industrial estates
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Open your eyes and see
I’m interested in photographing the everyday world around us. In my photos I try to depict the world we live in, not the pretty scenes we have to hunt out, but the world we have made in all its flaws. I don’t want to romanticise the world I want to show it as it is. Interested in the world we choose to make, we have a ltd range of money – what do we choose to maintain; what do we build and how does it look? How do these constructions blend into the environment; what other choices could we make, but have gone for this look.
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sounds of the Ridgeway
added new sound recording from the top of the Ridgeway to aporee maps:
http://aporee.org/maps/?loc=6977
grass blowing in the breeze, birds chirping, distant sound of a train.
top of the Ridgeway (grass blowing in breeze) [4:49m]: World Listening Day
I am planing an event in Weymouth for the first World Listening Day, which happens on Sunday, July 18, 2010.
The purposes of World Listening Day are:
- to celebrate the practice of listening as it relates to the world around us, environmental awareness, and acoustic ecology
- to raise awareness about issues related to the World Soundscape Project, World Listening Project, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, and individual and group efforts to creatively explore phonography
- to design and implement educational initiatives which explore these concepts and practices
July 18 was chosen as the date for World Listening Day because it is the birthday of the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer. Schafer is one of the founders of the Acoustic Ecology movement. The World Soundscape Project, which he directed, is an important organization which has inspired a lot of activity in this field, and his book Soundscape: The Tuning of the World helped to define many of the terms and background behind the acoustic ecology movement.
