Using entirely cut sections of the original recording to create all of the musical elements, the sounds were recomposed and mingled with my own field recordings, captured over the autumn months, to evoke the changeable elements of hairst, meaning harvest or autumn in Scottish dialect.

hairst emanates from the heralding of the harvest and the last hurrahs of summer. Blossoming splendours in russet and gold. The slow undressing of trees in chill northerly breezes. Skeins of geese daubing darkening, evening skies like Matisse sketches. The wheezy flight of swans at dawn over swollen, misty waters and the final bowls match of the closing season before the setting of winter.

Filmed in the Scottish Borders. Sounds and reimagined recordings from the Autumn Project to be archived as part of the British Library's digital archive.