AQUEDUCT 1 - Piped Music
the first part of a series of sonic responses derived from an artist residency with the Elan Links project in Wales.

A geopoetic concept piece.
As well as the water that flows through the 70 mile pipeline from the Elan Valley in the Welsh uplands to the English city of Birmingham, this piece expresses an idea of a two-way sharing - or flow - of watery sonic ambiences.
Echoes, voices, field recordings, temporal reverberations. Reciprocities.
Atmospherics and hydrospherics of the counterflows.
Rural and urban, and in-between.
Sound art and acoustic ecology.

Derived from soundtracks to experimental videosonic works presented at the 'Ten Acres of Sound' festival in Stirchley, Birmingham. Sept-Oct 2020
Six connected 5min works formed an installation curated by Artefact Projects.
https://www.tenacresofsound.com/antony-lyons

Sonic material was recorded in Elan Valley (Wales), Cannon Hill Park (Birmingham) & water pipeline locations in-between. Some additional material included from underground water pipelines in Bristol (recorded for a recent project titled 'Hydrocitizenship').

Some original choral contribution is from a live performance of:
'The Valley of Nantgwyllt', 
Sung by Rhayader Young Farmers Club Cast Members
written by Peter Cox
Directed by Peter Cox & Kerena Pugh
Composer & Musical Director, Bob Walters
Piano accompanist, Eleri Davies

AQUEDUCT 1

Professor Mark Crispin Miller joins the podcast to discuss the propaganda that has been used to opportunistically sell certain agendas to the public in the Covid era, just as in past crises of similar scale. Originally published on 09/03/21.

Unlimited Hangout

Propaganda in the Covid Era with Mark Crispin Miller

08 Del Tritone respiro

I Want to be a Seaside Tractor

original song by orso jesenska taken from the album « effacer la mer ».
vocals by kate stables, caroline gabard and thomas jean henri
banjo, guitar, twelve strings and wurlitzer by kate stables, sean o’hagan and thomas jean henri.
recorded between paris, saint-nazaire, london and brussels.
mixed by ash workman at premises studio in london.

thanks to orso jesenska for his music.
www.facebook.com/Orso-Jesensk

effacer la mer

Lullabies for Those Who Will Never Wake Again; Extinction Songs

Lullabies for Those Who Will Never Wake Again (chorus only for collaberation purposes)

Ants In a Log

Goodbye Little Bird

The Consequences

Nocturnal Insights uses recordings of crepuscular and nocturnal wildlife across locations in Hertfordshire, Birmingham and Dorset in order to document habits and patterns in the behaviour of nocturnal wildlife in the UK and to capture sounds that are usually unheard throughout the night. Through an artistic representation of the recorded sounds, the piece takes the listener on a journey through soundscapes of the night organised according to the time at which they were recorded. It evokes a sense of darkness, loneliness and at times, a melancholic state, reflecting the effects of extinction, light pollution and the man-made world on the natural environment and ecosystem. Be transported to a sonic world of Daubenton, Pipistrelle and rare Greater Horseshoe bats using echolocation to hunt at dusk and into the night, sika deer calling out into a vast landscape in complete darkness and the rhythmic behaviour of crickets and tawny owls.

Commissioned for Land Lines at The University of Leeds.

Nocturnal Insights - Land Lines Commission

NOVA
Formed in 2005 by Antony Lyons, the ways of working are experimental and collaborative. Many NOVA projects respond to ecological and marginal landscapes and explore intricate webs of relationships between people and place.
This 'NOVA formula' space on Soundcloud will feature sonic experiments, works-in-progress, soundtracks and symphonic ambient works.

AQUEDUCT 1

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