Fragments from the Ruins
Last year, I was commissioned by Aune Head Arts at Dartington Hall to make a sound piece for radio.
It was my first opportunity to work with sound, &I spent the summer months collecting material from recordings of visitors to my workshop.
This was often accompanied by the sound of the wind,& birdcall, as the local people, ex miners, farmers, friends & visitors, gave their impressions ,both of the broken heaps& ruins that surround me, &of some of the artefacts &relics I have collected on these wild& desolate clifftops.
The Crown Mines, Botallack , January
Ruins of Levant Mines
One of the artefacts described
The”Art of Darkness Museum” Count House Botallack 1997
(commissioned by the first”St Ives International”)
“The Botallack Hoard” Royal Cornwall Museum Truro 2010.
barques & boats
the vaulted tunnels of the arsenic “lambreth” Botallack
The “Cathode Queen”,& (below) Trundler Sun two more of the artefacts described.
The programme is scheduled to be broadcast,onApril 11th, on Soundart Radio
(102.5fm Dartington &Totnes area.)
It is also be available FREEon line as a PODCAST, please contact http://www.auneheadarts.org.uk for more details & information about their new series of artists podcasts.
THANKYOU toTony & Nancy & all at AHA & also everybody who contributed to this programme, especially Adam Sharpe,Chris Yarosz,Mercedes Kemp,Bill Mitchell,Kenny Trembath,Rose Hilton, Ria Higler, Andrea Garrihy,& Horace & Sid Lewis
