The link above is to a short sound piece I made using a small amount of the material I recorded and performed at Greenham Common. I had to make a 3 min piece of work to accompany an application for a Royal Scottish Academy Residency, and there is an arts centre in the Western Isles that is interested in hosting an artist whose work is relevant to one of their themes for next year ie. Archaeology , so I thought I would also put a link to this work on soundcloud and include it in my a-n blog. I hope the link works! Now, so far the sound work doesn’t really show much evidence of collaboration. Lynn and I had a discussion about when we should meet with Lucy and we had differing opinions about this so I am to make some notes about what such a meeting could/might achieve and we are to discuss it again. We also discussed what kind of piece we would make from the sound I have recorded at Greenham and the films that Lynn has shot so far. We have decided to make a film lasting about 15 mins which will try to convey some of the layers of history and archaeology of the Common, and see how the sound and images can play off against oneanother in a kind of dialogue. Maybe the two of us as collaborators can’t always agree verbally but strangely, the work usually brings the best out of both of us. Maybe collaboration is not always about words, but about communicating through the artistic material that we have made up till the point of editing, and then the dialogue comes when the editing really starts and the material takes over from the two individual people…even though they previously thought they were collaborating!
Lucy has become rather sidelined in this I feel, unfortunately. I meet with her but so far we three haven’t met together at all. I will work out how to tackle this for the best.
The sound piece is made up of speaking, singing, “playing” as instruments some of the remains of the airbase fuel station known as Pol21, recordings of the sounds of the Common (lots of planes fly overhead), and an attempt to convey the depths beneath the surface..a stone is dropped into the rusty mouth of a metal fixture shown in the last couple of posts. There is no added reverb or anything, all the sounds are just as recorded on Greenham Common and all were recorded on site. More soon. I will start a bigger sound edit very soon.
