The Larks is a response to the World War 1 Centenary Commemorations from 2014-2018 and the poem 'In Flanders Fields' by John McRae.

The Larks 2014-2018

Joyce Makwenda, writer, filmmaker, researcher, lecturer and women's rights activist; known for her book, film and TV series "Zimbabwe Township Music", 2 Oct (39:20)
Joyce Makwenda, from the Harare township of Mbare, is a writer, filmmaker and women's rights activist. This is a brief interview with an artist who has much to say and many stories to tell. She's widely known for her book, film and TV series "Zimbabwe Township Music".

The inspiring enthusiasm that can be heard here in the voice of Joyce Makwenda in this short piece of audio is definitely part of what made me choose it to mix with my instrumental piece, 'Lost Horizon'. 
I felt this composition would lend an apt and atmospheric  backdrop to her important words because Joyce is talking about the Townships and their stories and by doing so is bringing them to a new audience.

Joyce Makwenda The Global Village & Lost Horizon By Patricia Walsh Mix 2014

Party Line was part of a Vox Novus 60x60 concert event at the Harris Museum & Art Gallery on International Women's Day 2013.

Party Line

Call back yesterday...yearn to.  Dennis Potter

Curtain Call was heard at EDAU (Electronic Digital Art Unit) at UCLan in a UK premiere 60x60 sound event 2012. 

Curtain Call

"There are those who believe in logic and those who take things on faith."

Spirit Level

What a beautiful morning!
The progress of a day, a memory, a mood, a feeling, a lifetime.

Speaking Tube

Tipperary Days

Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them,
Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare;
Fighting-fit and mirth-mad, music in the feet of them,
Swinging on to glory and the wrath out there.
Laughing by and chaffing by, frolic in the smiles of them,
On the road, the white road, all the afternoon;
Strangers in a strange land, miles and miles and miles of them,
Battle-bound and heart-high, and singing this tune:

It's a long way to Tipperary,
It's a long way to go;
It's a long way to Tipperary,
And the sweetest girl I know.
Good-bye, Piccadilly,
Farewell, Leicester Square:
It's a long, long way to Tipperary,
But my heart's right there.

"Come, Yvonne and Juliette! Come, Mimi, and cheer for them!
Throw them flowers and kisses as they pass you by.
Aren't they the lovely lads! Haven't you a tear for them
Going out so gallantly to dare and die?
What is it they're singing so? Some high hymn of Motherland?
Some immortal chanson of their Faith and King?
'Marseillaise' or 'Brabanc,on', anthem of that other land,
Dears, let us remember it, that song they sing:

"C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee',
C'est un chemin long, c'est vrai;
C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee',
Et la belle fille qu'je connais.
Bonjour, Peekadeely!
Au revoir, Lestaire Squaire!
C'est un chemin long 'to Tepararee',
Mais mon coeur 'ees zaire'."

The gallant old "Contemptibles"! There isn't much remains of them,
So full of fun and fitness, and a-singing in their pride;
For some are cold as clabber and the corby picks the brains of them,
And some are back in Blighty, and a-wishing they had died.
And yet it seems but yesterday, that great, glad sight of them,
Swinging on to battle as the sky grew black and black;
But oh their glee and glory, and the great, grim fight of them! --
Just whistle Tipperary and it all comes back:

It's a long way to Tipperary
(Which means "'ome" anywhere);
It's a long way to Tipperary
(And the things wot make you care).
Good-bye, Piccadilly
('Ow I 'opes my folks is well);
It's a long, long way to Tipperary --
('R! Ain't War just 'ell?)

Robert W Service

Rise On The Whistle The Somme Remix 2016

'The 53rd Welsh Division served with distinction in North West Europe, 1944-45, however it is mostly forgotten and sidelined.  Many histories omit mention of it completely, or relegate them down to poorly cited and sourced footnotes.  However the Division ultimately earned several hard earned (and fitting) nicknames.  The British called them 'Monty's Darlings', as they succeeded in every task they were given.' http://53rdwelshdiv.webs.com/the53rdwelshdivision.htm

Burn Wrap Send

'Einen Augenblick' the title translates as 'one moment' and the work was commissioned as part of Harris Flights/ In Certain Places Project, 2013.  The Harris Museum and Art Gallery houses a World War I roll of honour, the fallen of Preston, and the facade of the Harris  building is overlooked by the First World War, war memorial, the 'Preston Cenotaph, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert-Scott. 

