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BEACHed Trio (improvised) film
My visual response to Chris Dowding's BEACHed Trio EP. This film is made from field-clips of the Norfolk coast gathered while walking, listening, witnessing and live mixed (improvised) on the afternoon of 12th May 2026.
This sublimely beautiful music is called 'Walcott / Hunstanton' and was recorded on 23rd November 2024 by Anton Hunter at Jazz in the Round at The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Mixed & mastered by Anton Hunter.
BEACHed Trio is Chris Dowding (trumpet & electronics), Anton Hunter (baritone guitar) & Johnny Hunter (drums).
All music compositions by Chris Dowding.
'Live at Jazz in the Round' EP on www.beachedtrio.bandcamp.com https://beachedtrio.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-jazz-in-the-round
#improvisation #composition #emergentmusic #audiovisual
This sublimely beautiful music is called 'Walcott / Hunstanton' and was recorded on 23rd November 2024 by Anton Hunter at Jazz in the Round at The Cockpit Theatre, Marylebone, as part of the EFG London Jazz Festival. Mixed & mastered by Anton Hunter.
BEACHed Trio is Chris Dowding (trumpet & electronics), Anton Hunter (baritone guitar) & Johnny Hunter (drums).
All music compositions by Chris Dowding.
'Live at Jazz in the Round' EP on www.beachedtrio.bandcamp.com https://beachedtrio.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-jazz-in-the-round
#improvisation #composition #emergentmusic #audiovisual
deep listen - deep play
These workshops or projects begin with tuning into sonic worlds that are all around us through deep listening practices.
Most recent sessions have been for :
Ripple Festival Great Yarmouth Sept 2025
Expanded Arts school | original projects Nov 2025
Suffolk Art Link | Littlebeats Dec 2025
We reimagine how young children are experiencing sound and how this differs from the way in which our adult ears habitually listen.
The session moves onto playful practices of encountering each other through sound using voice and sound makers. We reflect on how we relate through sonic play.
Participants will be invited to wander and collect sounds for a common piece. This can take the form of group listening through a single device and/or solo journeys.
Finally, a set of improvised works will be created and performed by the participants.
Recordings from the workshop can be made into a soundwork.
Deep Listening draws attention to how sound carries intelligence, expression, feelings and memories.
‘Listening is not the same thing as hearing and hearing is not the same thing as listening’ (Oliveros 2005: xxi).
Deep listening is tuning our ears into the sonic landscape; the vibrating relations of human and more-than-human encounter.
Sonic elements work upon each other in a way that is impossible to see or pin down or explain in words but absolutely possible to listen to. Expression and relation can be felt and understood in a way that is somehow much more tangible and felt through listening than through watching. We hear and feel interconnectedness through sound.
Deep listening opens up to the excesses of the world expressed in sound. Deep listening is Tuning into what we have learned to tune out.
Sound takes place in time; it comes with time attached to it. Oliveros’ practice of Deep Listening is a way of opening up present time and ‘developing an awareness of all sounds across spacetime’ (Rodgers 2010:19).
Most recent sessions have been for :
Ripple Festival Great Yarmouth Sept 2025
Expanded Arts school | original projects Nov 2025
Suffolk Art Link | Littlebeats Dec 2025
We reimagine how young children are experiencing sound and how this differs from the way in which our adult ears habitually listen.
The session moves onto playful practices of encountering each other through sound using voice and sound makers. We reflect on how we relate through sonic play.
Participants will be invited to wander and collect sounds for a common piece. This can take the form of group listening through a single device and/or solo journeys.
Finally, a set of improvised works will be created and performed by the participants.
Recordings from the workshop can be made into a soundwork.
Deep Listening draws attention to how sound carries intelligence, expression, feelings and memories.
‘Listening is not the same thing as hearing and hearing is not the same thing as listening’ (Oliveros 2005: xxi).
Deep listening is tuning our ears into the sonic landscape; the vibrating relations of human and more-than-human encounter.
Sonic elements work upon each other in a way that is impossible to see or pin down or explain in words but absolutely possible to listen to. Expression and relation can be felt and understood in a way that is somehow much more tangible and felt through listening than through watching. We hear and feel interconnectedness through sound.
Deep listening opens up to the excesses of the world expressed in sound. Deep listening is Tuning into what we have learned to tune out.
Sound takes place in time; it comes with time attached to it. Oliveros’ practice of Deep Listening is a way of opening up present time and ‘developing an awareness of all sounds across spacetime’ (Rodgers 2010:19).
Barn Jam
I have been running Barn Jams with fellow VJ Rachel Write since 2020. These jams are joyfull, audio-visual-movement improvisation spaces where projection artists, musicians, movers and markers improvise together and time does funny wibbly wobbly things. Barn jams take place at Stapleton farm, ambition's graveyard, magic acorn's space and any other suitable space.
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