Chat 4: Found Sound Composing

JJ Riordan is a composer from Kenmare, Co Kerry. He makes music with everyday items as well as different instruments. He contributed a short found sounds piece to the Tones Textbook and showed how he processed the sounds and compiled the piece in Soundtrap.
(Tracks 147-152)

Links:

Part 1 of the Interview

Part 2 of the Interview

Part 3 of the Interview

Further Development

 Write down one thing you learn about found sound composing from each of the three parts of the interview.  

The audio clip below is an extract from the full interview we had with him in a noisy area in The Irish World Academy of Music and Dance in Limerick (See Parts 1-3). This extract begins with his Haircut piece.