Another provocation from Kel Portman resulted in (t)his curation of eight works from 11 artists. My solstice walk around Dove Crag Island started at dawn as I walked the margins of the island.
Category Archives: sound
Ronaigh – on Radiophrenia this coming Sunday
Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/listen/ – 13 April 2025 10:00 am – 11:30 am
July.
40 miles off the top of the Outer Hebrides.
Stand below St Ronan’s church. Walk south on lazy bed corrugations to the low cliffs.
Turn east. Pass two geos. Walk up towards the lighthouse and the east coast peak, to stand above a land-slipped cliff edge.
Walk west onto, along, over the ridge and down the long slope to the west side of the northern peninsula.
Walk onto the rock field. Walk to the end of the peninsula. Walk round the tip and south along the eastern coast to the landing.
Radiophrenia and three of my works
Radiophrenia is back – Monday April 7th to Sunday April 20th.
I have three works appearing and the first is Hallaig on 7 April 2025 4:30 am – 6:30 am
May.
The Hebridean island of Raasay.
From a beach below Gualann na Leac walk up the slope to the path, the cairn and the milepost. Follow the track north into the birchwood and walk down through the woods towards the waterfall; stop on a small bluff. Retrace my way, cross the Hallaig Burn, walk up the hill to the lost (by edict of a nineteenth century landlord) village of Hallaig.
Walk the stones of the houses.
Walk back, south, cross the burn at the ford. Walk on, beyond the milepost, then turn, and walk down the slope to the beach.
Remember, no archive, no replays, live only – Radiophrenia – https://radiophrenia.scot/
A walk on Dove Crag Island for Terminalia 2025
Dove Crag Island is created by my human-scale movement and my imagination. I walk the island once each month across the turning of the year. For Terminalia I walk an eight-mile shoreline … a boundary of an imagined island … in north Northumberland.
In light snow I walk
the shore of Dove Crag Island.
The land is sodden.
Amongst The Oaks
one blackbird flies, then three more.
Cold grips the woodland.
Boot-knock on wet boards.
I stand on the wooden bridge
above the tumbling burn.
The shoreline turns east.
Amongst trees my chill eases
as the wind drops away.
I watch a field empty.
Sheep run to the sound of
the shepherd’s quad bike.
Radiophrenia schedule announced
and now the schedule is announced – https://radiophrenia.scot/schedule/ – lots of amazing radio to listen to, 24 hours a day.
My three pieces are scheduled as follows
Island Suite: movement 1; Beàrnaraigh Beag, Sunday 27th August, 05:45-08:00
Watershed, Wednesday 30th August, 07:00-07:30
Island Suite: movement 2; Alnay, Sunday 3rd September, 05:45-10:00
Have a listen …
23rd February 2022 … Terminalia
In celebration of the ancient Roman god Terminus, god of boundaries, whose festival is 23rd February … I walked the shoreline of my imaginary lockdown island – Contención Island (https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/contencion-island/). Although I’ve waked this in sections before, I have never previously walked it in one go.
So, starting at about 05:50 I walked through the dawn and ended at 10:00 – four hours – the length of the shoreline was about 11 miles and the walk total was about 12 once I add in the distance from my house to the shore. Unsurprisingly, there wasn’t much of a dawn chorus along the shoreline in February … and it was quite windy … force 4 to 5 gusting 6 to 7.
I started in the small bay to the southwest and walked clockwise, with the sun; Happy Terminalia.

A walk round Contención Island
Lockdown-2 has ended, and this stage of the work is complete.
You can find the work together here as a playlist or at https://martinpeccles.com/other-sound-works/a-walk-round-contencion-island/
A video of the maps is here – https://youtu.be/wQyWSlwLn-s
A walk round Contención Island Day 28 Wednesday December 2nd
Wednesday December 2nd, 09:28 – 09:31
308.6o to 321.4o
Wind SW 3 (gusting 5), T 7C (feels like 4C), 75% cloud cover
Crows and pigeons stand watch sentinels in the tree tops postman nods hello “that’ll be int’restin” blares the man at his phone as he wheels his bike

A walk round Contención Island Day 27 Tuesday December 1st
Tuesday December 1st, 10:53 – 10:56
192.9o to 250.7o
Wind W 2 (gusting 4), T 3C (feels like 0C), 37% cloud cover
Walking through rank grass I’m wet from mid-calf down morning dew still heavy One lark’s rise is joined by two two more a quintet they circle away

A walk round Contención Island Day 26 Monday November 30th
Monday November 30th, 07:49 – 07:52
244.3o to 257.1o
Wind WSW 4 (gusting 6), T 8C (feels like 5C), 62% cloud cover
The wren materialises only when it is still in the emerging dawn The morning commute at the bus stop two masked schoolboys study their phones
