Category Archives: soundscape

flooded: a landscape paused

Walking through the flood waters The recent release of four walks around a year: winter, draws to a quiet close the seasonal quartet of soundwalks around winnall moors, which were slow released by Gruenrekorder through 2013/14. A review of the … Continue reading

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Winter: that which was then solid now melts

Winter with dawn and Sporty Four walks around a year: winter Gruenrekorder | GrDl 141 The final winter perambulation through a year in winnall moors is released by Gruenrekorder on January 15th 2014. I find something intrinsically melancholic in the … Continue reading

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A remembered journey through a forgotten landscape

Autumn Equinox with swans and rainfall Four walks around a year: autumn Gruenrekorder | GrDl 140/13 The penultimate seasonal release from the series,  four walks around a year, is released  on the 15th October, by the German field-recording and sound art … Continue reading

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a summer palimpsest

Four walks around a year: summer Gruenrekorder | GrDl 130/13 The slow release of the four winnall moors soundwalks reaches summer. The full 25-minute perambulation is available as a digital download (MP3/FLAC) from the German field-recording and sound art label … Continue reading

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four walks around a year: spring

four walks around a year: spring Gruenrekorder | GrDl 128/13 Stepping into dawn The four winnall moors soundwalks will be slow released during 2013 on the German field-recording and sound art label Gruenrekorder Digital. Such a durational release of the soundwalks … Continue reading

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Remembering movement: time and place thickened

Autumn walk: sharp oblongs of reverberation As summer begins to amble through spring, the remaining sonic perambulations of autumn and winter within the moors are completed. The recordings from which autumn is composed are now over a year old: the … Continue reading

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A field of summer: ghosts of sounds now no longer here

sound walk through summer (edit): sounds now no longer here sound walk through summer (edit): the teeth of a grass cutter hover over summer’s path The sound walk through summer in the moors is now complete. Opening with dawn of … Continue reading

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Walking spring over summer and winter beneath winter

Spring soundwalk: enterance into dawn Spring soundwalk: finale and pagoda adagio The first sound walk is now complete and will take the listener upon a twenty-five minute circumnavigation through spring in Winnall Moors. Re-composed from recordings made through two springs … Continue reading

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First frost motet: ghosts and the sound of empty landscapes

Up early to find the dawn and the moors covered in the first frost of autumn, a mist held over the river, slowly lifted with sunrise. The soundscape was strangely sparse and silent, all sound seemed distant and vaporous, small … Continue reading

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Interruptions in the soundscape: sound squared

In early October there was a sudden interruption to the landscape and soundscape in the moors. The collapse of a ‘hatch’ diverting water from the river Itchen into the water meadow meant that emergency repair work had to be undertaken. … Continue reading

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