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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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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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