“2420 ft” is a new work created from a recording made at the WWT London Wetland Centre during a group listening session organised by Adam Stanović and part of his wider collaboration focusing on Wetlands habitats in UK and Chile, resulting in bilateral residencies and two concerts.
Taking its title from the average altitude of the aircraft on their final approach to Heathrow that were logged by a noise monitor in the middle of the wetlands nature reserve, “2420 ft” comes straight off the SD card, its only edits the fades that top and tail the recording. If the aircraft engines measured by the Bruel & Kjaer 3639-A Type 1 sound level meter might represent sounds that travelled furthest to my microphones, in descending order of elevation there are also buffets of wind (that I probably should have EQ’d away), a skein of Canada geese, a flock of parakeets, tree-perched robins, coal tits and great spotted woodpeckers, mouths that scream, laugh, hush, whisper, exhale and stifle giggles, the jangle of charms on backpacks and keys in pockets, the swish of school uniforms, stones crushed by shoe soles and coots calling from the drainage ditches below the path.
