New CD of the OLD Iron Age Music

[Cheyenne]

Reconstructing the instruments is one thing, I undertook a lot of reconstruction work myself for some of the analysis of sound devices inside Neolithic chambered tombs of Wales and Scotland. Scales are contentious, as are intervals within any given musical form if we try and impose that musical form on to an era where no structured notation exists.

We worked with a number of dischords inside tombs to consider how the modern day requirements of acoustic engineering to eliminate phenomena such as flutter echoes and standing waves would be reversed to achieve an altered state within a confined space. If you want to hear more music from prehistoric constructions, look up the Kilmartin Project with Simon O'Dwyers reconstructions of the bronze horns.

I am currently working in the studio on a new album of prehistoric sounding devices which I'll post some links to when it is finished and mastered. I will be experimenting with sound frequencies and combinations of soundscapes which are designed to immerse rather than simply being 'auditory cheesecake'

My chapter on the psycho-acoustic effects of sounding devices in particular spaces related to ritual immersion can be read in the following book:

http://www.oxbowbooks.com/bookinfo.cfm/ID/88223