Basti Aker

Sound artist and composer

(and sound designer, editor, recorder, and installation artist and piano tuner and bicycle mechanic and union organiser and builder and bikepacking bag maker and project manager and)

Soon they were cold and decided to go home (2013)

This work was created for a festival called Sound Devices in Ireland, to explore the relationship between literature and acousmatic sound art.

I chose a children’s book and edited a snowy walk through the forest with some aleatoric piano, to create the somehow positive melancholy of being wet and cold and going home after being in the snow all day.

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