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Not all of the sounds in Bilocation were 'found' on location: some were specially made in other unusual acoustic spaces and are more conventionally 'musical'. An ancient church in Wiltshire provided a natural ambience for some of these. Sounds were recorded in the studio; then played back in the empty church and binaurally re-recorded with the natural reverb of the space. Composer Steve Marshall also recorded himself 'overtone singing' in the church. Individual notes were recorded in different parts of the building, then combined into slowly-evolving chords that move around the soundfield.
For one section, sounds were played back through speakers that rotated slowly around a fixed dummy head.
The galloping horse sequence was recorded from the horse! Steve recorded it in Epping Forest, near London, using a pair of mics attached to his feet...
The most startlingly three-dimensional sound has to be the helicopter near the end of Bilocation. During a late night recording from a rooftop in the East End of London, a police car comes racing by with its siren going as it chases a stolen car. Close behind is a police helicopter that gets closer and then hovers directly overhead. The spatial imaging is so strong that most listeners look up when they hear it!

  
If you like detailed sleevenotes, then look no further! Here's a complete list of all the sounds contained in Bilocation, and how they were recorded.
The tracklist can be printed out, to read whilst playing the album:

TRACKLIST


 

 

 

 
The Wiltshire church where many of the re-recorded sounds in Bilocation were made. The church is Saxon (1000 yrs old) but a Yew tree next to it is estimated to be twice that age -suggesting that this was a pre-Christian holy place. It certainly has a very strange atmosphere. The acoustics are superb, as the stone building is empty and has non-parallel walls.

 

 

 


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