Long-form Ambient
Robert Scott Thompson
2016
Slieve Mish, also known as Slemish, holds a special significance to many, and also to me. This long-form ambient work honors Slieve Mish and the beauty and mystery of the place so close to where I grew up – beckoning in the distance across the fields.
The notion of the music is one continuous and delimited soundscape – like the resonance of a location, environment or sonic ecology. The work is intended for fairly low playback and continuous play.
While the texture may seem rather static – from the surface of some of the materials of the work – it is actually constantly renewing.
– rst
Slemish, historically called Slieve Mish, is a small mountain in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies a few miles east of Ballymena, in the townland of Carnstroan. Tradition holds that Saint Patrick, enslaved as a youth, was brought to this area and tended sheep herds on Slemish, and that during this time he found God.
