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  HOW THE WINDS CARESSED ME (2023)
a soundscape composition for eight digital soundtracks






The wind is a restless and devious presence in our lives, revealing itself as an invisible, tactile experience, and aurally only in what it is interacting with. It can pretend to speak to us with a voice when it passes through a narrow opening, or it can even resemble a musician when it activates a string – the Aeolian effect – or resonates a tube with its breath. And its moods can range from being a relentless, stormy foe, to the most gentle of caresses. This piece propels us through its repertoire, eventually enveloping us in an ocean of transcendence. As the late poet, Norbert Ruebsaat, expressed it in The Blind Man:

the wind is invisible,
it does not want to know;
already it has come
and is leaving again

heave a sigh,
the wind
will not resolve this problem

How The Winds Caressed Me is available on

Original recordings from the WSP Recording Collection and the composer's cellphone recordings, including those of the Schonbeck collection of musical instruments at MassMOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) in North Adams, MA, particularly those involving metal strings or tubes. Sound processing realized with Soundhack Convolution and Mutation, with spatialization created by Harmonic Functions’ matrix mixer, marketed by Outboard Inc (UK). No granulation techniques were used in this piece.

A detailed documentation of the entire work, its sources, processing and multi-track mixing scheme is available on the WSP Database (truax@sfu.ca for guest access), as well as the 8-track soundfiles for performance.
 


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