Terraform
Wading through the still water of the marshland rivulets, leading out to the sea. Still, warm, close, and suffocating.
Walking beneath the canopied trees at night. The sky overhead is obscured. Close, dense and claustrophobic.
Opening to a wide lake. Sleeping along its banks in the hot morning sunshine.
Paths through a dewy garden with many fruit trees, arbours, and streams. Cool air and shafts of dappled sunlight.
The uncanny landscapes of dreams and memories are often made up of elements of the physical world. Terraform is a work which explores the overlaps and mistranslations between these two using the abstracted language of sound. Based on four of my own remembered and dreamed environments, synthesisers and low drones are used to recreate their distinct moods. These slowly drift into one another, creating a sense of movement through space as uplifting pieces descend into more eerie compositions.
Elements of the real physical environment are layered upon these tracks using field recordings from the North West Bay River, Waterworks reserve, the Derwent River waterline and Maria Island. The play between the synthesised and recorded worlds mimics the influence of the real world of the psychological and vise versa.