I am a composer and producer from the north Highlands. I live in a rural area of Ross-shire, surrounded by farms, hills, and woodland. I’ve grown up completely immersed in natural sights and sounds and this has highly influenced my childhood and upbringing. Subsequently, the music I create is deeply rooted in this context.
I chose this project as I wanted to delve deeper into my own musical process and find a way to make music not only inspired by where I live, but also directly responding to it. This project is a collection of audio-visual compositions to showcase my practical research into how my local natural world directly and indirectly impacts my musical identity.
Inspired by thematic concepts taken from the artistic and natural world, such as Pointillism, fractals, and analogue imperfection, this project seeks to reflect them in audio form.
To create this project, I have composed several ambient tracks that respond to footage gathered from my local area, all correlating to somewhere I consider to be important to me, such as the barley fields around my home or the bluebell forests on the hills surrounding Strathpeffer. The project showcases several locations, taking inspiration from closeup photography as a homage to these unobserved spaces within the context of a much larger landscape.
Audiences are encouraged to apply their own context to the work, and find ways in which it may hold connections to their own life experiences.