Category Archives: walk

23rd February 2022 … Terminalia

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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.

Alnay – a winter solstice sound work

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WHEN December 20th 15:58 to December 22nd 15:58; a 4h30m sound work running continuously from 24h before to 24h after the winter solstice

WHERE The Arches, Newcastle University campus (this is an outdoor venue – The Arches lead from the area outside the Playhouse and Students Union through to the Quadrangle; what3words location ///flags.inner.hatch)

 

 

 

A walk round Contención Island Day 24 Saturday November 28th

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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

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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