Ever wondered what it's like to hear your music projected out of a clocktower? Me neither, but it was fun to find out! Throwback to writing for Old Joe as part of the UoB 125th anniversary celebrations last summer. It was a real pleasure to be involved with BEAST again, writing music for the campus where I learnt to be a composer.

All the sounds in the piece were created by processing sounds from the clocktower (a mix of contact mics and stereo recordings). Rather than do something traditionally electroacoustic, as it's a party, I wanted to do something more upbeat and fun. And as Elgar was the first professor of music at the university, creating a dance version of Nimrod seemed like the obvious melodic choice.

Below is the piece as written in the DAW- mechanics of the clock meant the actual timings were very different!