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field-recording of sound-enhanced poetry & film-poem exhibition in Leicester, England

vocals: Mark Goodwin & various exhibition contributors ... & one passing member of the public ...
gallery-technician-at-work sounds: Chris Tyre
binaural recording & editing: Mark Goodwin
photo: Nikki Clayton & Mark Goodwin - the screenshot (in the photo) is from Dave Bonta's film-poem 'Note to Self"

recording equipment courtesy of Arts Council England Grants for the arts

Cube Gallery provided by Phoenix Arts, Leicester

such awesome sound-enhanced poetry, very peculiar, love it.

I love that you are doing this—encouraging visitors to mix and match.

a fascinating piece with lots of inspiration for creativity. Love the different sonic atmospheres. Thank you

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field-recording of sound-enhanced poetry & film-poem exhibition in Leicester, England, April 2014

this is a binaural recording, so for best results please listen through headphones ...

vocals: Mark Goodwin & various exhibition contributors ... & one passing member of the public ...
gallery-technician-at-work sounds: Chris Tyrer 
binaural recording & editing: Mark Goodwin
photo: Nikki Clayton & Mark Goodwin - the screenshot (in the photo) is from Dave Bonta's film-poem 'Note to Self"

recording equipment courtesy of Arts Council England Grants for the arts

Cube Gallery provided by Phoenix Arts, Leicester

'Poems, Places & Soundscapes' is an international exhibition of digitally produced sound-&-poetry focusing on place and soundscape, installed in Leicester’s Cube Gallery (part of The Phoenix arts complex) from Monday 7 April to Friday 25 April 2014. Poet Mark Goodwin and Brian Lewis (of Longbarrow Press) bring together and present a range of vivid, immersive sound-enhanced poetry made through various poet, musician and sound-designer collaborations, as well as by individual poet-sound-artists. The exhibition also includes a selection of ‘place-entranced’ film-poems.

Information about contributors, an interview with curator Mark Goodwin, and photos can be found here: http://poemsplacessoundscapes.wordpress.com/

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http://longbarrowpress.com/

http://phoenix.org.uk/

Poems, Places & Soundscapes Cubed - exhibition explored (binaural)

Live recording of '7 Tides', at the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate, part of Hugs Bison's B-Side the Seaside Tour, supported by Sound and Music. Recording by Ian Thompson.

7 Tides

1234bier

A new commission from Attenborough Arts Centre to explore the songs of endangered birds, using Indian classical, traditional and folk music, field recordings, printmaking and video to visualise birdsong as part of a concert on Friday 22 April 2016. With support from Geoff Sample and The Wildlife Sound Recording Society. More info: https://lucystevens.co.uk/2016/03/23/the-red-species-list/

The Red Species List

Dawn chorus captured at Cossington Meadows in Leicester on 24 June 2017 between 4am - 5am. Edited down to under 2 minutes. Features thrushes, warblers and tits (and unfortunately a road nearby!)

Dawn Chorus - Cossington Meadows, 2017

"Talk in a bit" - debut album by Hannah Silva.
OUT ON 9 MAY 2018 - Human Kind Records.
LP 180g / CD / DD
Pre-order starting on 19th of March 2018
Album release concert at CAFE OTO, London. 9th May 2018. 

“The vocal acrobatics of musician and writer Hannah Silva test the physical limits of language” The Wire

“She uses techniques like cut-up and collage, sound poetry and physical theatre to create something that’s unique but nods to older forms like shamanism, pre-religious ceremonies, Dadaism, and the kind of games that children play with language” Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3
 
TALK IN A BIT is the debut record by Hannah Silva, a poet known for her innovative and virtuosic vocal performances. Made during a week of improvisation at the beautiful La Sauna Recording Studio on Lake Varese, Silva’s lyrical tapestries are woven together with the acrobatic drummery of Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius, the electro-acustic virtuosity of Italian composer Luca Martegani and the noise distortions of Swiss cellist Zeno Gabaglio. The result is a truly original sound, experimental yet accessible: a marriage of music and words, atmospheres and grooves, technology and grit. Moving from rhythmic cacophony to lyrics inscribed on a breath: “Your air is my suitcase, I fill you with the sounds that hang behind, the fingertips that touch, only to leave no marks in the air between us”.

