So, I am delighted to say that my PhD is completed … many thanks to the many people who facilitated this.

For anyone who are interested in reading it, it can be accessed, along with all the sound works and images of the printed artefacts, at https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2632643  Given the way it is formatted, this is best viewed on a desktop computer, though it will work on a tablet.

For anyone who prefers a tangible thing, colloquially known as a book, it is available to order for £19.94 from https://www.lulu.com/shop/martin-eccles/sounds-of-walking/paperback/product-rm8djdk.html?page=1&pageSize=4 

This copy is a standard quality paperback version. Should anyone wish to have a high quality print and paper, hardback copy (£60.55 plus postage) I can arrange this – please contact me directly at martinpeccles1[at]gmail.com. 

A 2-volume collection of the poetry – A Walk of Words – is available in book form (high quality print and paper, hardback; £76.29 plus postage) by contacting me directly.

I have three works in this years festival – https://radiophrenia.scot/

As their website says

Saturday June 3rd 15:00h – watch the Cup Final with the sound turned down while you listen to …

a tide line walk     two coasts across two hundred miles       a saltmarsh estuary a rocky shore    one tide cycle     twelve and a half hours of high low high tide         twelve walks      walk one hour rest one hour     twelve walks divided and rebuilt at random       twelve walks each a new tide walk            this is tide line walk #4

walkplacedistancetime is back this coming Saturday.

a tide line walk     two coasts across two hundred miles       a saltmarsh estuary a rocky shore    one tide cycle     twelve and a half hours of high low high tide         twelve walks      walk one hour rest one hour     twelve walks divided and rebuilt at random       twelve walks each a new tide walk            this is tide line walk #3

In the south of an imaginary island: movement 2

I have an imaginary island. As part of a Groundworks project (http://groundworks.org.uk/wp/landlinks/) I made a walk around the south of my island. As per the project instructions I walked between randomly chosen stopping points, each with associated ‘prompt’ words. The result is this sound work; the first half played in January and this second half plays as the next episode of walkplacedistancetime on ResonanceEXTRA at 3.00 PM Saturday February 4th and afterwards at https://extra.resonance.fm/series/walkplacedistancetime

More details, the associated text and a concertina-fold book can be viewed at https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/landlinks/ 

The second week of the MFA degree show – alongside this I’m showing three works – in The Hatton Gallery 1 (Walking Contecion Island), in the Fine Art Department (Seven Days in June), and in The Arches (No. 2: “no trace”). Lots of positive comments so far so I’m feeling very happy.

If you haven’t seen the show yet come along (The Hatton is open tomorrow despite what the poster says!).

walkplacedistancetime – April’s episode is “No 2: no trace”  in the waters of a Northumberland River https://extra.resonance.fm

In the river my walking is primarily an act of walking as touching. The senses that predominantly guide my movement along the bank of the river – vision, sound and balance – are blunted; the use of two sticks turns me into a quadruped, and it is only this that allowed me to move with any confidence at all. Whilst I ‘watch my step’ and ‘look where I am going’ the reality in the river is that I can only see and hear the river’s surface. What shapes my movement is hidden from my sight and hearing, up to a metre below the water’s surface, on the bottom of the river, and apparent only to the touch of my feet or the probing of my sticks.

( https://martinpeccles.com/sound-works/trace-no-trace/ )