Martin

Travelling to different places introduces us to new exotic soundscapes often dominated by pulsing rhythmic and static musical patterns. Frogland explores night-time field recordings from Florida and Brisbane which are dominated by crickets and frogs. A variety of sound design tools have been used to create this work such as spectral analysis and transformation and granular processing.
I would like to thank composer Rick Nance for allowing me to use some of his Frog recordings for this piece.
I was also inspired by Francis Dhomont’s fantastic work Signé Dionysos 1983-91 while writing this piece and I had a wonderful conversation with him about this work at the KLANG! Festival, June 2019 in Montpellier.

Commissioned by the University of Greenwich in partnership with L-ISA Immersive Sound Art to create a new work for their Ocean Surround Sound system in Highgate, London.
This project was funded by the Higher Education Innovation Fund and I had the opportunity to works alongside project director Dr. Andrew Knight-Hill (University of Greenwich) and Paula Fairfield (Sound Designer for Game of Thrones). I would also like to thank Dr. Andrew Hill for organising this project.
Frogland is also an exploration of ambisonic workflow and working in Higher Order Ambisonics. Composed at EMS studios, Stockholm in September 2019.