Category Archives: Winter

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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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

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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

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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

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Sound Walking: a short walk through a year

We are now in the second stage of the project, the compositional stage: although, I am still occasionally enticed into the moors to have a surreptitious earful. On one such recent aural rummage, I found some gaseous ticking in the … Continue reading

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