I’d like to share a few pieces of music that I feel either resonate with or otherwise influenced Angelystor.
Katharine Norman – Bells and Gargoyles (1996)

St. Michael and All Angels Church, Hathersage, Derbyshire, Panaramio, coljay72 (CC-A-NC-ND)
Bells and Gargoyles is an electroacoustic piece which processes a rather rough field recording made by Katharine Norman at St. Michael and All Angels Church, Hathersage (a location also used in the cult classic The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue). The piece begins and ends with unprocessed recordings, between which she uses various sonic transformations to suggest the blending of the imagination with the environment. You can listen to it in full at Katharine Norman’s website. In Angelystor, nearly all the non-instrumental and non-vocal sounds were also abstracted from the original field recording, although using a narrower palette of techniques. Continue reading