I just came back from New York with lost of ambient recordings and I’m looking for a format in which to use them within a composition. I just cam across a piece which is a lake recording with piano over the top.

I was thinking that I might then use the ‘piano waves’ setup I made in Reason when I was in Czech, which really has an emotive flow to it and makes it easy to accentuate moments. Piano is easy and sounds pretty, particular against nature sounds.

Mostly of my recordings are from Urban landscapes however or of jet planes. Thomas Brinkmann and Scanner did a track called Adria in which they had a recording from inside a fighter jet on an attack run. The track, minimal tech, builds up ominously (sadly no strike on the sample so no climate).

Finally there is the obvious approach which would be to slice up the samples and integrate shorted sections. The Boards of Canada did some nice stuff in this direction on there Geogaddi album, in which they sample old documentary and play some of the samples backward