
The Ecomusicology Project, Outlands Network,
Lost Property and Eastern Ear present an afternoon of field recordings, trumpet, voice and sounding objects at The Ecomusicology Project, Stanmer, Brighton, led by two visiting artists from Norfolk.
Lost Property and Eastern Ear present an afternoon of field recordings, trumpet, voice and sounding objects at The Ecomusicology Project, Stanmer, Brighton, led by two visiting artists from Norfolk.
A FREE event, but donations are appreciated.
Map to the site: https://ecomusicology.org.uk/…/01/map-from-village.jpg
If the weather is bad we will relocate to the Earthship at Stanmer Organics.
‘COAST’ is a solo project by Norwich-based trumpeter Chris Dowding exploring edgelands through field recordings, Ableton Live and trumpet.
The project centres around a compositional method exploring words translated into musical notes, via a descriptive process referring to field recordings made on coastlines. It was debuted as part of a YARMONICS event in Great Yarmouth, and there are plans afoot to adapt the project to the water-held boundaries of Shetland.
In ‘COAST’, lush looped trumpet textures are underpinned by bass synths and cycled beats.
Chris is a trumpeter, composer and workshop leader based in Norwich. He performs regularly around the UK with Natural Causes, Rude 2.0 (with the trombonist Annie Whitehead) and ‘improvising brass band’ The Brass Monkeys.
Soundlines from Doggerland
by Drarculus
by Drarculus
A specially created piece from the East of England involving the sounding of cultural artefacts including: an ear-like conch that blows a (kind of) E for east. It has been sounded on the solstice from high places over doggerland as it remembers its mollusc maker from other eastern shores; the chatter, chak and caw of rooks and jackdaws in dual-species murmuration and conversation in their ancestral Norfolk sky realms; harmonically distorted ritual bowls as used in East Anglian tribal gatherings; beats made from sounded ice sheet on a Norwich model boating lake; wild vocalisations barely tamed through electronic fx.
Dr Charlotte Arculus (Drarculus) is a bag lady, improvisor, creative producer and audio-visual artist. At heart of her creative inquiry is the exploration of collective expression and murmuration. Her solo work under the moniker Arculutron is an ongoing series of experiments at the intersections of electronics, acoustics, digital media and posthuman/feminist material philosophy. Charlotte works with tricksy sound technologies that push back at the human; she celebrates the role of machines as playful partners.
Plus more to be added as we go on!
Many thanks to Outlands Network exchange programme for funding this event.