This soundscape explores the layers of emotion experienced through inhabiting Dublin solely through memory while simultaneously navigating a new and unfamiliar physical environment, in this case - Barcelona, where I currently live.

I wanted the duality of my relationship to the two cities to unfold during the piece through varying gradients of clarity. The foundational layer situates the present environment: the hum of Barcelona captured in field recordings during walks through the neighbourhood I live in, with passing voices in Catalan and Spanish, children playing, and elderly neighbours in animated conversation. This immersive layer is occasionally disrupted, dipping beneath the music as attention drifts inward. Fragmented memories of home surface, momentarily pulling the experience out of the physical environment and into a reconstructed space shaped by hazy recollections of conversations, rooms, and moments from home. Distorted yet familiar voices emerge, accents of family and friends recognisable in tone, but the words dissolve into abstraction amongst the shifting soundscape.

Beneath these shifting layers there is a musical backdrop of intimate piano progressions which soundtrack the emotional resonance of the experience. A meandering vocal sample sits alongside the piano, synthesised and manipulated to sound and feel just out of reach of recognition. Both elements are submerged in deep spatial reverb, framing the sense of distance and longing. The title of the piece ‘Enyor’ comes from Catalan and doesn’t have an exact translation to English but I’m told describes a feeling somewhere between nostalgia and yearning, defined as - “A feeling produced by the absence or loss of a person or thing one loves, together with the desire to see or have it again.”