Diary entry 6.6.21, 'Be Thou My Vision on the Road'

Multi-tracked violin, home recordings created, performed and recorded by Alison Blunt.

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The traditional melody, 'Slane' is an old Irish folk tune associated with the ballad "With My Love on the Road" in Patrick W. Joyce's Old Irish Folk Music and Songs (1909). It became a hymn tune when it was arranged by David Evans (PHH 285) and set to the Irish hymn "Be Thou My Vision."

The hymn lyrics are believed to have been written by the sixth century Irish poet, Dallán Forgaill. Mary Elizabeth Byrne, M.A. (July 2, 1880 – January 19, 1931) translated the Old Irish Hymn, "Bí Thusa 'mo Shúile," into English as "Be Thou My Vision" in 1905.

The number of verses and some of the phrases differ in various sources.
 
Be thou my vision, O Lord of my heart,
naught be all else to me save that thou art;
thou my best thought in the day and the night,
waking or sleeping, thy presence my light.

Be thou my wisdom, be thou my true word,
I ever with thee and thou with me Lord;
thou my great Father, and I thy true heir;
thou in me dwelling, and I in thy care.

Be thou my breastplate, my sword for the fight,
be thou my armour, and be thou my might,
thou my soul's shelter, and thou my strong tow'r,
raise thou me heav'nward, O Pow'r of my pow'r.

Riches I need not, nor all the world's praise,
thou mine inheritance through all my days;
thou, and thou only, the first in my heart,
high King of heaven, my treasure thou art!

True light of heaven, when battle is done,
grant heaven's joy to me, O bright heav'n's sun;
Christ of my own heart, whatever befall,
still be thou my vision, O Ruler of all.

Be Thou My Vision on the Road

This track is one of the last for Lore of the Wild the full track list can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/loreofthewild
I have adjusted the sound so that the music is louder against the voice.
please go to the link to listen to the tracks.
Lore of the Wild is an audio storywalk in which you will be guided by wild creatures including crows, foxes, squirrels and even the wind, on a transformative journey around Lesnes Abbey Woods in South East London, UK. Listen on location or in another and be taken on a magical adventure. You can download our beautiful accompanying map from the link below.

Created for adults (recommend age 12+)

Illustrations by Melanie Smith
Sound Design by Hannah Marshall

Featuring the voices of Charlie Folorunsho, Harriet Kershaw, Bernadette Russell, Natasha Magigi and Thierry Spall.

Co-commissioned by Metal and London Borough of Bexley for Estuary 2021

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Seven - vln, vcl

this is an extract of our 1st concert on saturday the 10th of May which was part of the Tuning Out tour http://www.hannahmarshall.net/Hannah_Marshall/TUNING_OUT.html

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'England Expects' is an installation and collaboration between Australian visual artist Allan Giddy and English sound artist Alison Blunt. 

This archival recording incorporates the installation's sound aspects of amplified water and air, the day's BBC shipping forecast, the speaker sound and the music composed, performed and recorded by Blunt which was inspired by the title theme 'England Expects' ["...that every man will do his duty"].

First platform - TÖNE Festival, Kent, UKhttps://julielouisebacon.com/portfolio/tone/ Quote, 'Leaving the Dockyard by a side-door opening in the high wall that surrounds the space, the audience found themselves on Gun Wharf, greeted by Allan Giddy’s solar-powered sound work England Expects, a collaboration with musician Alison Blunt. With the rise and fall or the river, fishing lines that Giddy had set in the water directed compositions that interspersed sampled sound recordings from the area, fragments of composition, and excerpts from the fishing forecast.'

Second platform - Ngāmotu/New Plymouth. 

http://allangiddy.org/?p=738
www.alisonblunt.com

England Expects - archival recording 17.6.14

After the album Calques recorded live during a concert, Novembre returns with Encore, a double studio album,
the result of a long maturation in terms of form, composition and playing. As they have been doing for more than ten years, Romain Clerc Renaud and Antonin Tri Hoang have constructed a complex poetic form, made up of multiple back-and forths between simple and gentle themes (Encore, Petit Matelot) or very fast ones (LetCo, Klaxon); between very short pieces (Miniatures) and large developments (Continuum). Everything is arranged by the play of contrasts and resonances: a piece is interrupted to be continued later (Please wait), a motif is metamorphosed by dint of repetition (Encore), a piece is played again, but as quickly as possible (Letco Flash). The second CD of the album illustrates another side of the art of montage. Marc Baron recorded Novembre while they were working on Encore, using the most varied materials and techniques (tape recorder, hydrophone, boom box, spring, tape loops). With this harvest he has constructed an electroacoustic piece that diverts, amplifies and transforms the music of Novembre.

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CD1

Compositions by Romain Clerc-Renaud and Antonin- Tri Hoang
Recording: Antony - July 2021
Engineering and mixing: Erwan Boulay
Mastering: Pierre Luzy, Music Unit

CD2
Electro-acoustic piece by Marc Baron, produced in the studio in the summer 2018 from recordings of the band Novembre.
Design: Galilée Al Rifai

UMFR-CD42 - Novembre Encore "Onii - San"

Pat Thomas returns to OTOROKU for his fourth collection of solo piano improvisations, this time recorded in a studio setting at London’s Fish Factory.

ROKU040 - "The Oud Of Ziryab" from Pat Thomas "The Solar Model of Ibn Al-Shatir"

A Glitchy Dub tune featuring the soaring violin of Alison Blunt

Dub Ripples - Drew Id Featuring Alison Blunt

NYC based saxophonist Ingrid Laubrock, London pianist Veryan Weston and cellist Hannah Marshall come together to mutate chamber music with fluent virtuosity. At once expansive and fleeting, the trio interweave and interject each at a dizzying pace, with Weston finding himself met around every corner by the two younger players. 

Ingrid Laubrock / saxophone

Veryan Weston / piano

Hannah Marshall / cello

Recorded live at Cafe OTO on Thursday 9th October by Mark Jasper. Mixed by John Chantler. Mastered by Andreas [LUPO] Lubich at Calyx, Berlin. 

https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/haste-broad-margin-dl/

DS023 Haste - A Broad Margin

Korhan Erel - Electronics; Elena Margarita Kakaliagou - French Horn; Jonas Kocher - Accordion ; Hannah Marshall - Cello; Dirk Marwedel - Extended Saxophone; Theo Nabicht - Contrabass Clarinet ; Ulrich Philipp - Double Bass; Ernesto Rodrigues - Viola; Wolfgang Schliemann - Percussion; Nicolas Souchal - Trumpet

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Path 2. Sunday afternoon

Recorded At – Visconti Studio, Kingston, London
Mixed At – Sansom Studios, Birmingham

Cello – Hannah Marshall
Double Bass – John Edwards
Engineer [Recording] – Ebby Acquah
Flute – Neil Metcalfe
Guitar – Philip Gibbs
Marimba, Vibraphone, Percussion – Trevor Tayor*
Mixed By – Olly Sansom
Photography By [Photos] – Bryan Styles
Soprano Saxophone, Alto Saxophone, Clarinet, Alto Flute, Tin Whistle [Penny Whistle] – Paul Dunmall
Viola, Violin – Theo May
Violin – Alison Blunt, Sarah Farmer

Track 1: Whatever it was, Joy arrived

Excerpts and recordings from projects and concerts, theatre music, ambient tracks, soundscapes, sound for exhibitions, improvised, composition, for films, noisy left-overs, tracks that I never finished.

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