ABSTRACT:

This is an Environmental Tour of the sea region of the Bristol Channel.

In it I will be travelling by van the coastal region from Marloes and Skokholm Island all the way around to Hartland point in Devon.

Equipped with a petrol generator, a sound system and a table of old electronic equipment I will be making impromptu performances sometimes utylising material recorded with microphone onto tape and processed.

I was thinking about what a 'gig' or 'concert' was constituted by. Both in terms of social and concrete experience and the obvious 'musical' experience.

I decided that for me to do something purely for its own sake, not justify it by any level of sharing or accetable format I would need to abandon completely the conventionally valorised formalites and start with the absolute conviction in another source of inspiration, in this case the entire coast of the Bristol Channel, the sea region known as 'Lundy' in the shipping forecast.

The Tour is due to take place between 10th - 18th September this year.

A mobile phone number (mine) is available to call ech day of the Tour should anyone wish to come out and participate as the audience.

This number is 07968 360 216

It explores the 'coast' as formal operation on the production of music, sound, composiitons and video.

As a governor of the totality of organic life and activity in its region the Bristol Channel becomes the backdrop that allows the foregrounded project (the 'Tour') to accrue some significance.

Attempting to engage in a greater, much greater panorama I hope to throw planning and pre-conception to the wind (as far as possible) and search for a union with as many natural stimuli as can be used as formative elements.

Not only formative but also emotional, as response to place and atmosphere will colour any spontaneity taking place.

On a daily routine each site is freely explored borrowing a 'drifting' perception from psychogeography.

The Sea region of Hafren Mor (welsh) will always be the backdrop but perhaps not always in an obvious way. It is taken that its influence is already immediate and material but open to the imposition that any searching and examination may uncover.

Im mindful of treating the found too much as if the 'environmental' needed anykind of locating or siting.

It is not the brief of this project to do that.

Rather I see the audible as a 'medium' INwhich to gather, process, connect-with and transform not in order to deny its ecologic self-reality but to 'make' it human and expressively possible.

Primary to any image concern is the whole of the 'Landscape' and the dominating role of it over me and anything I am doing.

Image only serves as a means of re-producing the Tour later in a gallery or cinema.

Having said that I like to work with multiple image types: super 8mm film, slide film, 16mm film, photographs taken with phones, etc.



If you want to read the working notes on techniques, intentions, aims and other factors go back and follow the notes link.



Many thanks