SARU practitioner Martin Nutt has posted an image of a new project on his website. It revolves around a collections of words and phrases that have become important to him as a direct result in engaging in the writing and …
Ring Out, a new work by Ray Lee, has been touring around the country as of late, here it is at Hull City of Culture, 2017. Sound artist and composer Ray Lee, renowned for creating music for public …
Saru practitioner Gary Charles, working under the moniker, The Static Hand, has recently released a new albums worth of marterial all over the internet. Lemsip Days
7. We might say that field recording is a lens of listening, and as such, it resides in temporality, by necessity. Otherwise it burns that which it amplifies. Reducing a field recording to a point in sound, we risk …
6. I’ve come to think of these recordings as points of place that, as listeners, we probe, repeatedly. Plotting points and placing things, collapsing the distances in which ground becomes figure and figure becomes the possibility of these relationships. …
5. Many questions are heard in mind during such a process of prolonged, and in certain ways removed (some neutral form of the negative) listening. Perhaps these are questions that developed during the initial experience; perhaps they predate even …
4.The time I’ve spent listening back to these recordings is its own kind of experience. I don’t wish to state that being out in the field and being sat on my chair, or walking around my room, are at all …
3. I think these recordings represent only themselves, for me they are material. Paradoxically however, I currently consider field recording to be a point in otherness, a knot in motion. Listening back is a wildly different experience that is …
2. Most of the recordings in this archive haven’t been specifically mastered, or even edited, beyond the contextual necessity of framing, most of them were never made with a particular project in mind. They are indicative of a phase …
The Sonic Art Research Unit (SARU) have commissioned Patrick Farmer to make a selection of his field recording archive public through ‘Radar’, a repository of original research and publications authored by staff and students of Oxford Brookes university. The field …