02 / 18:32 / January 8, 2013 / Balcony View,
Cameron Street / 54.587750, 5.929044 / In the summer of 2013 I had the chance to spend time composing the Sonic Lab – an incredible performance space in the Sonic Arts Research Centre / It offered me the challenge to compose a piece for 32channels / I decided to try and reimagine the balcony of my flat at the time and transplant its sonic world into that of the Sonic Lab / I therefore made 8 channel recordings to be used as layers within the piece – approximating the configuration of the speakers and positioning myself where the listener would be in the concert hall / I therefore spent many hours recording from this balcony, which overlooks botanic railway line towards the city centre, and became familiar with the its patterns and rhythms / Fluctuating randomly between calm and urgent though seemingly uneventful, for me it is representative of a typical Belfast street scene at any given time // A binaural recording of the 32channel electroacoustic composition Balconry can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/aidandeery/balconry binauralreduction