Sound montage made from the sounds of Colchester. For this piece of work I dug into my archive of sounds and found a folder of field recordings I made in Colchester for the Essex County Council project Genius Loci in 2009. I made small and micro edits of these unprocessed field recordings and arranged them in to awkward rhythms and phrases, with a nod to the aesthetics of the ‘Clicks and Cuts’ compilations on Mille Plateaux label in the early 2000s.

Colchester 2009 (Montage)

Stuart’s work is inspired by location and the people, experiences and objects he encounters there. 

He is particularly interested in sounds that are associated with place, overlooked and overheard noises of the everyday and highlighting the auditory as a defining factor in how we experience a particular environment. 
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His recordings of people, their activities, experiences and environs have contributed to art installations, phone apps, archival records, dance performances, public consultation events, musical compositions, a computer game, a eulogy and sound tracks to short films.

New tracks tagged #Micro Edits