As discussed in the last few blogs, the instrumentation for Crossing the Line is to have three members of the ensemble hitting engineering wheels in the steam room of HMAS Vampire, or somewhere similar, and to have Claire playing waterphone too.

Funnily enough, there aren’t many commercial sample sets of “destroyer and submarine engineering wheels”, so I’ve been through East West’s “Stormdrum 2” collection of samples and have tried to find similar sounds, as well as some waterphone samples, in the above mock-up. This should help us get an idea of what it will sound like once installed into the space.