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Tim Wall
tim13531@gmail.com

I am a musician, teacher and social worker interested in the power of music as a tool for social change and have been volunteering with Joy Of Sound since late 2015.

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// ABOUT THE TRACK
At first I found it difficult to approach creating a new work from the Redmond files as they sounded so amazing as they are. I wanted to keep this original aesthetic and avoid detracting from

the power that can be heard. As a Joy of Sound volunteer I have experienced what goes into creating these moments of group improvisation that can be heard on the Redmond files, and I decided that in my piece I wanted to somehow represent the process of a Joy Of Sound session – the tuning of the instruments, the social environment and the culminating collective sound creation. To achieve this I recorded sounds during one of the weekly JOS sessions in Hackney, cutting and sampling the sounds of instruments and conversation. I latched on to the sound of the tampura drone which is used to tune the instruments at the beginning of a session, and decided to use this as a base and constant element to link the different sounds and sections throughout the piece. Others had requested that I include my clarinet in the piece as I have used it in JOS sessions. I conceived of the beginning of the piece as an 'alaap' improvisation as found in Indian classical music, where the notes and mood of a raag (mode or scale) are established. I then took some rhythmic elements from the Redmond files, and expanded this groove by recording live tabla rhythms. The piece culminates in an ecstatic section, with the clarinet, tabla and other elements eventually fading to leave just the powerful original Redmond recording.

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from The Redmond Files, a Joy of Sound Production, released August 5, 2016

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