Sheepscape

"Sheepscape started with Maria Margaronis’ ambisonic recording inside a sheep barn in Ano Pedina, Zagori, Epirus, Northern Greece. I dearly love this region of Greece and have been stopped in traffic jams of sheep and goats in this region which is humorous as long as you are not in a hurry. "In order to create the composition, I first listened to the pitches of the bells and sheep ‘baas’ and tried to pick the same or similar pitches to improvise on as if I was playing the piano like sheep bells and baas. I wanted the piano part to reflect the flow of the original track which starts, as Maria Margaronis reflects, with impatient sheep waiting to be let out of their shed after they have been milked. Two thirds into the event, the actual recording device had to be rescued from the stampeding sheep, hence the feedback noise. Nearing the end they race out with their bells clanking. "To fit with the track that Maria Margaronis calls “Sheep’s ear view” I improvised on the piano and recorded eight different extracts with slightly different states of de-tuning and re-tuning of the same piano which I put together with effects to, as subtly as possible, blend with the natural sounds of the sheep and their environment." Sheep in Ano Pedina reimagined by Coreen Morsink.