A piano was recorded.

Strings were summoned.

An electric cello hummed through the wires.

Somewhere, electricity turned into feeling.

Topanga is not about category, or structure, or form.

It is about what happens when the online signal fades and something else begins.

No manifesto. No genre. No story.

Just sound.

And the quiet between it.

“8mm was born from a collective effort. I’ve been interested in 8mm and Super 8 films for a long time. There’s something about these grainy, home-made projections that lures me in. I thought I’d like to make a soundtrack to some of these home movies.

I asked friends on social media if they had any old Super 8 home movie reels they didn’t want, so I could write this score to them.

After a couple of weeks, I had acquired an 8mm film projector, two 8mm cameras, and boxes and boxes of 8mm film reel, such was the interest in the project and the generosity of my friends.

The films tell tales of family holidays, birthdays, road trips, days out and special occasions, spanning from the mid 1960’s to the present day. Their scratchy images and DIY nature suggested a sonic palette full of disintegration, lo-fidelity, dropouts, wobble and surface noise, like an old, sunbaked cassette played through a cheap speaker. As these are mainly home movies, from another time and space, they evoke memory, feelings of longing for times past, and reflection. This has seeped into the music, creating a sound and melody unlike anything I’ve previously recorded.”