Latest post on the winnall moors sound walk blog, comes from recordings around 4:30 on Christmas Day. The recordings include the sound of a plastic bottle trapped in the current of a hatch on the River Itchen.
At the invitation of microbiologist, Simon Park I was delighted to visit the microbiology labs at the University of Surrey. Simon had set up a yeast culture to see if I could hear the microbiotic sound. Whislt there, I also became fascinated with the sound of magnetic fleas stirring various liquids. The gaseous songs of yeast microbes and percussion of magnetic fleas are audible here sebastianehegarty.wordpress.com/.
As part of a November survey of water sounds, the field-recording blog Sonic Terrain features a shortened version of my sonic river for the Theatre Royal, Winchester.
Extracts from my soundscapes for the Theatre Royal (Winchester) art event and their collisons with other voices and muscians, can be heard on my digital notebook blog. This includes Hossein Hadisi's Avant-garde Composer Ensemble (ACE) and Winchester Community choir. A shortened version of the sonic river, running through the theatre's public address system, is avaiable at winnall moors sound walk.
I will be taking part in the 10 Days Across the City Arts Festival in Winchester, UK. On the 31st October as part of the opening event (map, plot, plunder, possession), I will be premeiring three soundscapes within the auditorium of the Royal Theatre. The avant-garde music group ACE will be interacting with the space, soundscapes and events taking place in the theatre, which include: sound/music, dance, flash poetry, visual art and installations. Details here
My recording of a water boatmen from the dipping pond at Winnall Moors, has been selcted and used in the collaborative album from SoundFjord: A Silent Swaying Breath.
The water boatmen also features (slightly submerged) in the promo for the record. Watch it here.
The album is released for download on 17/10/2011.
I have started a digital notebook/diary in the form of a new wordpress blog. The notebook will be used as a space to document and discuss work in progress and contextualise my thinking & practice. Visit
The second installment of my Soundscapes of the South, produced by Steve Harris at Radio Solent, will be featured on Radio 4's Pick of the Week this Sunday (04/09/11). Details here. The full documentary is available on BBC iPlayer till Monday 5/09/11: Listen here
Four of my soundscapes for Radio Solent are featured in the documentary Soundscapes of the South, broadcast on Radio Solent this coming Bank Holiday Monday (29.08.11)at 18:30. The soundscapes include recordings from: Abbostbury Swannery; Lymington Ferry; Winchester Cathedral and a short sound walk through Winnall Moors. Details here
Three of the seven soundscapes commissioned by BBC Radio Solent, have been added to the sound archive.
To listen click here
A 20 minute discussion of soundscape in relation to my own practice for BBC Radio 3, will be broadcast on Tuesday 9th August at 19:50. The programme was written by myself and produced in Bristol by Chris Ledgard.
Full details here
A compilation CD that comes with the first publication from Framework Radio, will feature Resistance 4. Other artists include: Marc Behrens, Lee Patterson and Gill Arno. Details available from the Framework Radio website.
A short article written for Hampshire Wildlife Trust and discussing the winnall moors sound walk, has been published in the Trust's newsletter. The article is availble here.
My field-recording, Subterranean What?, reaches 513 plays on soundcloud. The recording of a Water Boatman in the dipping pond at Winnal Moors can be heard on soundcloud
The harmonic fence recording from my Hengistbury Head soundscape has been addedd to the other line recordings. Listen here
Extracts from the BBC Radio Solent soundscapes documentary by Steve Harrris will be featured on BBC Radio 4 on sunday 1st My at 18:30: Listen here
The full documentary is available on BBC iPlayer until 2nd May: Listen here
Slightly edited versions of some of the soundscapes for Radio Solent appear to be avaialble on audio boo. The Watercress line soundscape is available here
BBC Radio Solent are broadcasting a special half-hour documentary on the soundscapes I have been composing for the Friday morning Julien Clegg show. The documentary produced by Steve Harris, will go out Easter monday at 18:30 and features the six-minute versions of the soundscapes.
I will be giving a talk about the Winnall Moors sound walk project for Cafe Culture on Tuesday 26th April at Eighteen71, Winchester. Doors open 18:30.
In memory of mam I have added her version of Ave Maria to my archive. This recording formed part of the soundtrack for the performance piece, '...and a sword shall pierce thy heart also'. Listen from here.
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Tuesday 5th April my mother died. Mam's voice and life have featured in a number of my sound works and installations: e.g. Soliloquy n.2; Duet for Vinyl; Bellevue and Audrey Please Knock (The title Audrey Please Knock was taken from a note she had pinned to her front door: Audrey collected her 'paper money').
Mam actually took part in an early performance work (and a sword...)and several photographic & film works.
Once interviewed by Tim Marlow about her participation in my photographic piece for the Mother's exhibition at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (both Tim's and my mother's first interview for BBC Radio 4), she described the experience as 'better than bingo': this was no faint praise, she loved bingo.
Eyes down mam.
The first soundscape in a series of 7 for BBC Radio Solent has been completed. The soundscape comes from Hengistbury Head in Dorset. There will be two versions: 2 minutes for radio broadcast and 6 mins for BBC online. I will also be uploading some of the soundscapes and sources to my account on Soundcloud.
A 60 second version of resistance 4 is included on the CD (Un) Pleasent Over Drones, which is free to visitors at the forthcoming Resound festival, Falmouth, 2011. Details and a downloadable mp3 version of the CD available here: Resound
I have now dicovered the reason some mp3 files failed to be found in the latest version of Safari. I am updating those files which need to be replaced. The early sound works, Bellevue, Longwave and Horizon are now found.
I have been commissioned by BBC Radio Solent, to produce a series of southern soundscapes made from locations suggested by listeners. The call for locations was first broadcast on 04.03.11 on the Julian Clegg show.
Interest in the Winnall Moors project grows. I just completed an interview for BBC Radio 4's Farming Today, to be broadcast on Friday 11/02/11. Doing an interview with Mike Powell, broadcast this Sunday on BBC Radio Solent, Radio Surrey & Radio Sussex: Podcast. The project also features on BBC Hampshire Online.
A new soundwork based on recordings made in Norfolk this summer: listen
In March 2010, I began work on a sound walk project funded by Hampshire Wildlife Trust(HWT). Over the period of a year I will be recording sounds in the HWT reserve at Winnall Moors, Winchester, UK. A blog documenting the project in images and sounds, is available here: www.winnallmoorssoundwalk.wordpress
As part of some R&D by the artist Yvon Bonenfant (University of Winchester), I was commissioned to produce a 'tactile' score in response to the Plague Mass by Diamanda Galas. The resulting score will be translated back into sound by the composer Will Edmondes. Pages from the graphic score can be found in the present: paper section of this website.
The silence returned vinyl editions continues in spite of one silence being lost in the post. The last two 7" records were posted from Stiffkey, Norfolk & Longmoor Lane in Fazakerley, Liverpool.