Listening back now, it transports me back to the field, recording for 2 hours straight at dusk as the wires were cooling down from the heat of the sun, trying to keep Alan quiet (!!) as he enthused wildly about his theories of aeolian music. Vale Alan. A remarkable Australian composer.

It was then released in stereo in 2000 on the Social Interiors CD ‘Spatial Circumference’. It got lots of outings in the 1990s and really moved some air with the subsonics. It needs a full range, high res sound system to really work, or headphones with good bass response.

Wiring up contact mics and putting on headphones to listen to the sound on the wires was one of the most exciting musical moments of my career. I subsequently made a work from that day, ‘Silent Latitudes [for Alan Lamb]’ in 1993 which wasn’t premiered until a 1997 watt concert, in 5.1 surround.

I first met Alan when I did a residency at PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1993 and he took Rik Rue and I out recording his wires, which were then on a property in Baldivis, WA.

Does it have the extra bass strings?