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Tag Archives: electro-acoustic
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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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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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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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
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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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
Posted in Autumn, River, sound walk, spring, Summer, Water, Winter
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, electro-acoustic, field-recording, phonography, River Itchen, sound art, soundscape
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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
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
Posted in Autumn, field-recording, Gruenrekorder, River, sound art, sound walk, soundscape, Uncategorized, Water
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, electro-acoustic, field-recording, Gruenrekorder, Musique Concrete, phonography, sound art, soundfield, soundscape, spatial acoustics, subaquatic sounds
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Every last drop of summer: sound marks and surface tension
The last sunset of summer 2010 took place on Wednesday the 22nd September and I set out to record its farewell. The poetics of this moment brings with it a cinematic anticipation of a silent sun seen falling slowly beyond … Continue reading
Posted in field-recording, River, soundscape, Summer, Water
Tagged acoustic ecology, Chalk streams, electro-acoustic, field-recording, Hydrophone, phonography, rain, Rhythm, River Itchen, sound art, soundscape, subaquatic sounds
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The rhythm in rain, doors and hammers
On what the BBC had forecast to be a day of showers and sunny intervals, I met up with Rachel and a work party at Barton Farm barn in the north of the moors. The work party were charged with … Continue reading
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Tagged electro-acoustic, field-recording, phonography, rain, Rhythm, sound art
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winnall moors : soundwalk 