After a few days of wet weather I headed out on the 13th of July to climb Schiehallion mountain. Accompanied by my boyfriend Neil, we made good time and spent most of the day in the remote landscape.
The walk was quite quiet and there were a few other groups out on the mountain, couples, families and lone ramblers. What amazed me most was the stillness of the day. There was hardly any wind, hardly a sound and so, I was aware of the vastness on the space around me. What sounds there were seemed to travel across the mountainside to reach me and seemed for my ears only. Maybe no-one else was hearing the sounds I was or were hearing them in a different way than I.
The recordings I’ve chosen are an attempt to express the space of the landscape and my experience within it. My composition (currently) is from the foot to the peak, a form of document of my ascent on Schiehallion.
http://soundcloud.com/kim-walker/clouds_prevented_…
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The Key to a Fragile Silence by jim crumley
