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Soundwalkscapes - Viv Corringham
Out March 15
"Soundwalkscapes began with a self-imposed rule: on the first Monday of every month in 2023, wherever I find myself, I will take a walk. I’ll record the walk, the environment and my improvised sung response to the sounds and situation." - Viv Corringham.
From her early Vocal Strolls broadcast on Resonance FM in London to her exploration of Urban Song Paths and her long term Shadow-walks series Viv Corringham has long been regarded as a key figure within contemporary practices of soundwalking.
For more than two decades Corringham has been experimenting with iterations of walking and vocal improvisation, exploring themes of home, memory and personal belonging. In doing so she has walked and sung alone and in company. She has led silent walks, and sounding walks, composed multi-channel walks and produced geolocated versions too.
In Soundwalkscapes Corringham again invites us to join her as she encounters her surroundings using her voice and body. In listening we move with her through five journeys in New York State, and one in London. On these walks we hear multiple, and overlapping versions of space itself. We listen to the polyphony of multiple voices, overlapping, merging, and clashing, and encounter the aural traces of other bodies and other species moving, breathing, chirruping, rustling, stamping, shuffling and banging.
We meet different versions of Corringham too. She counts, tells us of her wait for dinner, reads pollution warnings and recounts snippets of local history. And of course she sings: with birds, the ocean, horses and footfalls. She sings us the content of signs, the rhythms of construction noise, and the hiss of the waves.
Part narrated journey, part imagined fiction, Soundwalkscapes continues Corringham's expansive and profound explorations of the multiple and viscous relations between voice, place and the mobility of walking.
Join us for the London launch of Soundwalkscapes March 15 at Hundred Years Gallery
New Release
Opticks - Cody Yantis
Feb 16
Based in New Mexico, in America's Southwest, Cody Yantis produced Opticks using a single synthesiser and two field recordings. And yet within it there are many worlds, many landscapes. In the seven compositions which comprise the album Yantis evokes the almost imperceptible movements of air currents; the slow erosion of jagged landscapes.
Opticks is an arid album, an album of deserts, canyons and rocky outcrops, minimal, even barren. Its winds, its stones, its plains are vast and severe. But not unchanging. These minimal works are produced from undulations; minute and shifting fluctuations. Sand in the wind, ice melting and re-freezing, rocks slowly cracking and breaking apart.
Deep listening for the dark winter months.
Latest episode of our radio show
Airs each month on Resonance Extra.
Atmospheric Densities episode 20
Aired February 27, 2024
The first Atmospheric Densities show in six months, and of course that means there is a lot to listen to! We go deep with Cody Yantis' new album Opticks, a meditation on the landscape of America's Southwest made from two field recordings and one synthesiser.
We also dip into two release from the label late last year: Metal the energetic collaboration between Czech inventor and musician Petr Válek and improvisers Ondřej Merta and Jara Tarnovski, performed in part on Válek's metal sculptures. And Liz Helman's drone and field recording work The Colour of Water produced out of her daily ritual of walking in London.
I had a few things which came out late last year so I play a few pieces from these releases, namely: A Field Guide to Phantasmic Birds, and my ode to sauerkraut On cabbages, salt, bacteria and transformations.
And we close with the two pieces from Soundwalkscapes the forthcoming album from the legendary improviser Viv Corringham who has an album launch at Hundred Years Gallery on March 15th. Be there or miss out!