A NORTH Berwick-born music producer and sound designer has had seven albums he produced during lockdown, including one featuring the sounds of his home town, released on Apple Music.

Ted White, who was brought up on Cromwell Road, where parents Sally and Andrew still live, was approached by music distribution service Platoon to co-ordinate field recordings he had gathered around the world over several years and release them via Apple last month.

Each of the seven albums is dedicated to a different continent, and the sounds of North Berwick’s beaches and harbour feature on the Europe: Earth Sounds album.

Ted, 25, said: “I travel a lot, recording sounds around the world, and Platoon and I collectively came up with the concept of collating my recordings of the past seven years into continents of the world.

“I did a bit more travelling to record the bits I didn’t have.”

A former student at Loretto now splitting his time between Liverpool and London, Ted came back to North Berwick to capture the seaside town’s night-time atmosphere.

He said: “I grew up there so I knew where I could get good sounds without the noise pollution that you get in London.

“I recorded lots of midnight sounds on the beaches. It’s very, very quiet where the golf course practice range is, so I went down there.

“And also the harbour, for lots of the clinking and clanking of sails; and at the jetty down by the harbour when the tide was at its highest. I put a load of microphones and left them there as well.”

With more than 100 hours’ worth of sounds, Ted used recordings he had made in diverse places, including the Amazon rainforest, Rajasthan in India, and Norway.

For those places he was unable to get to, such as Antarctica, Ted recreated the noises he imagined would be heard using his own instruments and accessories. For Antarctica, he recorded harsh winds and tents flapping, ice chunks moving around a bath, and also penguins at the zoo.

But he was moved to return to North Berwick last year for the Europe album.

He said: “It’s my interpretation of what I think the world sounds like; some people will agree, some people won’t.

“It’s my musical sound diary, so to speak; and for the Europe album there were places that I felt connected to, so I recorded a lot in the Highlands, around Aberfeldy, in the winter, to get those blustery sounds, and a lot around North Berwick because that’s where I grew up and, to be honest, when you’re trying to capture sounds it’s so difficult to find places which have not a lot of noise pollution, and North Berwick in the night for some reason is not that loud.”

The Mindfulness Nature albums can be found online at sites including Apple Music and Spotify.