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Site Singing as a project has emerged from my ongoing work around voice, performance, visual art, and composition – all in relation to site. A key part of how I develop my work is by making drawings, sometimes on the train or bus journeys home from a field trip. My drawings are how I process a memory, or visualise an experience, of singing in a particular place. I will display them together here, along with other visual work and documentation of the various Site Singing events.

 

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As Above So Below site-specific collaborative artist residency at St John on the Wall, Bristol, with Markus Felier (Berlin)

As the sound works begin to get treatments, so have these images: Stoney Littleton

As the sound works begin to get treatments, so have these images: Belas Knap

Visuals of the site in use for The Stage at The Arnolfini

voice work lying face down on Over Bridge

Rain wind and a rainbow at Over Bridge

3d drawing of Over Bride on dark2

3d drawing of Over Bridge in dark1

3d drawing of Over bridge in light

A jointly-made sound-drawing done on the train to Gloucester – our first collaborative act of the day.

Wonderfil prints found in a book kept in Bristol Central Library reserves, including images of Stanton Drew

The latest Site Singing work in progress shown at the Polyphony exhibition

Stoney Littleton skull, drawn from life on a visit to the Death exhibition at Bristol City Museum

An interactive guided walk through the project by torchlight

Audiences could physically handle all materials – books, drawings, maps

Eastonia event – laying out the material

Stoney Littleton – a drawing of a memory of singing inside

video clip of Maiden Castle 3d drawing being made

Watching the Maiden Castle video piece

Wanda and her sound drawing

Memory drawing of entrance to Stoney Littleton, when having it in mind and missing it

Memory drawing of voice and dictaphone in Stoney Littleton Long Barrow, imagining floating above the barrow and looking through the mound xray-like

Uley Long Barrow by Chloe Turpin

Sound Drawing by Faisal Jhouja

Sound Drawing by KD

Belas Knap Long Barrow by DJ

Uley Long Barrow by Holly

The Tithe Barn by Jessica Kuyper

Over Bridge by Wanda

Belas Knap by Holly

How the OS maps and photos field trips were presented at the Site Singing exhibition

Listening to sound sketches

Drawings on display, in as tactile and three dimentional a way as possible

The Tithe Barn

The Long Barrows

Over Bridge

Drawings inspired by Neolithic Long Barrow pages of The Handbook of British Archaeology by R and L Adkins and V Leitch

Drawings inspired by Neolithic Long Barrow pages of The Handbook of British Archaeology by R and L Adkins and V Leitch

A combination of all the barrows, Mere Fish House, and Over Bridge

Over Bridge, with the sounds I made along its length. Over laying the side view and the view from on top, with the arches imagined below.

Mere Fish House small in the flat landscape, like a model in a ratio of an octave.

The ratios at Mere as diagrams.

In progress…

Memory drawing of singing at Belas Knap Long Barrow, imagining being able to fly through the closed ‘false portal’ and sing inside the mound

The chambers of Belas Knap drawn without the earth mound

Imagining the flat circle of stones which lie concealed within the barrow

Diagram of Belas Knap with sloe berry juice. I drew in the sloe bush and gate, the bee, my lunch box and my dictaphone

OS map for Meare Fish House

3d drawing made from a photo of the interpretation board at Meare Fish House

Drawing single lines across a page in both directions, like cars at high speed, and erasing a ‘ghost bridge’ from the texture

All three bridges – railway, Over Bridge and the new road bridge

The road bridge with traffic, and hovering above it, Over Bridge as a ‘ghost bridge’ in erased pencil

To me these look like sonic symbols

Drawings of throwing voice underneath the bridge, and hearing the echo from the other side

Drawings from memory of Over Bridge. This one is the experience of being surrounded by arches, both sonically and visually, when standing between the new road bridge and the disused Over bridge

OS map showing Over Bridge

Using the shape cut from the coffee cup holder can create another 3d ‘barrow’, placed on paper with blackberry marks from berries picked at the Tithe Barn

3d drawings of Uley Long Barrow using sloe berries gathered on site, and the coffee cup I carried with me

Another 3d form of the profile of a barrow, with ‘lungs’ inside

‘Lungs’ placed inside the ‘barrow’

Drawing with broken lines, like Ordnance Survey map footpath lines, and layering them up like the voices in the audio sketch for Uley.

Layering the barrow-like shapes, and combining with another part of the coffee cup I collected the berries in with a barrow shape cut out of it.

Using elderberry juice and OS ‘footpath’ lines to form barrow-like shapes

Elderberries picked at Uley, as lungs

Illustration of Uley long barrow – in top right of image – during Roman times. From Shrines and Sacrifice by Ann Woodward, pub. B.T. Batsford Ltd / English Heritage, 1992

The library didn’t have the OS map for this site, so I printed out a screen grab from the internet. Photo shows the map after the field trip, having been folded and rained on. The taxi number was given by a passer by when I was lost – I didnt need it in the end.

Drawing the route I took, including where I got lost, on mis-printed paper

Visualising the sensation of using the voice to find the form of Stoney Littleton’s chambers in pitch black

Stoney Littleton from memory 2, with Rowan berries rubbed into the page

Stoney Littleton from memory 1

Using OS imagery such as colours and contours, memory of the formation of Stoney Littleton long barrow and the sounds I made in each chamber

Using colours from the Ordnance Survey map, memory of the formation of Stoney Littleton’s 7 chambers, with hawthorn berries rubbed into the page

Hawthorn growing at Stoney Littleton

OS map showing Uley and Nympsfield Long Barrows

Drawing of memory of singing inside Uley

Drawing inspired by OS map of Uley, known as Hetty Pegler’s Tump

Using the stonemasons mark as an idea for a spatial arrangement of singers

Drawing of stonemasons marks

3d drwaing made while listening to an online audio tour of Maiden Castle

Creating a drawing on a housemoving box from the audio tour of Maiden Castle

Using blackberry juice to create images, drying on a house-moving box

After visiting the Tithe Barn

Stonemasons mark at Bradford-On-Avon Tithe Barn