Music / Compositions

Three Rooms for Cora

2024 · electroacoustic ·

Percy Grainger's House

Recording

Notes

A suite of three contrasting pieces using only domestic sounds recorded in Percy Grainger's house in White Plains, as part of the Grainger Library of Sampled Sound (GLOSS) project. In each piece you hear the raw samples first, then some processing is applied.

  1. Percy's Room (0' 38"). Includes: music cabinet drawers; wardrobe doors and handles; various lights and candlesticks.
  2. Elsie's Room (2' 08"). Includes: bookcase cabinets; dressing table drawers; plant stand; room lights.
  3. Ella's Room (4' 53"). Built around the repeating sound of a toy dancing bear, decorated with the lights on the east wall.