Weekend in #Margate for the #coastofbohemia exhibition with Caroline Streatfield and Kristin Rawcliffe who did a wonderful job of organising. Big thanks to the ever-generous @peterdriver.bsky.social for carting my gear from Reading and back! Lovely to meet so many interesting and talented artists.
If you're in Reading today, coastofbohemia.art is at Blakes Lock Museum 11-6. Happy with how the sound work adds movement to the space, mingling with the honks of geese and roar of the weir, supporting artworks by friends old and new including @peterdriver.bsky.social. #soundart #fieldrecording
Winds, tides, currents, forces. Skeletal structures buffeted and breaking. Waves reaching the end of their journey. Then, listening beneath the surface, the cavernous expanse of it all. Very honoured to be offering ‘break,’ a sound work for The Coast of Bohemia exhibition coastofbohemia.art
26 Mixes for Cash [spent on Bandcamp downloads] Available here: www.anoisysilence.com/mixes #supportartists
A gentler way to welcome spring: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...
"with no noisy bump, I know that the seabed here must be more than nine meters below me. I adjust the cables so that they hang securely apart at a distance, set levels and settle into listening." www.anoisysilence.com/post/swanage... #contemplativelistening #mindfulness #soundart #fieldrecording
I felt slightly out of place in Mayfair, ringing the doorbell of Eskenazi in a hoodie, puffer and rucksack, but I was welcomed in and enjoyed spending half an hour with Li Huayi's beautiful, shimmering 'Trees and mountains on gold and silver' collection.
Vibrant colours, strong forms brimming with power and reference, combined beautifully with a soundtrack of jazz/dub/reggae. Just a bit weird hearing massive sound systems sound like a home hifi at a dinner party! Peter Doig at the Serpentine.
"...the inherent sonic qualities of its thin plastic shell randomly knocking against the immovable mass of the church, would likely always feel like a feeble imposition, rather than an honouring of its history and quiet authority." #fieldrecording #contemplation www.anoisysilence.com/post/soundin...
25 mixes to soundtrack [the whole of] your Saturday night: www.anoisysilence.com/mixes (or directly through www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...)
And this of my audio interface through a glass on my desk became a cover image: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...
As always, thank you to the artists and labels featured this month…
@steepgloss.bsky.social
@vivcorringham.bsky.social
@yoichikamimura.bsky.social
@manjaristic.bsky.social
@marc-namblard.bsky.social
@andrewweathers.bsky.social
A repeated light tapping of the way someone talks (listen for more info). New mix. Best enjoyed lying down: www.mixcloud.com/a_noisy_sile...
#contemplation #fieldrecording #ambientmusic #mindfulness
#contemplativephotography One of the many things I’ll keep with me from a beautifully playful retreat with friend and dharma teacher Susanne Olbrich last weekend.
A new offering, mixing sound[walk]scapes with ambient, experimental, field recording and improvisation. www.mixcloud.com/a_noi.../a-n... #mindfullistening
Rolling with distraction. A #soundwalk through BunkFest 2025 in #wallingford. New #contemplative #fieldrecording blog here: www.anoisysilence.com/post/bunkfes... #phonography #mindfulness #soundwalking
Where the video gives speed the #LOM #geophone adds power. Shortening a journey from Montparnasse to Saint Jean de Luz on @sncf-voyageurs.bsky.social #TGV
Taking a break from socials for a few weeks. I'll leave you with the sound of a metal groyne sounded by the waves and recorded by draping two hydrophones over it. Take care folks...
Creative live recording (singing into a font is a first!) for Sarah Lambert-Gates' work responding to #Cookham Abbey. Lovely to capture archeologist Lucy-Anne Taylor playing her replica bone flute from the site and work alongside Olga Dikajee. More info here: www.cookhamabbey.org.uk/event/river-...
Great buzz in the the studio this morning, recording voiceovers for Nature Nurture with Chris Mitchell, Emma, Fayez, Fern and Toby of Rabble Theatre. All sorts of wild animals were brought to life, including 'street' Hedgehogs, cockney Robins and a rather softly spoken Goldcrest.
Enjoyed the cool and shade of the woodlands at The Cowsey in Reading for our #wellbeing #soundwalk last Friday. A grounding meditation followed by a soundwalk using #fieldrecording to help us focus on the #soundscape and our presence in it. www.anoisysilence.com/soundwalks
Always a pleasure to work with Nature Nurture CIC this time at Reading Waterfest. The tent offered some very welcome shade for passersby who got stuck in to painting watery wildlife, while I invited visitors to test-out our #WebOfLifeQuest game.
A scorchingly hot, but thoroughly enjoyable visit to the little-known Kennet Island Wildlife Conservation Area in Reading and the [in]famous 'Shitty Ditch' with Elis Bentley and local history-buff David Turner.
Fascinating, enveloping, challenging performances last night, with sound being coaxed from objects and machines with real sensitivity to the space and their new partners-in-sound for the evening. #soundart
Sunlight exposes layers of watercolour that add depth to the shallows. The first silent washes of fish and dragonfly lay down a base coat on which blue tit, blackcap and foliage perch.
Thanks for clarifying. I must get me some buckeye - I'm not sure I do too sweet!
Thanks for your comment and share. Well, that's a learning for me today - 'buckeyes' from the horse-chestnut tree or does this have a different common name for you? Charlie and Lola - a favourite with our three when they were younger as well.
"There can grow a confidence in navigating our relationships silently... enjoying the depth of connection that can come when we do not reduce the world to words." New blog post: www.anoisysilence.com/post/winterb... #fieldrecording #contemplation #soundwalk #wallingforduk #mindfulness
Wood Street, Wallingford, UK
"I left the dustpan and handbrush where I had found it, recorded a further moment or two of stillness, before halting the recording to sit and type these rememberings into my phone..." www.anoisysilence.com/post/sweepin... #fieldrecording #contemplation #sweeping #mindfulness
