Night Escape is the first in a series of works that will explore the soundscape that surrounds Atlantic Centre for the Arts, Florida where I have attended residencies with composers Jonty Harrison and Natasha Barrett.
Night Escape explores a night-time soundscape using a field recording as the source material. Crickets dominate this field recording. I find the sound of crickets extremely relaxing and calming and their presence reinforces the fact that I am somewhere else, exploring and travelling because their sound to me is somehow exotic. I have restricted myself to using one night-time recording, which facilitates the exploration of this recording in detail.20:00 – 21:00 NightEscape was composed using a ring of 8 loudspeakers. The piece offers the listener time to immerse themselves in a meditative and calming soundscape, taking time out of busy schedules to pause, reflect and escape. This piece was composed at EMS,Stockholm, March 2018.