B08 - Sirens from Black Swan by Jim Mortimore

Written in 2006 as an accompaniment to Bethan Jennings’ Dock Crane Performance, which debuted at the Bristol Regatta… under a huge full moon. Harriet Staig-Graham is one of the featured vocalists. The other is shamelessly sampled from somewhere or other. Everything else is composed by yours truly. So many people turned up at Bristol Docks I couldn’t see the performance, which included Bethan hanging her husband Jim dressed in a 40ft long dress and beehive hairdo together with several other performers dressed as fish from one of the dock cranes out across the harbour. All I could hear was this music wafting across the industrial lanscape under that Scooby-Doo moon…

I've been writing music since I was very young, having abandoned piano lessons for a Casio VL Tone and two reel2reel tape recorders. I'm inspired by early Tangerine Dream and bleepy radiophonica, such as may be found enhancing 1960s Dr Who. I've written music for BBC Dr Who audio plays and live local performances. Delia Derbyshire, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Jerry Goldsmith are among my muses.

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