a new thing: hangin’ in a tree

ok, so it’s not entirely a new thing. I was actually doing it last week! Saw a squirrel. True story. But the new thing is to climb a tree, in a secret location possibly in Greenwich park, every week and record a song. Or a few. Awesomely, our first session attracted an audience of 3 french toddlers and their captors. There was, at extreme points, boogying. This version of ‘Dirtiest Birthday Present’ by Esio trot was the best we got before the recording studio fell 30ft to the ground.

dirtiest birthday present in a tree
apologies for the file format, my phone disagrees with me on the bitrate/accessability debate

This audience member lost his balance soon after this photograph was taken and took down his sisters like a hardcore domino enthusiast. props. The theory is that as spring marches on, whilst perhaps getting very wet and disheartened, a subtle change in ambient noise will occur at the top of our chosen tree (whose indentity must remain a barely guarded secret) and, by overlaying the audio tracks and subtracting them to create a negative image, we will capture the very SOUND OF SUMMER. I cannot believe it has been done before.