Dis/Locating Cultures of Equality

Geo-located album

Our homes, and where we come from, shape the way we view the world: the things that comfort us, the things that make us feel out of shape. In a year where we have spent more time than we could have ever anticipated in our households - 5 young artist reflect on what home means to them.

Recorded in the final days before the first UK Lockdown, Nature in a Human Crisis is an exploration of unavoidable transition, disquietment, peace and rejuvenation.

This guided walk from Brockley Station towards Stansted Road in Honor Oak aims to let us listen to what is already happening in the area and imagine how it could sound in the future. The area covers the Brockley Corridor where major improvement works by Lewisham Council are being planned and currently consulted on to alleviate issues around air pollution, traffic and safety. Soundwalk practice exists in many forms, but on this walk we will move in silence for part of the journey and then stop to share reflections. Both the ambient noise and these personal reflections has been recorded.

An action research project that uses storytelling as a method for starting conversations about the past, present and future of Rye Lane. The project is funded by Southwark Council’s High Street Recovery Fund. Project Website: https://hiddenvoiceshiddengems.cargo.site/

The Pest

This is Witch 'n' Monk's first GPS-guided release: a new way to experience music, made for disobedient minds. Something between a quest game, an interactive podcast and a sound walk. Part of their release called OUTFOX: a collection of new music on the theme of radical creativity. To download Pagamento click here: www.witchnmonk.com/pagamento-gift

This is Witch 'n' Monk's second GPS-guided release: a new way to experience music, made for disobedient minds. Something between a quest game, an interactive podcast and a sound walk. Part of their release called OUTFOX: a collection of new music on the theme of radical creativity.  To download Revolution click here: www.witchnmonk.com/revolution-gift

Museum of Sounds is a tribute to sound artists and their work. on Ubuweb I came across Urban Reference: the work of ten artists who focus on the relationship between the individual and the urban environment I created a sound installation in the Isle of dogs inspired by its history. "The Isle of Dogs made national and international news in 1970, thanks to its Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI). In protest at the lack of facilities on the Island, a group of residents got together and declared the Island to be independent of the UK, an action which included blocking the Blue Bridge and blocking Westferry Road near the Blacksmith’s Arms in the west of the Island." Read more about the Isle of dogs: https://islandhistory.wordpress.com/2019/08/31/the-isle-of-dogs-in-the-seventies-sound-on/ I hope people will enjoy reflecting on the relationship between urban landscape and human beings listening to the voice of ten very unique artists for the first time on the Isle of Dogs together. Kerry Trenove "Enclosures" (5:00) Helen Chadwick "Model Institution: an Architectural Sound Sculpture" (5:33) John Carson "American Medley" (8:13) Vito Acconci "Now Do You Believe The Dirty Dogs Are Dead" (1:10) Stuart Brisley "There Will Be No Disasters (Georgiana Collection V)" (5:00) Les Levine "Lose" (5:00) F. Uwe Laysiepen / Marina Abramovic "Bioguarde" (4:43), 1982 Roberta M. Graham (The Bob Graham Four) "Hit and Myth" (4:55), 1982 Steve Willats "The New Reality" (8:00), 1982 Elsa Stansield / Madelon Hooykaas "Void" (10:00) From http://www.ubu.com/sound/live_to_air.html Notes "Live to Air comprises an international compilation of artists' sound works. Forty-five artists were invited to make a work for the context of Audio Arts with an approximate duration of five minutes. The medium of magnetic tape, and the processes and technologies associated with sound recording, now represent a significant and growing area of art practice that has, until now, been largely overlooked. This work has no form other than playback from tape, as opposed to the recording function being used 'passively' as a method of retaining an acoustic event, or acting as a strategy for other work. Furthermore, the processes of working with sound provide artists with similar manipulative, structural and ideological freedoms and possibilities to those normally associated with the traditional media such as painting, sculpture and collage. In many respects, this audial/technological 'space' is parallel to the physical space of a gallery, yet extends it through the potential of widespread dissemination inherent in the multiple production of cassettes and through broadcasting. Ref. "Live To Air: Artist's Sound Works" (Audio Arts Magazine, Volume 5, Nos 3 & 4, 1982)