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Fleet Lagoon

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

I’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.

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Over 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.”

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Sonic bus tour of Poole’s working landscape

Thursday, September 1st, 2011

This was the FINAL Our Working Lives event! A unique, one-off, bus tour of Poole’s working landscape was organised. Where passengers got the chance to travel through time on a 1959 Routemaster bus for a mystery tour to hear a soundtrack of Poole’s working landscape.

The tour took visitors to areas in Poole not usually visited by commercial tour packages. Snaking through Poole’s industrial estates, as well as other interesting features of Poole’s economic landscape. During the tour passengers could hear everyday people talk about their working life, about Poole history and how its infrastructure has developed. Mixed with life today and its possible economic future.