Tower Bridge: South Bascule by Ian Rawes.
Ed recommended this piece in the assessment feedback. I agree this is a really intruiging field recording, there is an electrical drone in the first couple of minutes giving a harmonious quality gradually overpowered by the surrounding low end atmosphere and rainfall. The horns sounding out also contain a semblence of harmony, the harmonious drone comes back after these disruptions until the end of the piece. The structure of the piece has a meditative quality as there is a distraction event in the middle and our mind is taken elsewhere, only for a resolve and return to center.
I have recently discovered themuseumofsound.com which has some really brilliant high quality field recordings, of which one contributor Jez Riley French sells high quality contact microphones I had seen recommended through zachpoff.com.
I attempted a field recording with my Tascam, but unfortunately I could only get around 4 minutes of clear recording due to extreme wind… I was hoping to submit it to the recent call for field recordings from NTS Radio, but feel the quality is not quite good enough. I was walking through the Marina in Brighton and the casts of the boats where creating these percussive shuffles and vibrato whistles as the strong winds breached through the Marina walls. I faced away from the winds direction and tried to use my body to block the force and experimented a little bit with capture.