Thirst - the latest in the Ambient Year series of broadcasts on Source FM

 Wednesday, April 28th and May 5th at 22:00 UTC(GMT) on Source FM, 96.1 or on The Source FM digital broadcast

It is also be available as a full quality digital download on bandcamp soon (where this Friday they are waving their commission fee, so all your purchase goes toward the artists.)

listen and see what you think at macdunlop.bandcamp.com

This episode is called 'Thirst'.
It's called thirst because its about desire, a desire for a sound that isn't special or stand outish.
A desire for a sound that is as much music as it is noise. a sound that feels like it is around us all the time, a sound that compliments everything else, a sound that disguises itself, a sound that's hides camouflaged inside everything else. I've often wondered why we have hierarchies of descriptions for sound like music and noise -
perhaps its similar to the idea that inuit peoples have over 30 words for snow.

I was chatting with a friend who used to have a show on The Source  called Self Help- Help Yourself - he even had a robot, anyway he was telling me about a show Patrick Simons used to do called Beach Nourishment, and another friend, the saxophonist David Payne.
David was listening to beach radio one day, while eating breakfast and as a certain sound came on the radio, David's fork stopped half way between plate and mouth, and there it stayed, as David waited for the sound to change, to modulate in some way. But it didn't, so there his fork stayed. The next time he met Patrick he told him -jokingly - that his day had been ruined by that one sound that Patrick had played, just because it wouldn't change.
So sound affects us in lots of ways, some feel affected physically have the sensation of seeing different colours, or taste. that's called "Synaesthesia'.

Anyway, we have these arbitrary categories for sound, noise, music along with many many others, and why we have them we don't really know, or at least can never quite agree on.

So my idea, the idea of 'Thirst' and this Ambient year series, is to take you on a journey, to create a narrative without words, to make, an evocative sound space.
Something that is both contemplative and active at the same time.

this is my desire
this is my thirst