Lead moving sound

Composition by Owen Vince. 

"‘Lead moving sound’ makes use of a sound from the Obsolete Sounds archive – a rapid plastic shuffling of a cassette’s spools being wound. With the composition, I processed the sound; stretching and slowing its duration. I was interested in drawing out the mechanical gears and teeth that make up the cassette – exploring both its fragility and its hardiness. 

"In the composition, I imagined the music that this ‘imagined’ cassette might hold – using a mixture of processed, slowed-down samples that I’d earlier recorded while browsing the internet (Japanese pop music; advertising), in addition to my own body (moving in my chair; breathing; typing; rubbing a piece of paper in my hand). 

"I thought about the cassette as a kind of archive of its own, a blank box that soaks up the incidental ‘music’ of everyday life. Slowed down, processed, the cassette winding became a kind of heavy clanking, as if pieces of wood and stone were being moved around. Foregrounding