To celebrate the memory of sound artists Ann Kroeber and Alan Splet, sound library Pro Sound Effects and Translation Loss Records have released an album of soundscapes created from Kroeber and Splet’s Sound Mountain Collection.

Kroeber and Splet were frequent collaborators with David Lynch on films such as Eraserhead, Dune and Lost Highway. When Splet died in 1994, Kroeber created Sound Mountain to preserve and carry on the extensive library of sound effects the two had built together over a 15 year personal and professional partnership.

For this album, PSE sound designers Daniel Louis D’Errico, Sebastian Henshaw, Huascar Alberto Holguin, Eric Mooney and Facundo Moreno revisited Sound Mountain to create a soundtrack honouring Kroeber and Splet’s creativity.

Wire subscribers can read Paul Schütze’s obituary of Alan Splet from February 1995 in issue 132 in the digital archive. A review of I Thought I Heard A Stranger will appear in The Wire 503/504