Initial Sound Sketches

The first Soundmarks exhibition/installation took place last week, alongside the launch of the sound trail and book. We’ll write some reflections on all of that soon (thankyou to everyone who took part!)

Today I’ve been archiving all my project materials (all 30GB of sound and images… my laptop cooling fan breathes a sigh of relief) onto hard drives and came across the initial concept sketches I made back in January 2019 after Rose and I first walked around the village.

I’ve worked a lot on other artist’s archives in the past, and I’ve always found it interesting how initial concepts evolve, become altered by the characteristics of a particular place or space, or remain unrealised.

Looking back, eight months later, most of these initial ideas became part of the work, but their relative sparseness reminds me how much I have learnt from the collaboration with Rose, and the time spent in the Aldborough landscape.