Gen Doy New Collaborations Bursary 2014

I went to Greenham Common again yesterday on my own to record at the site of POL21, where remains of an underground fuelling station are. There are also metalworks above ground. I really immersed myself in the atmosphere of the Common and of this site in particular. I created sounds making them emanate from the metal “mouth” again, breathing at the same time as the sounds were emerging. I also sang into the “mouth”, recording all this. I dropped stones into the mouth and discovered there was some sort of liquid, probably water, a long way beneath. The sounds were mesmerising. I experimented with singing and speaking words which would grow increasingly indistinct, and vice versa…from indistinct to distinct, as if this was the way in which things would emerge from somewhere in the past or in the ground and gradually become intelligible only to become obliterated and indistinct once again. I’ve been thinking more and more about the collaborative aspect of this and really want to get the project back on track, after all it’s suppose to be about investigating the relationship of sound and image, and experimenting with these two components, not necessarily about making films that seem “good”. I’m wondering though if Lynn being more experimental with the visuals can be done at the same time as using more abstract sounds, or should one aspect (the visuals or the sound) remain fairly accessible while the other element is less “illustrative” or “mimetic” or whatever the best term for this might be? Of course there is also the way in which sound alone can evoke visual images without anything produced by the camera…..the mind is more imaginative than cameras, computers, etc