Benoît returns with some work in progress

Aaliyah and Will are treating themselves for Aaliyah's last recording session, welcoming Benoît André to the new studio, for him to play some of his work in progress. Benoît a PhD student in the School of Arts whose research explores the impact of flooding on local communities through the medium of electroacoustic composition. There's a one-minute precis at the top, but you may want to check out Benoît's original interview, which explain a lot more about his background and the electroacoustic form. Benoit tells us about his recording techniques, what he does to the sounds afterwards, and how he hopes his participants and the stories of their communities will fit within that. He plays us two works in progress, one based on the Avon, (the one upon which Shakespeare's Stratford sits) and the Swilgate, one of its much smaller tributaries. Chapters 00:09 Introduction 01:04 A recap on Benoît's research 02:35 An update since our last interview 02:53 Recording underwater 05:29 Recording locations to tell a story 07:07 Adding voices to the compositions 10:56 A piece (in progress) about the Avon (better with headphones!🎧) 14:53 What are those underwater sounds? 15:48 A piece (in progress) about the Swilgate (better with headphones!🎧) 20:42 Aaliyah’s sonic Proustian moment 21:47 Finding and heightening tone and melody in field recordings 23:44 Looking forward to participatory composing 25:45 Goodbyes and credits The Roey Grad Podcast is a presentation of the University of Roehampton’s Graduate School. Our theme music is by DiamondTunes Our hosts are two PhD students at Roehampton, Charles Miller and Will Berard, who also edits and mixes the podcast. It was produced by Aaliyah Hassan. Comments, questions, want to appear on the show? Get in touch at [email protected]