On Memory

For about a decade now, on and off, I've maintained a photoblog. I've loved photography as a form of expression ever since my teens, and generally I approached photography as a way to capture something faithfully; or at least as faithfully as photography will allow (that's a debate to have elsewhere). My photoblog, on the other hand, was and still is all about what I can find and capture with a mobile phone, using apps to over-process the result, to capture, record, publish, look back on, a sense or feeling or a need to illustrate a thought that was running around my head at the time.

Sometimes it would just be creating an image for the pure sake of it.

Recently I've been feeling the need to try and do the same with sound. To do something that isn't technical, that isn't constrained by a recognition of what I can't do and don't know, that is purely about experimenting, about dialling up the "effect", about making something that satisfies me and works to illustrate a thought or a feeling that I want to revisit in months and years to come.

On Memory is my first attempt at doing this. It's the first entry in my soundblog.

This should be seen as part of a soundtrack to my photoblog, sounds created to accompany me on my walks in the local glen, sounds created to work with the feelings that some of my photoblog images invoke in me, sounds that have a meaning to me, that will remind me for years to come.