Listening to the Landscape 20: grasshopper
The weather report had promised a mainly sunny day, but with quite a robust breeze and before long I could hear some faint chirps and clicks
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Matthew Shenton
- Aug 22
Listening to the Landscape 19: Leigh-on-sea
An important part of my Arts Council funded DYCP has been to meet with and learn from inspiring practitioners through mentoring and...
Matthew Shenton
- Aug 19
Listening to the Landscape 18 - ants up close
In an attempt to attract pollinators to visit our small front garden, we had left the lawn untouched by the mower for well over a year.
Matthew Shenton
- Jul 18
Listening to the Landscape 17 - thunderous rooks
Rooks are a wonderful, if inescapable, part of my daily life. At the north end of the village there are at least four rookeries to be...
Matthew Shenton
- Jul 8
Listening to the Landscape 16 - underwater soundscape
'Hidden sound' equipment can reveal unknown worlds that both blow your mind and help you to experience the world differently
Matthew Shenton
- Jun 27
Listening to the Landscape 15 - village drones
For the 20 minutes I stood on the path the drone obliterated nearly all other sounds in the vicinity. At around...
Matthew Shenton
- Jun 24
Listening to the Landscape 14 - holy bees
Tucked away at the edge of the churchyard (behind a formidable growth of nettles and centuries old gravestones) are a number of bee hives
Matthew Shenton
- Jun 10
Listening to the Landscape 13 - munching sheep
I’m not sure I have ever really watched sheep up close for any length of time – it is amazing just how much grass they eat and how quickly.
Matthew Shenton
- Jun 4
Listening to the Landscape 12 - quiet solitude
This is the first of my village recordings to have taken place inside a building; that of All Saints Church. The church sits in the heart of
Matthew Shenton
- May 20
Listening to the Landscape 11 - screaming swift
A welcome sound returned to the village on Wednesday 8th May, when I heard the familiar scream of the swift for the first time in 2024.
Matthew Shenton
- May 13
Listening to the Landscape 10 - Dawn Chorus 2024
On Sunday 5th May I broadcast the Dawn Chorus from Holbrook Creek to a global audience as part of Reveil 11.
Matthew Shenton
- Apr 28
Listening to the Landscape 9 - a windy creek
Over the last few weeks I have been preparing equipment and looking for a suitable location from which to broadcast the dawn chorus on Sunda
Matthew Shenton
- Apr 13
Listening to the Landscape 8 - turning data into sound
How I started to investigate what local data on the natural world is available, how to incorporate this into my sound work
Matthew Shenton
- Mar 14
Listening to the Landscape 7 - hedgerows
A 2012 hedgerow report states Holbrook had 468 hedges running for a total a distance of 41km (25 miles) within the parish. They are nature's
Matthew Shenton
- Feb 8
Listening to the landscape 6 - Mr Whippy and water
A project to explore the sounds of my village had been bubbling away in the back of my mind for many years, but I had never discussed it
Matthew Shenton
- Jan 29
Listening to the Landscape 5 - data and chickens
Work, windy weather and a very tickly cough made field recording a little tricky this week. However, I took inspiration from
Matthew Shenton
- Dec 31, 2023
Listening to the Landscape 4 - the project
I had been kicking around an idea for a community project examining how global external factors influence village soundscapes. I wanted...
Matthew Shenton
- Nov 21, 2023
Listening to the Landscape 3 - the rural soundscape
In this blog series I have discussed in part one how relocating to Suffolk inspired me to investigate how other artists have responded...
Matthew Shenton
- Oct 29, 2023
Listening to the Landscape 2 - archaic words
Early on in my research I became obsessed with the poetry of Suffolk's rural language and started to weave this into my sound work. I...
Matthew Shenton
- Oct 16, 2023
Listening to the Landscape 1 - The Beginning
Listening to the Landscape will be a series of blog posts about my land/sound scape work in the hope of constructing a coherent narrative
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