Archive for December, 2011
Scrumpin album released
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011These recordings were done on 15th October 2011 in a back garden in Lodmoor, Weymouth, while I was picking apples. Really it was not scrumping as I had the owners permission to be there, though they were not there at the time. Technically to qualify as true scrumping it has to involve climbing an orchard wall and taking apples without the owners consent.
Fleet Lagoon
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011I’ve taken a break from my creative conversations this week to put together this soundscape made up of field recordings around Fleet.
This work is part of an ongoing audio exploration to capture my local environment and ties in with the conversations I have been capturing. http://51degreesnorth.bandcamp.com/album/fleet-lagoon
This month I again had great difficulty in capturing the extremely peacefulness of this special place. Capturing the quietness is proving to be quite a challenge in these soundscapes.
Creative Archive
Thursday, December 1st, 2011Over the last three years I have been working with Poole museum archives and with archives at Devon Records Office. Through this working with archival material has become a bit of an obsession within my artistic practice. It is a passion, a commitment. As my friend Luís Antero, said; “tradition is like a huge file and a stimulating point of departure for exploration and work. One can use it to build entirely new things.”
