New places and projects

Strata visited the site of our next project.. an audio tour with commentary by local people and friends of the cemetery at Milton Road, Weston.

We hope to launch the gps audio tour at an event to welcome people to the cemetery to re-open the chapel, sometime this summer.

There's also plans afoot to combine the talents of the Soundlines participants with the audio tour structure to create a special kind of themed cemetery walk for later in the year...

And More Tests

An evening walk, beautiful platinum skies and metallic blue sea. Stunning panoramas and of course sumptuous sounds too! 40 minutes seems a good length of time to record a walk. Still more left to explore, but lots of atmosphere and contrast as you cover the hilltop. Log and keyboard are working fine, and most of the tweaks from Russ & Jane's visit yeaterday have been made and are working fine. Exciting to feel it coming together. Iterative not just in technology testing, but also in approaching layers of creativity through revisiting the landscape.

Soundlines field trial

A bitterly cold day with pale skies ..... snow on the hills around and the tide very far out. Sand banks glittered like huge fish.

Trialling the user generated sounds mapped by Jackie and Russ was interesting and exciting (especially as I didn't know where sounds had been placed.)
Everything seemed accurately place - but there was hardly any wind.
Birdsong mingled with it's real equivalent leaking round the edge of my headphones, the far away shouts of children playing ... a monks' bell ....
A few tweaks and we're nearly there.

Mapping the maps

Traces from the three walkers (Russ, Jane, Jackie) last Tuesday - overlaid on a new map for the live area, co-ordinates to be used by Ben for the web playback too - although the map image will be redesigned for the website.

Live from the field...

Mapping traces and soundfeatures for interactive avebury.

(sent by mobile from the secret little area in Avebury that does have phone signal!)

Sand Point - making the Trace

Me slowly turning round - Russ determinedly striding out!




Amazing sunset over Cardiff ..... strange green light on Exmoor, shimmering edges where land meets sea, on and on into the west.