Simon marchant

I am a sound worker. I record, edit, mix and master audio but also devise music to work with other creative media.

As a core member of the post-punk band, Normil Hawaiians, I have an interest in exploring alternative approaches to sound/music creation. I believe that composition is simply a process of discovery and that the most interesting music comes either from searching deeper and further or from foraging with an unorthodox technique.

I like to use found sounds as compositional sources in a variety of ways, especially when these are linked to specific spaces. For example, Hebridean ripples lapping the shoreline of Tayinloan on the West coast of Scotland morph into a darkly submarine and slow moving harmonic eddy in the track Waves NR728524 (to be found on the 2024 NH album, Empires into Sand). In this piece the only sound source is the recording of the waves. These are gradually and progressively filtered using bandpass filters to sculpt form from a block of natural sound.