Kinterbury Creek Community Soundscape Project

In January I started work with a community arts project on the Barne Barton housing estate in Plymouth. The project, called BBRoots, is about looking at what is unique about the area, capturing it, celebrating it and using it to raise aspirations for the estate. My part of the project involves giving people the opportunity to listen to, record, and talk about Kinterbury Creek - a green space within the community that leads down to the Tamar Estuary. So far we have held a couple of informal Saturday morning sessions and a drop in event at the local community centre.

Some of the sounds collected so far can be heard here:

Arts Wave Devon sound art drop in day

Arts Wave Devon is an arts project supporting people to discover and engage with their own creativity and improve their wellbeing. The project works with communities to design a varied programme of opportunities, with a particular focus towards supporting groups working with children and young people, older people and people with disabilities.

On 1st of Feb I ran a sound art "drop-in" day for Arts Wave Devon to give people the opportunity to work with a variety of recording equipment and microphones to improvise and record with a variety of objects. This was inspired by my own work recording improvisations with natural materials and recent collaborations with American sound artist Jeph Jerman.

Efford Walks

Thanks to everyone who gave their time we ran a series of fascinating and enjoyable walks around Efford as part of celebrations of two years of community arts locally. Highlights included a trip to the Elephants Graveyard, stories of Effords last pub and Efford Fort.

View the day's programme here (pdf 198Kb)

Efford Take-a-Party

On 25 June I'll be helping out with celebrations of Efford Take a Part community arts project by supporting a series of creative walks to reveal the hidden aspects of this wonderful Plymouth community perched high up above the River Plym.

More details, including about our walk up from Plymouth Arts here.

Efford Sound Map

The results of our walks and conversations in Efford with the Crazy Glue arts group can be found mapped on the wonderful Radio Aporee. Many thanks to all the participants for making this project so fascinating and enjoyable. And thanks to Udo at Radio Aporee for support. I'm now looking forward to continuing this work in the new year with High View School.

Mapping Efford

As part of the Ambulation exhibition I'll be working at Efford with families from the Crazy Glue group to create an audio guide to the local area based on walks/conversations we share. This is part of the two year Efford Take a Part arts programme.