It's All Around Us

Just to quickly say, thanks to everyone who was in The Perfect 5th last night. It was great to hang out with some old friends, drink slightly too much, and go on to play some of my new songs - which it would seem, all went down really well.

I'm reading a book at the moment which I picked up in Bath central library. It really discusses some of the key ideas behind ambient, soundscape, noise and experimental music. I'm really tuning into some of these ideas at the moment, thinking about how sounds move around spaces, how different sounds collide to create new textures, and how these sounds affect us, not just in a mental way, but also in a physical way.

An interesting idea in the book is that the earth is constantly emitting a low (below the register of human hearing) rumble which is perhaps caused by changes in air pressure across the planets surface, causing the earth to resonate like a drum skin. Although we can't hear this sound, we can definitely sense it's presence.

The book also talks about the idea that minute sounds, reverberations, build up in rooms, again without us actually hearing them, but causing atmospheres to inhabit spaces which affect how we feel in that environment.

All this is excellent and is giving me huge amounts of inspiration with the planning of my proposal for the Appledore Arts festival, news of which will be coming soon.