Listening to the Landscape 23: Reflections
After ten months of sonic experimentation, artistic mentoring and sound collection it is time for a period of evaluation, reflection and for
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Matthew Shenton
Oct 2
Listening to the Landscape 22: Field Irrigation
Trying to grow crops in a dry climate will require irrigation of some kind, and with any farm machinery comes interesting sounds and rhythms
Matthew Shenton
Sep 17
Listening to the Landscape 21: Flagpoles and Bins
Home to both the village hall and quoits club, the Holbrook village green sits almost slap bang in the centre of the village.
Matthew Shenton
Sep 8
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
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
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...
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