Claire is a Glasgow based composer, musician and facilitator. She is director of Sonic Bothy (http://atelierpublic.wordpress.com/artists/claire-docherty-sonic-bothy/). Her practice centres around collectively creating new music often in cross-discipline contexts. Jane is a multi-disciplinary artist with a focus on participatory and interactive sound works (www.janepitt.co.uk/proj.html). We met through a ground breaking project called Abrupt Encounters (http://www.abruptencounters.com/?p=658) working with artists with learning differences at Artlink Central, Stirling, Scotland. We live at opposite ends of the UK. This AIR a-n New Collaborations Bursary gave us the opportunity to come together to share conversation and questions around our practices; do some deep 360 degree listening & vocalising (or ‘sounding’); soundmap and document the soundscape as potential score; get to grips with how we filter and embody our perception of environments through sound and touch on how we can interpret this into a meaningful immersive sonic experience for audiences. The University of Glasgow Music Dept kindly allowed us use of a sound proof room, so we were able to dislocate the sounds we’d perceived and gathered outside and work on translating them through instrumentation & drawing in silence without extraneous sonic interference.
