Publications

"The first rule: the tracks were to be created entirely from audio recorded on location. No synthesized samples, no library music. The recordings were processed, of course. Sometimes we did this quite simply, by slowing down or looping samples (Time and Scale); at other times more ambitiously—for example, abstracting the underlying harmonics from the sounds of the dining hall (Tsunami). But always returning to the source material, always seeking to reflect the character, spirit, and idiosyncrasy inherent to it.

The second rule: to privilege the sense of story and the sense of place. In the process of composition, it is easy to run away with the joy of sound, to get lost in music, and forget the purpose behind it. But, this was a project about stories and voices and we only wanted to allow these fragments to unfold, to collide, and to reveal themselves—evoking, we hoped, something of the subtle magic and quiet humanity in the stories, the places, and the people of ADB."
— David Gunn, Incidental