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Category Archives: Water
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
Posted in field-recording, four walks around a year, Gruenrekorder, River, sound art, sound walk, soundscape, Water, Winter
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, electro-acoustic, experimental music, field-recording, Gruenrekorder, Hydrophone, Musique Concrete, perception, phonography, rain, River Itchen, seasons, sound art, soundfield, soundscape, spatial acoustics, time
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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
Posted in Autumn, field-recording, Gruenrekorder, River, sound art, sound walk, soundscape, Water
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, electro-acoustic, experimental music, Field survey, field-recording, Gruenrekorder, Hydrophone, perception, phonography, rain, Rhythm, River Itchen, seasons, sound art, soundfield, soundscape, spatial acoustics, subaquatic sounds, time
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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
Posted in field-recording, Gruenrekorder, River, sound walk, soundscape, Summer, Uncategorized, Water
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, experimental music, field-recording, Gruenrekorder, Hydrophone, perception, phonography, rain, River Itchen, sound art, soundfield, soundscape, spatial acoustics, subaquatic sounds, time
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World Listening Day: “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.”
a walk through winter: 25:00 “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” (Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room) Wednesday the 18th July 2012 will be the third World Listening Day. Organised by The World Listening Project, the day takes place on … Continue reading
Posted in field-recording, River, sound walk, Water, Winter, World Listening Day
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, electro-acoustic, experimental music, field-recording, Hydrophone, john cage, Musique Concrete, perception, phonography, rain, Rhythm, River Itchen, silence, sound art, soundfield, soundscape, spatial acoustics, time
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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
Walk out to winter: a puddle and a plastic bottle
Christmas Day 2011: A plastic bottle in a river Christmas Day 2010: the cackle of reeds with occasional crow Christmas Day 2011: a Christmas puddle Up at 4:30 to walk into winter and Christmas Day on winnall moors. Last year, I … Continue reading
Posted in River, sound walk, Water, Winter
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, field-recording, perception, phonography, River Itchen, sound art, soundscape
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a river runs through here: the pluck of air and fret of hydrophones
As part of the Winchester Arts Festival, 10 Days Across the City, I composed a cycle of three soundscapes for the auditorium of the Theatre Royal, Winchester. The cycle included a twenty-minute sound walk through a year of Winnall Moors … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, Installation, River, spring, Summer, Water, Winter
Tagged acoustmatic, Daphne Oram, delia derbyshire, electro-acoustic, experimental music, field-recording, Hydrophone, Musique Concrete, perception, phonography, Pierre Shaeffer, River Itchen, sound art, soundscape, spatial acoustics, subaquatic sounds
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River Sculpture: the gait of tractors and texture of shovels
In autumn, up in the north of the moors, I met Martin De Retuerto (Winnall Moors Project Manager) for a bit of ecological river sculpture. Over the past 400 years the chalk streams that flow through the moors have been … Continue reading
Posted in Autumn, River, Water
Tagged Chalk streams, field-recording, phonography, River Itchen, sound art
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Three from underneath: rough tongues and a pond shanty
In April of last year the dipping pond turned black with the seasonal arrival of tadpoles. The water was transformed into a dark vibrating jelly: a primordial tadpole soup. I had sunk my hydrophone into this broth of possible toads … Continue reading
Posted in spring, Water
Tagged field-recording, Hydrophone, phonography, sound art, subaquatic sounds
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winnall moors : soundwalk 