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For the Sake of a Single Poem: a Benedictine monk’s meditations on Rilke
· Since 2022
Are you a Ghost Hunter? An Audio Trail of The Old Church
Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 9ES, UK
St Mary’s Old Church is London’s only surviving Elizabethan churchyard, where the tombstone inscriptions have been lost to weather and time. This self-directed audio trail pieces together the fragments of story. Produced October 2021.
Birling Gap
Isabella Bonner-Evans
Birling Gap, Eastbourne, UK
An audio piece about the mythical landscape of Birling Gap – a wild cliffy landscape in East Sussex, UK
England Coast Path Storywalks
Ordnance Survey - Secret Stories app
12 heritage trails along the England Coast Path in Somerset, revealing the hidden history of each location and all sewn together with curious Somerset dialect words.
For the Sake of a Single Poem: a Benedictine monk’s meditations on Rilke
Saint John's Abbey, Collegeville, MN
Beginning with a reading of Rilke's "For the Sake of a Single Poem", before a statue of a young monastic, Benedict, sequential echoes utilize space and place to weave together spoken and musical meditations on Rilke's take on creativity and loss.
Hilbre Island at High Tide
Hilbre Island, Wirral, UK
I compiled sounds recorded during a walk around Hilbre Island during high tide, when the island is cut off from mainland Wirral. I wanted to document the atmosphere of the island, for anyone unwilling or unable to make the journey themselves.
historicity: London – A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Angus Lockyer, Jelena Sofronijevic
London, UK
(SUMMARY ABOVE)
A Linguistic Bestiary of Oyster Island
(RE)VERB / Gesso.fm
New York, NY, USA
A parable about rising oceans, human violence, and the strangeness of our mortal coil, which plays out on a tiny, Atlantis-like speck of rock in the middle of New York Harbor.
An Evening Symphony, with Barbed Wire
Exeter, UK
A Sound Walk podcast conversation. Composer Emma Welton walks, listens and talks with artist Volkhardt Müller an Exeter-based multidisciplinary artist with a professional interest in landscape, how people shape it and how it shapes people.
Back on the Drom: Steps in Time (episode 1)
The listener joins our hosts Livvi & Gus as they explore the old ruin of Moore Hall, near Lough Cara Co. Mayo. Although one is not required to listen in situ, it would certainly enhance the experience - safely exploring as one listens to the piece.