Chris Watson

Weather Report (2003) ...

Chris Watson is a sound recordist, sound collagist and a founder member of Cabaret Voltaire.  He is best known as a BBC sound recordist for many TV and radio natural history productions ...

Ol-lool-o ...

"The weather has created and shaped all our habitats. Clearly it also has a profound and dynamic effect upon our lives and that of other animals. The three locations featured here all have moods and characters which are made tangible by the elements, and these periodic events are represented within by a form of time compression.

This is Chris's first foray into composition using his location recordings of wildlife and habitats - previously he has been concerned with describing and revealing the special atmosphere of a place by site specific, untreated location recordings. For the first time here he constructs collages of sounds, which evolve from a series of recordings made at the specific locations over varying periods of time."

kudosrecords.co.uk ...