The final piece that I’d like to record on the vessels themselves is the piece for the Sick Bay, which I’m calling Waves (MOD have this fabulous visual idea of projecting moving light like waves around the sick bay … sea sickness …). I wanted to create an abstracted “sea sound” (i.e. not an obvious cheesey sea sample complete with seagull cries) to underpin this, and it was a remarkably easy thing to do in Ableton Live following on from the sound design course at Liveschool.

Over this will be more experimentation with dissonant extended techniques on the bass clarinet and bass flute, plus another wheel-bells part – but this time 6 wheels for one player. And, of course, the waterphone again, meaning that this sound opened and closed the tour through Vampire. Altogether, it should be quite eerie and sick-making…