Clermont Horns

2020

fixed medium - 5.1

4’31”

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[Boulevard Lafayette, Clermont Ferrand, France - 17 November 2018]

This piece is made one from one single field recording I made when I was in Clermont Ferrand gathering data for a project with photographer John Perivolaris and writer Ed Welch. I heard the sound of car horns in the distance and immediately reached for my recording device, entranced by the harmonies of the constantly smearing car horn sounds. At this point, all three of us were unaware that this was the first weekend of the Gilets Jaunes demonstrations in France in Nov 2018.

Clermont Horns was composed in Studio Alpha at VICC (Visby International Composers Centre), Sweden.

The piece forms part of the Aides… mémoires… project with Jonty Harrison, consisting of short form pieces (3-6’) made from single field recordings. To visit the project, please go to https://bit.ly/aidesmemoires where hi-resolution concert performance versions of the piece can be downloaded.