Hunstanton – some pictures, some sound

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Hunstanton is a small seaside town along the north edge of the county of Norfolk (though I think it’s under King’s Lynn and West Norfolk council). It’s sort of split in two halves referred to as Old Hunstanton and New Hunstanton. This post is about New Hunstanton.
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It’s a proper British seasidey town – there’s a lot less of the delis and art galleries you see in other North Norfolk towns. It has a traditional sea front that doesn’t seem to have the money lavished on it that Cromer has.
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It often feels as if it’s stuck in a particular time or, rather, a particular time in my memory. Here are some photos I took whilst I was there and a recording of Thomas’s Bingo – an amusement arcade and bingo hall on the seafront.

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It also has a Sea Life Centre – an excellent way of entertaining children!

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Snapshot sounds making new sounds

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One of my snapshot iphone field recordings done with the SoundCloud App has been utilised by another SoundCloud user for their own piece of music.

This piece recorded in my works garden has been used by nojoined for his piece ‘a lack of faith‘. It’s fascinating listening to it how my original recording is altered and transformed as the piece moves on – this is probably due to me remembering the actual sounds whilst there, the mind trying to put the two together.

I really like the SoundCloud app and the way it allows you to share spur of the moment sounds like this and identify and log them to their location and time. That they can then be used as inspiration for something else through the sharing of is also brilliant too. A score for creativity.
Enjoy.

Stamp of the week…at 51 euros!

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Rescued from a parcel for my attention by the good Paul Jones of PWJ Photography this was attached to some crazy paper with a man prepped for full BBQ action. I have no idea why.
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Went to the Birmingham Zine Fair yesterday to. Held at We Are Birmingham, it was loads better than the Nottingham one (sorry but it’s true!) with loads of stalls and contributors. We Are Brimingham is a nice airy bright space just a short walk up from the Bullring. There was so much good stuff there it was tricky taking it all in – bombarded with so much imagery! It would have been very easy to wander in and be £80 but before you know it! My stash is below. There was so much more I wanted to get but only so much money I had to spend.
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I really did want everything on Luke Pearson‘s stall though.
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Though I didn’t get to see it, I talked to a friend about the Home Of Metal exhibition at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Was interested in it anyway but since finding out they’ve got a little section dedicated to Napalm Death, I DEFINITELY want to go there now.

stamp of the week (of oddness)

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A regular and mundane stamp for an irregular week for me. Or has it? It’s been a week where regular everyday events just appeared to carry more weight. I turned 40. There was the funeral for my next door neighbour. Friends all sitting together at the end of the garden, chatting about old days as the sun slowly set. Then but two days later in the garden backing onto that, young people celebrating something else, voices raised in high spirits, laughter, singing. Then my eldest daughter leading the orchestra into their final piece at school.

These kind of things happen everyday everywhere – they just seemed to be in a different colour this week.

Outtakes and updates

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So, somewhere in the middle of April I decided to start three projects with the intention of getting them done for summer (now reads the end of summer). Of those three projects one is now complete, the second has begun (with a finished track, as I write this) and the third has has some ideas bashed about ( I need a piano, can some get me a piano please?)

Of the one finished article, I’m not sure what to do with it yet, I should have some idea by the weekend on how I make it available and stuff. It’s around twenty minutes long and is made up of edited down improvisations of the song ‘Spring’, which if you’ve seen me play live is also known as ‘the birdy song’. Over the past two years this songs has developed into a near 40 minute exploration of different strands of the song. I’m happy with how it’s all come out and some of it really captures the ‘letting the mind wander’ aspects of my work. I hope to share it with you soon.

In the meantime, please find below some of the sounds that didn’t make it but I didn’t want to erase.