Installations

Yr Ogof Olaf / The Last Cave
Taith Sain / A Sound Journey

Rhan 1 o darn adrodd straeon newydd gan Ailsa Mair Hughes, fe rhan o'i prosiect Mapio Sain Ein 5 Milltir Sgwâr

Part 1 of new musical storytelling piece by Ailsa Mair Hughes, as part of her project Soundmapping Our 5 Square Miles

Mae'n daith sain fer, dwyieithog, lled-ryngweithiol gyda naratif, cerddoriaeth a seinwedd naturiol o bob rhan o Gymru. Byddai'n ddelfrydol gwrando arno yn y cyfnos – beth am fynd ag ef am dro lleuad llawn?

Developed with the fabulous mentorship of Lisa Schneidau Storyteller, this is a short, bilingual, semi-interactive sound journey, with narrative, music and natural soundscape from around Wales. Ideally listened to at dusk - why not take it on a full moon stroll?

Gallwch naill ai gerdded neu eistedd i wrando ar hyn – os eistedd, beth am gynnau cannwyll efallai a gwneud eich hun yn gyfforddus…
Dewch â'ch cyfnodolyn a'ch sgrifbinnau gyda chi!

You can either walk or sit to listen to this - if sitting, make yourself comfortable and perhaps light a candle….
Bring your journal and pens with you!

Mae'r darn hwn yn gyflwyniad i'r straeon a'r perfformiad a fydd yn dilyn yn rhannau dau a thri. Dewch â'ch cyfnodolyn a'ch sgrifbinnau gday chi i wrand! I glywed eich mapiau sain yn dod yn fyw , anfonwch nhw i wildnoteswales@icloud.com  erbyn Ebryll 12fed.

This piece serves as an introduction to the stories and performance that will follow in parts 2 and 3. To hear your soundmaps brought to life, send them to wildnoteswales@icloud.com by April 12th.

Diolch yn fawr i / Big thanks to :
Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru
Y Loteri Genedlaethol
Lisa Schneidau
Ben Porter
Badger Brown
Ashley Leung
Annie Suganami
Naomi & Sandra @Beyond the Border
Peter Stevenson
fin

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Dod yn fuan...
Yn Rhan 2... darganfyddwch pwy sydd wedi bod yn llunio'r siapau ar y waliau! {Ffilm & adrodd straeon}
Yn Rhan 3... Perfformiad Ailsa o'r Map Sain {Cerddoriaeth & ffilm}

Coming Soon…
In Part 2… Find out who has been drawing the shapes on the walls! {Storytelling & film}
In Part 3… Ailsa’s performance of the Sound Map {Music & film}

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Cefnogwyd y cynllun yma gan arian y Loteri Genedlaethol drwy Gyngor Celfyddydau Cymru.
Mae’r Loteri Genedlaethol wedi rhannu £600 miliwn er mwyn cefnogi cymunedau led-led y DU yn ystod y cyfnod clo.

This project was made possible through funding from the Arts Council of Wales’s National Lottery Fund. Thanks to National Lottery players, up to £600 million has been made available to support communities throughout the UK during the Coronavirus crisis.

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Yr Ogof Olaf - Taith Sain /// The Last Cave - Sound Journey

Artist and musician Jem Finer and sculptor Richard Wilson discuss collaboration, reflecting on their projects – Finer on Longplayer and Wilson on A Slice of Reality – both commissioned on opposite sides of the Thames in the year 2000. Twenty-one years later, the talk marked Artangel's commission of Sonic Ray – an artistic installation which reconnected both projects, encoding the sound of Longplayer in a line of light, beamed across the river, to Wilson's wheel-house.

With an introduction by Artangel's Co-Director Michael Morris.

To find out more about Sonic Ray, visit: https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/sonic-ray/

Recorded by Artangel at Swedenborg House, London on Tuesday 9 November 2021.

Image: Sonic Ray. View from Richard Wilson's Slice of Reality, 2020. Photograph: Ibrahim Serra-Mohammed and Ascension Films.

