The bright green birch leaves looked beautiful as they shimmered in the wind on this sunny day. The sound is quiet but easy to hear. The movement also creates a vibration in the wood of the tree. This track uses a combination of normal and contact mics to crossfade from the outside atmosphere, where a distant guitarist entertains in front of the Tate Gallery, to the internal fluttering as picked up by a contact mic on the tree itself. When the wind drops the vibration in the wood disappears too.
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