The mysterious origins of the chalk-hill figure known locally as the Folkestone Elephant are explored through an immersive countryside walk using mobile Augmented Reality. The walk invites users to consider the importance of the landmark through a series of geo-located ‘found’ video clips and accompanying survey questions.
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Continue reading Have You Seen The Folkestone Elephant?Lithoscapes is an interactive library of acoustical Impulse Response (IR) recordings made at important geological sites within the Kent Downs AONB. At each location a recording was made of a balloon being popped. The sonic information encapsulates the acoustic space and is processed to create a reverb effect that can be reproduced and applied to other sounds. The app allows the user to compose patterns of sound and play them into their selected lithoscape.
Continue reading LithoscapesExploring the mysterious energies and effects of sounds invoked by ancient symbols and sacred geometry.
In response to the question “What’s happening, exactly?” posed by Folkestone Fringe, and as part of the MagiC Carpets platform, Pent Happenings comprises a series of audio-visual artworks, workshops and events drawing on field studies, geo-scientific data and research concerning Folkestone’s Pent stream and its environs.
A virtual wind chime, created in Pure Data (Pd), reacts to real-time UK Met Office data. Wind speed and direction data from a chosen location is used to trigger a pentatonic scale of synthetic bell-like sounds.
Created in collaboration with eco-poet Chris Poundwhite, Green Language offers a unique perspective on the Folkestone Downs (SSSI). Through a blend of transportive soundscapes and visual poetry, the work explores the site’s rich ecosystem and our human relationship to this ever-present feature of the local landscape.