Songlines: Thelma Hulbert Gallery, 9 April 2105

On Thursday I ran a family sound recording workshop for the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in East Devon. The children recorded the sounds, particularly the birdsong, of Dumpdon Hill, and old iron age hill fort, then combined these with sounds from the Michael Fairfax installation in the gallery space - a series of strung wires on walls. We used Audacity to mix the sounds.

Listen to the childrens work on soundcloud ...

Songlines - Thelma Hulbert Gallery Workshop

On Thursday 9th April I'm running a family birdsong workshop at the Thelma Hulbert Gallery in Honiton, Devon. Places limited to twelve, booking here.

In the morning we'll visit a local nature reserve to enjoy, learn about and record birdsong. After lunch we'll work in the gallery space with the current exhibition by Michael Fairfax to record the sounds of his installation. We'll then combine the two using laptops to produce our own compositions.

Ebb and Flow at RAMM, Exeter, opens today

Chris Watson (L) and Tony Whitehead (R) on the Exe Estuary, Devon

Over the past twelve months I've been helping wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson with locations in Devon for the recordings that were today installed in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum's new Ebb and Flow exhibition.

Full details of the exhibition can be found here.

Kinterbury Creek Sound Post

Thanks to the 10th St Budeaux Cubs and Scouts the recordings for the new "sound-post" at Kinterbury Creek in Plymouth are complete. You can listen to the sounds below.

This project has been supported by Plymouth City Council and community arts company Take-a-Part.

10th St Budeaux Cubs and Scouts visit Kinterbury Creek

On 2 June 2014 10th St Budeaux Cubs and Scouts visited Kinterbury Creek ... this is an audio record of the sounds they heard, and their descriptions of the Creek. These will be used as the basis for audio tracks for a "sound-post" to be installed at the Creek later this year.

This project has been supported by Plymouth City Council and community arts company Take-a-Part.

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.