Who could guess an accidental simultaneous playback of Istanbul field recordings and Nick Cave’s soundtrack for “The Road” would lead to the creation of an ambient track? One rainy night, it just happened.
A couple of weeks ago, there was a segment on Swedish national radio where they played field recordings reporter Sara Lundin had captured in Istanbul. I recorded and saved the clips on my harddrive, as I always do with good ambience, figuring that sooner or later they’d come to good use.
Late one night, I accidentally played one of them at the same time as starting Nick Cave’s soundtrack for “The Road” (that’s the beauty of the Mac OSX play-button: it triggers both iTunes and Spotify).
I sounded beautiful. I had to experiment with it.
The ingredients: Sara’s field recordings, “Home” from “The Road” soundtrack, granulator, distortion, a couple of old piano recordings from music sessions past and five hours with rain beating on my windows, a night in May 2010.
The result: 10 minutes of humble ambient.
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