Channel Weather Symmetry : I recently gave a talk on the project’s progress at the Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol, where I’m a resident. Here I am flapping my arms around trying to explain something. The Rhossili half of the project was recently tested in a howling gale by a hardy bunch of walkers, and I’m planning a test at Brean Down soon which will hopefully coincide with heavy snowfall – get in touch if you’d like to come along and test.
I’ve been Tumblrblogging the Channel Weather Symmetry project for a while now, documenting field visits, stories, music composition, photography, daft stories … anything goes. I find Tumblr ideal for doing this, it’s like a digital scrapbook to throw ideas and thoughts into.
50: 50 tracks produced between 2002 and 2008. 4 hours and 6 minutes of idyllic electronica, mangled disco, unpronouncable song titles, synths rescued from skips, recycled folk melodies, bad production, hidden Wu-Tang Clan references, and gutwrenching puns (‘One Man And His Bog’, ‘Bear In A G String’…). The tracks are ordered from Z-A, just for the hell of it, so you’ll find beautiful quiet tracks rubbing shoulders with hugely uncomfortable slabs of noise. If you’ve enjoyed this free album please consider donating or purchasing a paid-for download or physical CD as a mark of your support and to help keep me producing creative things.
Pervasive Media Studio residency: I am currently resident at Bristol’s Pervasive Media Studio where I’m working on the Channel Weather Symmetry project until the end of 2011. The studio is a unique and inspiring mixture of businesses, artists and academics, all doing extraordinary things with pervasive media. Here’s my page at the studio, and here’s my project there.
PRS Foundation Award: I’ve been commissioned by Local Journeys and the National Trust to create a series of locative aware music compositions for their ‘Channel Weather Symmetry’ project, which is grant funded by the PRS Foundation and others through the Beyond Borders scheme (more information here). The project will be based at two National Trust locations either side of the Bristol Channel – Rhossili (Wales) and Brean Down (England). The project will culminate in free public events taking place at both sites in Spring 2012 to launch the series of musical and film works.
