Tag Archives: Musique Concrete

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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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 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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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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