The music hiding in everyday sounds, with Paul Cheese

Is there something sonically, that links everything together? 

Over the years, I’ve cycled across the world, collecting thousands of sounds and creating music from them. And the more I listen, the more I realise that certain notes and tempos appear consistently across nature, industry, people, and places.

For example, stepping outside, I’ll hear a blackbird’s call, and it’s the same tempo as the sound of a tarpaulin blowing in the wind on the back of a truck. Or the low hum of a helicopter vibrating at the same frequency as the buzz of a bee.

In my talk, I want to share these sonic discoveries and show how, by pulling together 3500 to 4000 different sounds, you can create something new: A piece of music. It’s all about finding the connections in the rhythm and notes that surround us.

Paul Cheese

Paul Cheese is a musician, music producer and sound artist based in Kent. He is a forerunner in creating music from found sound and recording in unusual places, and has cycled over 32,000 miles to locations around the world  - On the tops of mountains, to deep underground, old places, new places and even underwater,  from pill boxes to ice caves, the Australian bush to the Grand Canyon - recording sounds and creating music from the sounds he has collected. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49715500 

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