Aerial, by Oliver Barrett

Aerial

by Oliver Barrett

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Aerial 21:38

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When we moved into our current flat, there was an old TV aerial wedged precariously between two sections of the roof. It had obviously been blown down years ago and it was now stuck there about 25 feet above the front door to the building. I'd see it every time I came home and worry about it falling off one day and coming down on somebody in the street below but we couldn't really do anything about it.

After we'd been in this place about three years we had to get a couple of roofing tiles replaced after they'd been damaged by a scaffolding company doing some work next door though, so we got the aerial taken down off the roof at the same time. Turns out it was pretty much entirely kept up there by this moss patch that had built up around it. This self-contained little ecosystem up on the roof.

For a week after it came down a bunch of seagulls divebombed the windows around our flat. I guess they'd been using the aerial as a perch or something. Seagulls hold a grudge. Anyhow, when life gives you weathered old tv aerials...

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released November 18, 2021

All sounds sourced from a weathered old tv aerial.
Performed, recorded and produced by Oliver Barrett
Cover photo by Laura Woodfield
Aerial retrieval by Steve (thanks Steve)

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