A lecturer in hauntology made music out of leaves from Syd Barrett's garden

Locating strange connections that lurk in our unconscious is an obsession for Drew Mulholland, a lecturer in psychogeography and hauntology – areas of study that stray into the unconscious and the seemingly supernatural – at Glasgow University, or, as he puts it, he is
“interested in sound, memory and place”. He’s also a musician who likes to incorporate these ideas into his work, so when he visited Cambridge to see the childhood home of Syd Barrett, the enigmatic former member of Pink Floyd who died in 2006, Mulholland noticed a pile of leaves and detritus from the property’s garden sitting on the pavement. He scooped it up, glued his findings on to a seven-inch cardboard disc, played this on his record player and recorded the sound, chopping it all up digitally into a piece of music. The result, 'Mandy Rakes Up the Leaves Again' sounds largely like a Martian trying to get to grips with a transistor radio. Guardian...