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The caress of the audible: Re-sounding Falkland

Re-Sounding Falkland is a collaborative sound-based project that explores the sonic features of the Falkland Estate. It provides a sonic mediation of the natural world and the durational exploration of Fife Scotland through audio-visual installation. The project applies the techniques of reconstructive acoustic archaeology to historical structures on the estate. Then, using the technique of convolution reverb, the imagined experience of listening inside these sites when they were intact, is simulated. The project comprises three phases: Arcadia (2008), Falkland Audiowalk (2009) and Re-sounding Falkland (2010), a series of site-specific audio-visual installations exhibited at the Falkland Centre for Stewardship, Falkland, Scotland, 29-30 May 2010. These installations include Cascading, a 6-channel audio work, Temple of Decision, a video installation, and Chase a yard worse than last, a live interactive sound piece. The event was accompanied by critical and contextual essays and a website containing audio and video documentation.

Conferences:

22 May 2011, 5th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape, Florence, Italy

3 September 2010 Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, London

13 July 2009 Journal of Media Practice Symposium, Sussex University

20 April 2009 Sound and the Heritage Experience, National Railway Museum, York

5 September 2008 Sounding Out 4. University of Sunderland

BBC Radio 4 Documentary Hearing The Past (Broadcast. 12 September 2011 Prod: Jane Reek, Presenter: Prof. Jim Al-Khalili) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b014f9q5

Interview, Ann Cranny-Francis, SCAN: Journal of Media Arts Culture: http://scan.net.au/scan/journal/display.php?journal_id=125

This project was funded by Creative Scotland, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and Falkland Centre for Stewardship.Article commissioned by guest editor Prof. Ann Cranny-Francis (Uni. Of Technology, Sydney) for a special edition on ‘touch’.