Postcards from Lancaster nt011

6 06 2020

Continuing the work on ‘Northern’ with cellist Maja Bugge and video artist Adam York-Gregory, we spent a week in Lancaster recording the sounds and images that represent their hometown, as described by local people and the children Maja interviewed.

During this time, we documented the place with sounds and video for performances at Manchester Jazz festival and Lancaster Jazz festival. Those performances were improvised with material we collected during residencies in those places and we interpreted our sense of place from a menu of field recordings and video clips.

Presented here is a selection of the recordings I used to produce samples for performance. These recordings were collected at different key locations, which included the Lune river, Lancaster canal, Williamson park and Ashton memorial. We had exclusive access to the Lancaster brewery and Atkinsons coffee where we recorded amazing sounds from the machinery with rare insights into the production process.

Thanks to Full of Noises, MJF, LJF, ACE for making the work possible.