We are approaching the broadcast of my second 24hr work of the summer. This coming Thursday (3rd September) “Once upon a day on Alnay” is to be broadcast on Resonance Extra and Resonance FM (https://extra.resonance.fm/ or https://www.resonancefm.com/)
24 hours, one day, on an imaginary Northumberland island. An island created by my body, time and a place. Listen to time pass across the day; hear my footfall as I walk the island; reflect on walking, scale, distance and being human.
Enjoy.
Category Archives: time
Solstice/Sunstead
Another turn of the year artistic “provocation” from Kel Portman and another curated video of responses https://youtu.be/Pd2t3LxoIdI?si=E9BIvCWW7UfvDNT4
There are 19 contributing artists and it is a pleasure to be part of such a collaboration.
The video lasts about 40 minutes (my piece appears at 10 min. 40 sec.) and the range of responses is well worth watching. I hope you enjoy it.
A technical PS. The video is not meant to have subtitles; on YouTube subtitles (called closed captioning) is a user setting that might be turned on. Turning it off is via one of the line of controls along the bottom right of the screen.
Solstice June 2025
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.
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
A walk round Contención Island Day 25 Sunday November 29th
Sunday November 29th, 08:56 – 08:59
25.7o to 38.6o
Wind W 1 (gusting 3), T 6C (feels like 6C), 100% cloud cover
Five blackbirds flow into through up and over hedge porch roof ridge gone Front gardens used as carparks or vegetable plots a dunnock sings Grey-cowled and white-eyed the jackdaws strut the pavement the mist is lifting
A walk round Contención Island Day 24 Saturday November 28th
Saturday November 28th, 10:03 – 10:09
77.1o to 90.0o
Wind NW 1 (gusting 2), T 1C (feels like 0C), 50% cloud cover
Two mallards scoot out from the laurel stop and preen looking over a bridge Water frozen in the butt frost crisps the grass and whitens winter stalks Synchronized clatter of sticks sword dancers or perhaps a martial art
A walk round Contención Island Day 23 Friday November 27th
Friday November 27th, 07:25 – 07:41
51.4o to 62.3o
Wind SW 1 (gusting 2), T 2C (feels like 2C), 75% cloud cover
The blackbird watches as I approach then flies lost into the dawn The jackdaw mob hangs at the dark end of the street crotchet dots on ariels Crossing the dene where blackcap sang to chiffchaff’s call memories of May
