Reflections

Soon it’ll be eight weeks since my relocation to Aberdeen from London and this seems an appropriate time to start reflecting on this passage. A passage for it is taking place, still now, as an experience of a new environment. And of course an environment that now has a very different–scape than the urban/metropolitan one I got used to.

London now looks like a break—a long one, between my upbringing in the countryside and my research about to start now on the sonic-aural landscape in composition set once again in a much different urban location.

I have been exploring the region in the past few weeks, beyond Aberdeenshire to the Highlands of Scotland with much interest in the shape, colour, content, and outline of the landscape.

I am now working with some of the documentation I’ve recorded in Braemar and Helmsdale to develop a composition that is rooted in what Tim Ingold defines as the visible and the visual, while I’m being hunted by romantic ideas of the sublime.