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Idling ships upon the bay, moving windsurfers upon the bay, my travelling companion and good friend Al laying in the grass making some art and chatting to the walkers on the path, restarting the recording as there was a hum, a hiking couple, hiking man craning his neck to have a look from 200m away, I’m suddenly self conscious about my choice of bright jumper in an overcast scene, must buy green, grasses are my favourite plant as they evoke summer, a wildness and understated strength and resilience.

Chitter chatter in the hillside habitat, two hikers descending the path next to where I am sat, a young couple in urban gear, a coach coming down the lane at the top of the hill, the steely blue of Weymouth Bay scratched by the wake of a small fishing boat, a man with binoculars, in this unfamiliar place I’m mostly noticing surface activities and fixtures and not engaged with or thinking about deeper considerations, accepting it more on face value than underlying narratives or other social contexts, which is how we might look at a painting, for its composition, materials or techniques, but of course it was made within, or maybe influenced by the socio-economic or political climate at the time, the coach returning back up the lane, a ship starting its engine, Portland.

The sighting of one bird by one person at one place at one time with millions of years of evolution of different strands and billions of potential probabilities happen, and then it was gone in a second, a man noticing that I have headphones on, a beam of sunlight on the water, the active society of birds,  a hiking party some of whom are not wearing blue, some fast 4/4 beats (135bpm) from  car on the lane, more light making its way through the clouds and defining a difference between the sky and there sea, anxiously waiting tpfor the hour signal from my friend. 

Birds identified are Skylark, Wren, Meadow Pipit, Greenfinch, Pheasant, Blackbird, Siskin, Long Tailed Tit, Goldcrest, Dunnock, Pied Wagtail, Cetti's warbler, Robin, Linnet and Goldfinch.

Weymouth Bay from the downs above Osmington Mills - 11th October 2025 (excerpt)

This recording is the result of ten creative participants - musicians, artists, and other creatives - who came along to the Constable Experimental Improvisational Soundscape Orchestra workshop led by Kelly Ann Buckley (K-A-B), to explore the grounds of Flatford Mill, the landscape that inspired so much of Constable’s work. Together, the group connected with the soundscape through a series of exercises that included deep listening, elements of graphic score writing, gathering natural ‘instruments’ from the land, and other activities that encouraged locking in with the environment and with each other. At the end of the session the group interpreted their findings, using a mix of their unconventional ‘found’ instruments and conventional ones. The piece was fully improvised, with no rehearsal before the performance. 

Many thanks to National Trust Flatford for supporting this project by providing The Granary building for these workshops.

K-A-B Experimental Soundscape Orchestra - 23rd August 2025

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Hoppipolla (The Tape Variations)

My latest track "Wholesome" inspired by the Rnb remixes of the early 00's and the likes of 10°Below & Club Asylum. I wanted to make a modern, soulful 2step vocal track. I made the instrumental and then wrote the lyrics and used AI to bring them to life. Its a painful process, but a fun one for a producer to test out. The final vocal line is a patchwork of cutting and pasting a tonne of different takes to get it to sound how I wanted it to.

Wholesome

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As part of the Constable Ambisonic project I want to understand how we perceive the landscape, and what did Constable and his contemporaries bring to our understanding of the natural world, and who else has contributed to the language used and ideals we hold in regard to perception of landscape. Here I talk to artist and artist and broadcaster Wendy Bailey to discuss the project more broadly.

Constable Ambisonic - Stuart Bowditch in conversation with Wendy Bailey

https://newriverstudios.com/199radio/listen/

http://wearehappened.com

http://www.stuartbowditch.co.uk

https://www.whitenoises.co.uk

28/11/17 - We Are Happened w/ Stuart Bowditch & Gregory White

The Nurse Who Loved Me 

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