Audio Sample 31: Quiet merging of real and synthesised sounds (38s)
After 12 performances, this was always the section I enjoyed the most. After the intensity of the train take-off it was an opportunity for the listener (including me) to enter a meditative state, immersed between a world of real and synthesised sounds. Indeed, most audiences would linger after the composition had ended, engaged in a deep listening to the real sounds of the Trench. Note the crossing signals, passing trains, and at 22s, the distant tone: the real and synthesised disappear and are replaced by a transformed sonic ecology.
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