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Matthew Shenton
Oct 4, 2024
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, 2024
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
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Matthew Shenton
Sep 17, 2024
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.
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Matthew Shenton
Aug 22, 2024
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...
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Matthew Shenton
Aug 19, 2024
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.
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Matthew Shenton
Jun 27, 2024
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...
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Matthew Shenton
Jun 10, 2024
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.
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Matthew Shenton
Jun 4, 2024
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
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Matthew Shenton
Apr 13, 2024
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
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Matthew Shenton
Feb 8, 2024
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
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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...
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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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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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Matthew Shenton
Jun 27, 2023
SPILL Residency 2023
I recently spent a wonderful week at the SPILL Think Tank in Ipswich as part of their artist residency scheme. Throughout the week I...
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