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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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Walking on air: summer broadcast

The completed summer soundwalk, one of the four walks around a year in winnall moors, will be broadcast by Radeq Radio, in residence at the SoundFjord Gallery, London. The full twenty-five minute summer circuit of the moors is scheduled for … 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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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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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

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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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