Meet Correspondence

CORRESPONDENCE was my main music project between 2016 and 2020, following a decade of hobbyist solo recording experiments and a couple of years playing guitar in a noisy pop-rock band; Molars.

I was keen to explore new approaches and to reflect more honestly the music I was into at that time. I also had far more spare time on my hands back then, and enough patience to spend hours editing samples and weaving together these intricate sound patterns. - Tone Formation B on the other side. I was into mid-century minimalism and process-based composition at the time, and these were essentially demos, using simple sequences and layers of tones generated by a Casiotone keyboard.

The other tracks on the Playing Field is fairly representative of what I was trying to achieve, with maybe a few too many ideas thrown into the mix, and it ended up getting played on late night BBC Radio 3 and featured on a few blogs.

Another early track written for the album was Four Versions. I was more interested in ambient, kankyō ongaku and durational drone music at that time, letting ideas play out in the background with limited human intervention.

With In Copenhagen was written after a trip there in January 2019, and there is a specific visual reference for this track: Naja Salto's Havet omkring Danmark (The sea around Denmark) which is a tapestry piece I saw at the Design Museum. The track explores different variations of a short sequence of notes, falling into stillness as the chimes are replaced by drones.

Another loop-based track is I’m excited to give these tracks a new lease of life through the Free Music Archive and enable anyone to share and make use of them under a CC BY license.

There's also an intersection here with my professional interests as an academic librarian, advocating for open access publication of research outputs under similar .

It was fun to revisit these tracks and pick out some favorites for this post! I've recently returned to the practice of field recording in a deeper way as the basis for new compositions, rather than just background texture. - Correspondence