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– for Esme –
Benllech Beach,
Isle of Anglesey,
North Wales. July and August 2003
Putting a shell to our ear to see if we can 'hear the sea' is perhaps the earliest experience any of us has of transforming sound artificially: the resonant characteristics of the shell filter the sounds coming from outside to create a wholly fictitious but nevertheless magical aural impression of the sea. Benllech Shells employs computer technology to much the same ends, lending an extraordinary aspect to ordinary and familiar sounds. It also tries to draw some parallels with the way that memory transforms childhood events – in this case the sights and sounds of the seaside – to create an often fictitious but nevertheless magical impression of the past. Benllech Shells was composed in the Electroacoustic Music Studios of Bangor University in the summer of 2003. © 2003 A P Lewis, University of
Wales, Bangor.
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Other notes:
Arrivals
Ascent
Benllech Shells
Cable Bay
double (serenâd)
INT/ext
Llanddwyn Skies
môr(G)wyn
Penmon Point
Scherzo
Storm-song
Time and Fire