Located audio sound artists Ralph Hoyte and Phill Phelps (Bristol/UK) launch their latest located audio sound art work “Colston’s Last Journey” in its international iteration at this evening’s Cafe event, where they join to discuss making sound art about slavery.
“Colston’s Last Journey” is a 21st century 3D interactive audio-walk created in response to the toppling of the statue of Edward Colston in June 2020. We are layering a sea of ghostly whispers, sfx and music over the route along which the Colston statue was dragged from its toppling at Broad Quay in the centre of Bristol to its watery end at Pero’s Bridge. Afloat on this sea of sound are 7 ghost slave ships – the ghosts of actual slave ships which sailed from this very port in the 17th and 18th century, bound for the West Coast of Africa to pick up enslaved Africans, then on to the West Indies to offload their ‘cargo’. In the work, each slave ship represents one particular aspect of the trade in enslaved Africans.
The soundscape – the parallel soundworld – is, of course, invisible. But you can follow it with your ears! It is accessed by downloading an app to your mobile device (smartphone), then going to the Colston plinth in the centre of Bristol, opening the app, putting on headphones, and following the instructions. This will launch you on your own personal voyage upon the sea of sound.
Colston’s Last Journey is being launched in two stages: today, 27 September 2022, the international iteration: YOU nominate your own personal statue/site associated with slavery, tell the app where you are – and the soundscape magically unfolds itself around wherever you are, anywhere in the world. The Bristol-anchored iteration will be launched in the spring of 2023 in Bristol.
This Cafe event will be run on Zoom and is moderated by Sound Walk September co-producer, Andrew Stuck.
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Afloat on the sea of sound there are seven ghost slave ships
Located audio sound artists Ralph Hoyte and Phill Phelps launch their latest located audio sound art work “Colston’s Last Journey” in its international iteration at this evening’s Cafe event, where they join to discuss making sound art about slavery.
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Roll out this walk thru version of Ralph Hoyte's Colston’s Last Journey work of soundart about Bristol and the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans anywhere in the world (iPhone; we're getting there for Android). For further info and to experience the work search colstonslastjourney.uk and follow the link to the 'worldwide' version.
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