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sound and text responding to time, distance and movement in the landscape

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Another day, another (imagined) island

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 … Continue reading →

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Two 24hr island compositions on Resonance Extra

During Resonance Extra’s summer break they will be broadcasting two of my 24hr island compositions. The first, on July 31st, is “Once upon a day on Papay” – composed from a series of recordings of places and walks on the … Continue reading →

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A Charity Readathon

Hello. At 17:00 today I am reading some of my walking poetry (for 15 minutes) as part of a 24hr charity Readathon at Jesmond Library. Donations are split 50:50 between the library and the National Literacy Trust (https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/readathon?utm_medium=CA&utm_source=CL). The whole … Continue reading →

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Two days of radio listening

I am delighted to say that I have two 24hr radio works airing in a couple of week’s time on both of Resonance’s radio stations – Resonance FM and Resonance Extra – midnight to midnight on 13th April and midnight … Continue reading →

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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.

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Equinox

I (along with five others) responded to a provocation to respond to the spring equinox by making a walking artwork. This is the result (showing the six works in a 12 minute video). I hope you enjoy. Thanks to Kel … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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Terminalia 2025

It was great to be able to put my Terminalia work into Kel Portman’s call and be part of this wonderful group of walking artists – here is the final version of the works – enjoy.

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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 … … Continue reading →

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So, my PhD is completed …

So, I am delighted to say that my PhD is completed … many thanks to the many people who facilitated this. For anyone who are interested in reading it, it can be accessed, along with all the sound works and … Continue reading →

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tide line walk #4

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 … Continue reading →

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3.00 PM Saturday May 6th

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 … Continue reading →

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3.00 PM 04/02/2023 Resonance EXTRA – walkplacedistancetime

In the south of an imaginary island: movement 2 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 … Continue reading →

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Saturday April 2nd 3.00 pm on Resonance Extra – walkplacedistancetime #2 – No2: no trace

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 … Continue reading →

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walkplacedistancetime

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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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seven days in June: one place in seven movements

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, … Continue reading →

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It’s Radiophrenia time once more

It’s Radiophrenia time once more (7th Feb to 20th Feb; https://radiophrenia.scot); a two-week long festival exploring current trends in sound and transmission art, broadcast from the Centre for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow and curated by Mark Vernon and Barry Burns. … Continue reading →

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Alnay – tomorrow

As ever, I hope that you are, and remain, well This is a reminder for “Alnay” – a winter solstice sound work playing for the 24h before to 24h after the winter solstice which is at 3.58 pm on Tuesday … Continue reading →

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GPS, geo-poetic system

Geo-poetic system was a term coined by Lucy Frears during locative media art research (published 2017). The basis of geopoetics, a theory and practice developed by Scottish philosopher and poet Kenneth White, is to connect humans to the lines of the earth (White cited in McManus 2007: 183), or ‘what’s out there’ (Ingold 1993; 154; White 2005: 200; White 2006: 9). The contact White describes is often between the human mind and the earth, what he calls ‘landscape-mindscape’ (Legendre 2011: 121). Because of the embodied nature of locative media experiences using a smartphone in landscape for these walking art experiences using gps technologies Frears expanded this notion to being ‘landscape-mindscape-bodyscape’ (2017).

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