The album from our Collecting Pl4ces is out now! Go grap yourself a digital copy!
Forward 4 Wiz Trust’s ground-breaking project Collecting Pl4ces celebrates landmarks of cultural heritage in Rushmoor, by showcasing space-specific works written and recorded from the acoustic mapping of locations that build a catalogue of the sociocultural history of the borough. The project was inspired by a 1960 Ordnance Survey map that highlighted huge changes over time. Rushmoor, like many communities within the UK, has lost most of its once thriving sociocultural scene to commercial development. Collecting Pl4ces acts as a catalogue of audio photographs of our shared past, present and future.
Come and help us celebrate the culmination of our Collecting Pl4ces project celebrating landmarks of cultural heritage in Rushmoor.
We have something unique planned (of course we do!) in our favourite home, the West End Centre. Come hear the music, find out all about what we’ve been up to this past year. Meet the artists, have a chat and a chill.
Collecting Pl4ces showcases space-specific works written and recorded from the acoustic mapping of locations that build a catalogue of the sociocultural history of the borough.
The project was supported by National Lottery funding through Arts Council England.
Event: Wednesday 1st February, 7:30pm
Tickets: Pay what you decide
Collecting PL4ces is funded by Arts Council England and supported by Hampshire Cultural Trust.
15/10/22 AT 20:30 Bananafish X West End Centre
29/10/22 AT 19:00 Akira Sileas X Maida Gym
12/11/22 AT 19:00 Hannah Lou Clark X Farnborough Centrifuge
26/11/22 AT 20:00 Jamie Lenman x The Rooms Rehearsal Studios
10/12/22 AT 20:00 huske monde x Smith Dorrien
See you there!
We are proud to announce our ground-breaking project “Collecting Pl4ces“. It celebrates landmarks of cultural heritage in Rushmoor, by showcasing space-specific works written and recorded from the acoustic mapping of locations that build a catalogue of the sociocultural history of the borough. The project was inspired by a 1960 Ordnance Survey map that highlighted huge change over time. Rushmoor, like many communities within the UK, has lost most of its once thriving sociocultural scene to commercial development. Collecting Pl4ces acts as a catalogue of audio photographs; our shared past, present and future.
Collecting Pl4ces signposts places of local significance by gathering impulse responses using a short transient sound at each location. These transient recordings together with a freely available convolution reverb plugin will allow professional and aspiring local musicians, to incorporate the acoustic identity of a site into their own creations.
We are making the impulse responses available to anyone worldwide who would like to use them to explore their own musical identity within the virtual space of our local places.
There will also be live performances from selected local artists in each space to celebrate the unique atmospheres of these “audio photographs” of our local heritage.
Finally a compilation release of all of the artists involved, local and worldwide will be made available.
If you would like to get involved and submit your music recording using one of our local places impulse responses please click here for more information.
"I really enjoyed my experience with Spaces4sound, it increased my confidence loads with moving forward in recording and performing. I can't wait to do more, and would encourage anyone to get envolved."
- Rachel Thomas
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