The latest manifestation of my sound work “No. 2: ‘no trace’” is playing (as a stereo mix) on radioCona: Storyscapes SE – an FM sound art exhibition, live from Ljubljana, Slovenia, running from 18th to 23rd Jan 2020 from 6.33PM. … Continue reading →
Category: Landscape
Sward {skin of the earth}
My new chapbook, Sward {skin of the earth}, published by Sampson Low Ltd, is available for purchase here Sward + post and packing UK £3.50 GBP EU £4.50 GBP Rest of the world £5.00 GBP Sward represents my walks up and down the central reservation of the A240, Kingston Road, from the Tolworth Roundabout to … Continue reading Sward {skin of the earth} →
four rants for the summer solstice (after John Cage, 1977)
To celebrate the winter solstice I will be playing a four hour, four-channel, sound piece in The Arches on the campus of Newcastle University. It will play continuously from 09:00 on Saturday 21st December until 09:00 on Monday 23rd December. In … Continue reading →
Radical Cirencester
Cirencester seems like a typical High-Tory Cotswold sort of town, Men in yellow and red cord trousers - Profuse pocket kerchiefs, tweed jackets, Highly polished shiny brown brogue shoes, Conservative ladies who take luncheon, Just one silent begg...
And the End of all our Exploring around Cirencester
The end of all our exploring The day started auspiciously and unusually: A chat at the bus stop with a direct descendant of Tom Paine: ‘My father maintained that we were related. We did have first editions, in fact: The Rights of Man and The Age o...
Cambridge Road Estate Tree Poems
Below are two of the poems I wrote specially for and read on Alison Fure’s Walk with Jane Soundwalk with the Museum of Walking back in September. There is another soundwalk taking place on Saturday 19th October from 10.30am. It is FREE but please book via the Walk with Jane website. See Alison’s blog for … Continue reading Cambridge Road Estate Tree Poems →
Walk with Jane on the Cambridge Estate
Alison Fure is leading a Soundwalk as part of her Walks with Jane project, in conjunction with The Museum of Walking, through the Cambridge Estate in Kingston Upon Thames, this Saturday evening, 7th September, 2019. From the Museum of Walking website event page: This … Continue reading Walk with Jane on the Cambridge Estate →
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019: Environmental Storytelling: A Digital Frontier for Narrative Geography
This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.--------------------------Below is the written component of the paper I presented in the Geographies of Interactive Digital Narratives session – which I also co-convened – at the Roya...
RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2019: Environmental Storytelling: A Digital Frontier for Narrative Geography
This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.--------------------------Below is the written component of the paper I presented in the Geographies of Interactive Digital Narratives session – which I also co-convened – at the Roya...
Sward
Meaning “sod, turf” developed from the notion of the “skin” of the earth (compare Old Norse grassvörðr, Danish grønsvær “greensward”). Walking the central reservation of the A240 Kingston Road, from Tolworth Roundabout to the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames boundary with the Borough of Epsom and Ewell. The project is called ‘Sward’ after reading … Continue reading Sward →
Callanais Walks 5th September 2015
What is commonly referred to as The Callanais Standing Stones are a late-neolithic era stone circle and avenue, situated on a low hill above East Loch Roag in the west of the outer Hebridean island of Lewis. However, there are … Continue reading →
A Walk with Horns: “playing” the St John’s Harbour Symphony
The St John’s Harbour Symphony (http://www.soundsymposium.com/about/harbour-symphony/) (played on 1st July this year (2019)) is a striking sonic event. A composition for ship’s horns it takes place in, and resonates around, the natural amphitheatre of St John’s Harbour, Newfoundland. In a … Continue reading →
Wandering Games Conference 2019: Theorising wandering game experiences: post-phenomenology, navigation and narrative
This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.--------------------------Below is the written component of the paper I presented at the Wandering Games Conference on the 12th July 2019. The superscript numbers in the text indicate...
Wandering Games Conference 2019: Theorising wandering game experiences: post-phenomenology, navigation and narrative
This is an embedded Microsoft Office presentation, powered by Office.--------------------------Below is the written component of the paper I presented at the Wandering Games Conference on the 12th July 2019. The superscript numbers in the text indicate...
Hogsmill Tiddlers
At the wooden bridge, beside the washing-willow, under frayed dare-devil rope-swing, we small-fry gather; splash-paddle in the sun-filled slipstream, our expectant jam jars perched ready on banks for contents of day-glo nets on bamboo poles, skim-dunked, dipped into laughing sparkle, we seek out elusive piscine lurkers, shoal-darters, minnow-school pretty-carpers, spike-backed silver-bellied sticklebacks, shimmer and shift … Continue reading Hogsmill Tiddlers →
Brief thoughts on a PhD journey completed
Well its done. I've been awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Archaeology.My research has ranged over landscape archaeology, landscape history, monasticism, cultural geography, psychogeography, landscape in art and literature, folklore and further afie...
Brief thoughts on a PhD journey completed
Well its done. I've been awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy in Archaeology.My research has ranged over landscape archaeology, landscape history, monasticism, cultural geography, psychogeography, landscape in art and literature, folklore and further afie...
“Beàrnaraigh” – a 24h art radio show on Radiophrenia
With the recent conclusion of the Beàrnaraigh series on Resonance EXTRA it was a pleasure to have the complete 24h version accepted for broadcast by Radiophrenia 2019 (26th May 2019 11:59 pm – 27th May 2019 11:59 pm). Radiophrenia is a temporary … Continue reading →
48. Tim Ingold, “The Temporality of the Landscape”
I decided to read Tim Ingold’s essay “The Temporality of the Landscape” for two reasons. First, Doreen Massey mentioned it as an example of thinking about space and temporality, and second, in my experience, I’ve always found that Ingold has interesting things to say. It’s an odd essay, though, and while I don’t agree with […]
Dead Trees #1
It is the Urban Tree Festival this weekend – celebrating London’s amazing Urban Forest. While we celebrate our wonderful leafy friends this weekend, I am also commemorating the significant number of trees that are being destroyed at an unprecedented rate at the moment in the Royal Borough of Kingston Upon Thames. This is not something … Continue reading Dead Trees #1 →