The sound-work fully occupied and highlighted the open expansive space of the public gathering places situated between the Harris Museum, the Flights (steps) themselves and the war memorial.

'Einen Augenblick' relates to both World Wars and the important and inherent sacrifices of these. It hopefully casts a light too on those of the 53rd Welsh Division who were a vital part of military strategies from 1944 onward.  Operation Overlord, the Battle of Normandy, the Ardennes, the Falaise Pocket, Battle of the Bulge and Battle of the Reichswald, the liberation of s'Hertogenbosch, are some campaigns of the second World War where the 53 Welsh Division deserve more historical recognition. 

Men of the 53rd Welsh Division themselves recognised another constant, yet similiarly unsung, World War 2 presence in the form of the 51st Highland Division, the former noting the plethora of HD insignia signs, with skull and crossbone warnings added, that were left in wake of their ongoing unstoppable advance.

Further information;
53 (Welsh) Infantry Division:
'After several years of training, the 53rd (Welsh) Division landed in Normandy on 28 June 1944, the second last British infantry division to land and was placed under command of XII Corps, defending the Odon Valley position.[24] The division was involved in much fighting in this area, with the 158th Brigade detached to fight with the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division in the Second Battle of the Odon (Operation Greenline) before Operation Goodwood in mid-July. In August it began to push beyond the Odon and crossed the river Orne, helping to close the Falaise Pocket. It was during this fighting that Acting Captain Tasker Watkins, Officer Commanding (OC) B Company of the 1/5th Battalion, Welch Regiment was awarded the Victoria Cross, the first and only to be awarded to the regiment and division during the war, as well as the only Welshman of the British Army during the Second World War to be awarded the VC.[25]'
Advancing into the Netherlands, 53rd (Welsh) Division liberated the city of 's-Hertogenbosch in four days of heavy fighting from 24 October'.  
A memorial stands to thank and remember the division in the city, see track image above.
Links
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/94/a7803894.shtml
http://incertainplaces.org
Image:  Memorial to 53 Welsh Division in 's-Hertogenbosch, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:53rd_Welsh_Division_Memorial.JPG 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/53rd_(Welsh)_Infantry_Division
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Overlord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_51st_(Highland)_Infantry_Division_(World_War_II)

Various

Einen Augenblick

Patricia Walsh is a multi-media artist creating reflective and atmospheric sound works, video works and photography.   Selected video works by Patricia Walsh have been screened nationwide on the BBC's Big Screens network throughout the UK.   

She has curated a number of Audio Art events, including Circuit Bridges sound event at EDAU and at the Media Factory, Uclan, Preston.  Artists from the USA, Britain and Europe were brought together in a collaborative sound presentation which toured to New York, 2015.

Her sound piece Einen Augenblick was presented as part of the Harris Flights Project.  A forthcoming book, by Elaine Speight and Charles Quick, will detail all of the artists who have taken part in the, In Certain Places project over the last ten years. 

She is a member of Robert Voisey's Vox Novus 60x60 and also a member of  Soundnetwork.  

FlashBack, sound work, was selected as part of the 60x60 International Mix 2011 and was recently heard at The Sheldon, St Louis, Missouri.

DUST was selected as part of Sonic Vigil V Festival, St. Fin Barre Cathedral, Ireland in 2010 and it was also aired at Bureau Gallery, Manchester, 2011.

ShadowPlay appears on the Audio CD Soundtrack For A Mersey Tunnel by Alan Dunn in an edition of 433, February 2008. A limited edition compilation inspired by the 2'33" minutes spent under the River Mersey on the 433 bus, featuring new soundworks recorded in the Mersey Tunnels and their surrounds, Liverpool, UK. 

UNDERCOVER was seen and heard at the Galapagos Club, Brooklyn, New York 2008. Choreography by Pascal Rekoert.

The sound work Vanishing Act is included in Soundnetwork's 'Sound Report II MADEUP' CD, 2008, which was specially selected and curated by Daniel Barratt.

A recent photographic exhibition Faith, Hope and Charity Shops was shown on an extended run at the Adelphi Gallery, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.

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