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All tracks written and performed by Hannah Silva
Drums, beats and percussions: Julian Sartorius
Electronics: Luca Xelius Martegani
Electric five strings cello: Zeno Gabaglio
Additional production by Luca Xelius Martegani
Recorded and Mixed by Enrico Mangione - La Sauna New Recording Studio, Varese (I)
Mastering: Henning Schmitz (member of Kraftwerk) at X Punkte 1 Studio, Köln (D) 
Artwork: Alfio Mazzei
Project curated by Alan Alpenfelt
HK001
(P) & (C) Human Kind Records 2018

Hannah Silva - Cancero

Talk in a bit

Talking to silence - part 1

Hannah Silva - Talking To Silence part 1

This piece evolved from sound hunting around Lake Buttermere and Crummock Water in the Lake District. A sonic topography of live manipulation of elemental objects from the landscape and its industries, field recordings, memories and found stories. The performance was recorded at NoizeMaschin! #15 at the Amersham Arms, New Cross, London.

Noizemaschin!! London #15

Tarn

"Talk in a bit" - debut album by Hannah Silva.
OUT ON 9 MAY 2018 - Human Kind Records.
LP 180g / CD / DD
Buy here ---> https://humankindrecords.bandcamp.com
Album release concert at CAFE OTO, London. 9th May 2018.

“The vocal acrobatics of musician and writer Hannah Silva test the physical limits of language” The Wire

“She uses techniques like cut-up and collage, sound poetry and physical theatre to create something that’s unique but nods to older forms like shamanism, pre-religious ceremonies, Dadaism, and the kind of games that children play with language” Ian McMillan, The Verb, BBC Radio 3

TALK IN A BIT is the debut record by Hannah Silva, a poet known for her innovative and virtuosic vocal performances. Made during a week of improvisation at the beautiful La Sauna Recording Studio on Lake Varese, Silva’s lyrical tapestries are woven together with the acrobatic drummery of Swiss percussionist Julian Sartorius, the electro-acustic virtuosity of Italian composer Luca Martegani and the noise distortions of Swiss cellist Zeno Gabaglio. The result is a truly original sound, experimental yet accessible: a marriage of music and words, atmospheres and grooves, technology and grit. Moving from rhythmic cacophony to lyrics inscribed on a breath: “Your air is my suitcase, I fill you with the sounds that hang behind, the fingertips that touch, only to leave no marks in the air between us”.

---------
All tracks written and performed by Hannah Silva
Drums, beats and percussions: Julian Sartorius
Electronics: Luca Xelius Martegani
Electric five strings cello: Zeno Gabaglio
Additional production by Luca Xelius Martegani
Recorded and Mixed by Enrico Mangione - La Sauna New Recording Studio, Varese (I)
Mastering: Henning Schmitz (member of Kraftwerk) at X Punkte 1 Studio, Köln (D) 
Artwork: Alfio Mazzei
Project curated by Alan Alpenfelt
HK001
(P) & (C) Human Kind Records 2018

Pain

Hannah Silva - Pain

This a sound poem I created from an audio sent to me by Julia Thomas, an artist with whom I've been collaborating. I uploaded onto AcidPro and chopped and mixed and added sound effects. The piece is part of our on-going collaboration about the effects of the unspoken and how one can 'speak' without telling. Julia also created some pieces using my voice. 

Anna Speaks

Another Sound Poem I created as part of my collaboration with artist Julia Thomas. We've been looking at the effects of not speaking our stories and how we can speak without telling. I used snippets of a poem I had been working on and uploaded some whalesongs as they seemed to speak to me viscerally even though I didn't 'understand' them. Also they are of the sea, which reminded me of slave ships and the horrors in the guts of those ships, all mingling with my own 'unspoken.' I used a flask to make the fog horn (used to hear it on the Mississippi River when I lived in New Orleans). And the waves, a release, my little boy whispering 'quiet mammy' more as an instruction to be still rather than to be silent.

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