Starling Broadcast is an electroacoustic sound art piece combining bird song with digital synthesis and improvised manipulation.
Field recordings, made over three subsequent dusk evenings in late November 2018, capture the sound of starlings roosting beneath Folkestone Harbour’s 1930s swing bridge.
El Dorado is a triptych of soundscapes that combine original music and field recordings capturing the unique sounds and biodiversity of Folkestone Warren: a designated local nature reserve (LNR) and site of special scientific interest (SSSI).
“The Warren has been termed the El Dorado and the “terra felix” of the entomologists. And not without reason.”
– Rambles Around Folkestone by “Felix”, 1913
The field recordings were made along three routes, and over three consecutive mornings in the first week of July 2018, between 4am and 7am, during the dawn chorus when the avian inhabitants of The Warren are at their most vocal.
Continue reading Folkestone’s El Dorado: An auditory ramble through The WarrenHouse of Easement is a site-specific sound installation of Tudor style music specially composed in response to the ‘mock-Tudor’ public toilets at Pleydell Gardens, Folkestone.