Fractured obsolescence

Composition by Mandy Hampson. 

"The sound of the coffee grinder sounded rhythmic to me, it sounded like it had bits in it to cut up and repurpose. I felt it could layer up and cut down, it had parts that I could build a wash of sound with and create a world to drift into. 

"So I set off cutting it up and effecting it out of the harsh reality sound it arrived as into something ethereal and transient. I was trying to break it down, rebuild it, make it sound like a thought remembrance of a sound and a place somewhere. I wanted to make it reflective, to calm it down, reduce it to an essence. I wanted to make it evocative and unrecognisable from its initial self. 

"I put it into Logic and cut up the bits that made a “beat” and pulled out the longer washy parts. Then I Missy Elliot-ed it - flipped it and reversed it. Took it out of Logic and put it through AUM to break it down some more, and to put a massive reverb on it via the rymdigare app. 

"Then I took it back in to Logic, layered i