The other week when I was at work outside on the night outreach shift, we had a referral to visit Parkland Walk, an abandoned rail track turned into the green walk connecting Finsbury Park and Highgate. There was a bridge, and I immediately noticed very interesting reverberation underneath the bridge. I like the natural reverberation of various spaces, and this one, in particular, is very intriguing, primarily because of its size. It is a small space, but the reverb’s decay is between 3 and 4 seconds.

I decided to come on the upcoming night of the same week with a field recorder and a few of my favourite items, which I like to sample (metal wine calyx, metal pot for cooking and metal kitchen tray) and capture their sound within the space. Various items worked better than others in capturing the reverberation. For example, the calyx was not that prominent, like a pot hitting the ground. Capturing the actual reverberation of the space recording on my iPhone 11 sounds much better than from my Zoom H6 for some reason – at least from my point of preference.

As the night progressed towards the morning, birds started to sing and were captured in the background. I will need to come back another night earlier, around 2 A.M., to record the same sounds again, but without birds.

After all, I have used the field recording of the footsteps and the sound of me switching on the recording button on my iPhone in the intro of the track. I pitched down the sample to -12 cents. The sound of the iPhone nicely lingers one of the chime hits and resembles it as it would chime with a delay. They are two samples randomly sitting next to each other, so they work together well. From samples recorded on iPhone, I have used only one, which became the clap at the climax of the track.