Resounding
A project by Stuart Bowditch following in the footsteps of J A Baker, author of The Peregrine (1967), making field recordings around the River Blackwater in Essex and deriving work from those recordings.
Stuart Bowditch is a field recordist, artist and musician whose work is located in places and communities that exist on the fringes, both geographically and socially, with a particular interest in the sonic landscape, capturing overlooked and overheard noises and using sound as a documentative and creative medium.
Resounding was funded by an Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice grant in 2019. The fund enabled Stuart to develop his ideas and thinking around location based sound, work on the project between 2019-20, receive mentoring from Iris Garrelfs and for Joe and Charlotte to completely rebuild his website.
The inspiration for this project came from one of Baker's maps that was exhibited at Focal Point Gallery in 2015. Stuart loves maps and became fascinated by the hand-drawn marks on it, a P enclosed by a circle, at various points along the sea wall of the River Blackwater in Essex. He spoke to curator James Ravinet to learn of the maps provenance and thus his fascination with Baker began.
Resounding was funded by an Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice grant in 2019. The fund enabled Stuart to develop his ideas and thinking around location based sound, work on the project between 2019-20, receive mentoring from Iris Garrelfs and for Joe and Charlotte to completely rebuild his website.
The inspiration for this project came from one of Baker's maps that was exhibited at Focal Point Gallery in 2015. Stuart loves maps and became fascinated by the hand-drawn marks on it, a P enclosed by a circle, at various points along the sea wall of the River Blackwater in Essex. He spoke to curator James Ravinet to learn of the maps provenance and thus his fascination with Baker began.
RecordingsAll of the hour long recordings from beside the River Blackwater can be heard (for free) on Stuart's Soundcloud. |
AlbumA selection of the recordings were released as an album on micro label Courier. |
ArchiveA lot of Baker's artefacts including documents, photographs, book drafts, poems and binoculars reside in the Albert Sloman Library at the Essex University Archive. |
ExhibitionsSpring 2024 - Chelmsford City Museum - Restless Brilliance; The story of JA Baker and The Peregrine |
