Peter Batchelor: composer, sound designer

Steamin'

for stereo tape | March 2000, 3'00

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NOTES | EXTRACT | REVIEWS

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Steamin’ is remarkably vivid in its atmospheric portrait of the clank of couplings, grind of wheel on rail and momentum of pistons, Batchelor effectively capturing a sense of fun at the same time.
- Extract from CD review of Live from State of the Nation 2001 by Christopher Thomas

...[an] engaging simulation of steam locomotion...
- Extract from CD review of Live from State of the Nation 2001 by Richard Whitehouse, Gramophone magazine, Sept 2002

...a "Night Mail" for the 21st-century -- it quite literally generates a good head of steam.
- Extract from CD review of Live from State of the Nation 2001 from Classical Source, August 2002

 

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