Talk: Jem Finer and Richard Wilson in conversation

Edit of audio installation tracks from collaborative exhibition 'Interwoven' with textile artist Annie Fenton. The audio was a two part installation housed in Shift Cardiff, a huge basement space in Cardiff Capitol Centre. The bass track was played on two large speakers in one half of the basement, whilst the treble half was played over a series of speakers interwoven with Annie Fenton's textile installation.

The audio was inspired by Annie Fenton's textile piece, and a Finnish folk song, Kopsin Jonas.

Interwoven New Mix

Herbarium

Fish In Trawsfynydd Lake

Swimmers

This piece is a sound installation for a stairwell, intended to be played on a surround sound system with a subwoofer to reinforce the strong bass tones. It was created by initially recording and distorting violin sounds using the natural acoustics of a 3-floor stairwell, and then editing the recordings to render the violin unrecognisable in the finished track. The rumbling bass is situated at the bottom the stairwell, intended to create a sound that is both heard and felt, the piece engaging you in a meditative state that enables you to take more from your environment.

Unseeing

Lyrics by Siôn Teifi Rees & Sam Samuel Edwards Stevens

A soundscape created in response to time spent living in Venice as part of the Wales in Venice Invigilator Plus scheme. The piece takes you on a walk through Venice's sonic landscape, with elements of ambient recordings, edited effects, and recorded violin. Created for the 'Sightseers' exhibition at G39.

Soundscape of Venice

Recording of sound installation, 'Dafydd Y Garreg Wen', a piece exploring the boundaries between music, noise, and sound. The installation consisted of four channels, each speaker playing an isolated loop of a rendition of the aforementioned Welsh traditional song. Each 'voice' plays endlessly with no beginning or end, weaving  in and out of each other and rarely striking the same place twice.

Recording of Installation: Dafydd Y Garreg Wen

Edit of audio installation tracks from collaborative exhibition 'Interwoven' with textile artist Annie Fenton. The audio was a two part installation housed in Shift Cardiff, a huge basement space in Cardiff Capitol Centre. The bass track was played on two large speakers in one half of the basement, whilst the treble half was played over a series of speakers interwoven with Annie Fenton's textile installation. 

The audio was inspired by Annie Fenton's textile piece, and a Finnish folk song, Kopsin Jonas.

Interwoven Mix Excerpt

‘Voices’ is a new sound installation work created for a commission by Common Ground (working alongside Juneau Projects as part of 'Surroundings', a project by Invisible Dust in collaboration with Humber Museums Partnership, funded by Arts Council England). This installation, 'Voices', is featured alongside the work of five other selected U.K. artists as part of the Common Ground Art Trail, a public exhibition across various locations in North Lincolnshire which aims to highlight issues of biodiversity and wildlife conservation. 'Voices' is on show outside St Lawerence Church, Scunthorpe from 22/09/20 until 04/10/20.

‘Voices’ is an experimental sound work which combines distorted field recordings of birdsong with original vocal and multi-instrumental compositions. The environmental audio recordings were collected in response to the marked increase in the diversity and amount of birdsong experienced over lockdown. Lockdown facilitated an opportunity for deep listening and a more mindful engagement with nature; the thriving wildlife, in an environment less dominated by human activity, highlighted the impact of human interventions on the natural world. We must now question how we move forward after lockdown. This work, which juxtaposes industrial sounds and human voices with electronically manipulated birdsong and other environmental sounds, aims to highlight the decline in UK bird populations and the threat of extinction to many species caused by human interventions such as industrial scale intensive farming and the resulting loss of habitat diversity.

Voices

A Mile Radius from the Home (2’48”), sound composition from field recordings include; self composed folk song, military gun fire, conversation and birds song. 8 years after leaving, I returned to my family home for lockdown, the recordings were all documented within a mile radius of our house. Locations include Coygan Quarry, a Sustainable Aqua Farm and Laugharne Estuary with its history of cockle fishing, now 9 miles of Ministry of Defence land.

a one mile radius from the home

Anima

Sound artist and radio host based in Cardiff. Find selected work on here as well as past Pitch Radio shows!

Recording of Installation: Dafydd Y Garreg Wen

Heledd C Evans

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