Holding Patterns

The making of this album began at a small festival on Inishturk, an Island off the coast of County Mayo in Ireland. I had brought a recording device along with me and took a circumnavigation of the island, along the way recording every gate I encountered; just the sound of them opening and closing again. I was searching for the short, and often eerie songs that gates sometimes sing as they swing open or shut. On returning to the mainland I catalogued the material and turned to exploring ways with which to approach working with it. About a year or so later I had settled on a process and once again began listening back to the original field recordings.