My inspiration with this piece was a field recording of birdsong in Beckenham Place Park, which runs throughout the track (you can also hear a plane flying overhead). The field recording and my treatment of it was taken directly from track 4 of my EP, 'Archaic Remnants', which is out 1st May. I thought it was apt to borrow this from the EP considering this month's submissions will go out on the EP's release day. I was recently in Northumberland, where I visited the Farne Islands. There, the Atlantic Puffins had arrived, and I captured some recordings of their loud calls. I processed these recordings with granular synthesis and resampling to make textured pads and the more melodic elements of the piece. The result is a piece of music made entirely from the sounds of things that fly.

A simple ambient piece, centred around two texturally different field recordings. Both are recordings of me walking - one in mud, the other on a stony beach.

'Home is where the heart is' - I took a field recording from our windowsill in South East London and used the audio transients to trigger a synth and put a drone underneath. I also used a drum synthesizer to create a heartbeat throughout for good measure.

This month's theme immediately made me think of video games, and the nostalgia associated with games I used to play. Fortunately, I have a little pocket operator 'arcade' synth, which has built in sounds that are reminiscent of vintage video games. I made the whole piece on this fun little synth sent to a reverb.

I based this piece around field recordings I've taken in London - on buses, trains, in public and at football matches. The feeling that even if we're alone, we're all in this life together.

I used an ambient piece I've been working on as a base, and layered it with a field recording I took in the Lake District of birdsong. I've always felt that nature is good for the soul. I then retuned the whole piece to 432Hz (where A is at 432Hz instead of 440Hz), as this alternative tuning is supposed to be more spiritually calming than the Western standard.

This was a tricky theme, it didn't immediately jump out at me how I could incorporate 'letters' into music. I then thought about voice notes, and how these are, in a way, a form of letter. This is a simple ambient track, centred around voice messages I've received. I processed and distorted the recordings to try and make them feel distant, nostalgic.

I was heavily inspired by Steve Reich's 'phase' pieces, where a player or players play two identical lines on two instruments slightly out of phase. This creates interesting rhythmic patterns as the two lines 'phase' in and out with each other. I attempted to recreate this effect, by 'duplicating' the same synth line at slightly different tempos. I then added a synth bassline to try and round out the piece and make sense of the rhythmic chaos.

I took my field mic and moved it around in my hands, recording those interactions. I then added some synth lines, both holding the same notes throughout. The synth lines are sidechained the mic feed so they duck out during microphone transients, hopefully reminiscent to old gramophones, and the feeling of holding on to the past.

I used a field recording of birdsong I captured in the lake district a few months ago, and created a patch on my drum machine that reminds me of windchimes in the morning. This formed the basis for a piece of music that I would awaken to. I also captured myself recording the piece on video. If you'd like to see it, let me know.