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 …
I have three works in this years festival – https://radiophrenia.scot/
As their website says
RADIOPHRENIA is a temporary art radio station broadcasting intermittently from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. The broadcast schedule includes a series of 16 newly commissioned radio works, 14 Live-to-Air performances as well as live studio shows, screenings, shorts and pre-recorded features. As in previous years the majority of the programme will be made up from selections submitted to an international open call for sound art and radio works.
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
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.
embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles
I have a new radio show, broadcasting on Resonance Extra, at 15.00 on the first Saturday of each month https://extra.resonance.fm/series/walkplacedistancetime
tomorrows episode is “four Northumberland rants” inspired by John Cage’s 49 Waltz’s for the five boroughs framed in the musical motif of the traditional Northumberland dance style of the Rant four walks to locations across Northumberland locations and recording durations chosen using chance procedures listen to distance time place explored on a human scale
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.
New at https://martinpeccles.bandcamp.com is an album based on seven walks in Alaska.
A place. Bounded by the Bering Sea and mountains; land lived on and from for generations. Walk, stand, look at, over and across the land; scrub, hill, marsh, river, sea, town, gold. In this composition of field recordings and poetry, through seven replicated walks I explore embodied time, distance and movement across this place. Each day re-sets the image of this place; a new walk, a fresh exploration, an open path – the same place. Each replication is walked once; sequential sections of seven walks; seven consecutive days – seven days in June – one place in seven movements.
The album comes with a bonus 2.3 metre long poem.
martin.p.eccles: walk time place sound 