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This needs a little explaing, so here goes: this is basically a piece put together for the fringe festival attatched to Tracy Emin's Folkestone Triennial. The initial brief was to create a piece of music based on a set of sampled recordings of the Leas Lift, a Victorian water lift and famous landmark of that part of the south coast of the UK. The source material, recordings of the water pumps and the mechanics of the lifts, immediately suggested obvious dance rhythms but rather than doing something predictable I ran a few of them through a (cheap) spectrum analysis and then tried to match them to suitable orchestral sounds. This is the result - it's not tonal in any sense of the word, although tiny fragments of tonality can be glimpsed throughout - I like to think it's a suggestion of what it might sound like if you replaced all the cogs, wheels and motors of the lifts with percussion instruments and let it speak for itself.
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Great concept. I enjoyed it. Keep up the good work.