Once during the afternoon walk, I discovered a set of large metal chimes situated at the playground of an estate between Arsenal Stadium and Finsbury Park. I decided to come back again to record them at different times of the day. I did so on 25th April at about 1 am when I expected the site to be quiet and ideally with no people around.

For recording, I used several types of microphones. I compared them during the recording and later decided which sound best suited my liking. The idea was to capture the sound and tones of resonating pipes as clean as possible. I have used 1x condenser microphone Oktava MK-012-01, Zoom H6 and 2x Korg contact microphones. Firstly I recorded each pipe separately to capture single tones with each microphone. Using the condenser microphone outdoors did not turn up to be the best idea due to its high sensitivity. Even with a foam filter, the wind destroyed any sense of clarity with an overwhelming hum. The result from the Zoom H6 stereo microphone was slightly better however surrounding city still had a severe amount of background noise even at night (there was always someone parking the car in the street around the corner or a dog barking). Clip-on contact mics from Korg attached to the frame of chips (not to actual pipes. I tried that too, and it completely dumped the resonance of the pipe into a dull sound with, to me, not likeable character).

After recording every chime separately, I attached contact mics to the frame on the left and right sides to create a stereo image and played a few different melodies. Two melodies captured that night became the core element of the track.