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Skin like paper (C=Claire, J=Jane)
We’re standing halfway up a stairway that weaves it’s way sharply and narrowly from the leafy street through the modernist backside of buildings; we’re under a tall tree canopy, the rear of 19th C town houses stream away to our […]
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sound maps
These maps describe our synchronised listening experiences. We’re used to listening and then vocalising an immediate interpretation of a place together with groups but this exercise allowed us to listen and map in silence. We’d done some exploration of various […]
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Hear our sound mapping zone
In advance of our post about making sound maps and where we made them, here’s a link to a couple of clips from the ambient field recording made while we ‘mapped’, for you to fill your ears. Best listen with […]
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Meanwhile.. Scores & Fixing it..
One of our aims for this new collaboration is to look at graphic scoring, visual documentation, interpretation and mapping of sound. We want to explore useful ways of having a record of the sounds we find and make in order […]
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Perceivers
How people filter their perception of the environment is key to our work together. Considering audience and musicians as active perceivers receiving & processing multiple data not units in space. Definition & Concepts in Denis Smalley – Spectromorphology, acted as […]
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Finding the Space
In the months before our 3 day sounding lab we sporadically exchanged references that excited us, stuff we’d read, artists that interest us, workshops we’d led or attended, observations from making new work.. references included: Denis Smalley – Spectromorphology: explaining […]
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sound carriers
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 […]