Resounding Falkland

Falkland Palace and Falkland Estate including the House of Falkland, Fife, Scotland withpublished catalogue, three peer-reviewed texts and conference proceedings And a mention inaward-winning bbc radio 4 documentary Hearing the Past?!A multi-media art project undertaken by David Chapman and I on the Falkland Estate in Fife,Scotland between 2008 – 10. The various sound, video and live works we made over thistime drew on personal responses to the site as well as the testimonies of others with aspecific relationship to Falkland and its rich vein of intriguing geological and archaeologicalfeatures and historical narratives. The works applied innovative acoustical research from theUniversity of York.The works produced were: Arcadia (2008) an eight-channel audio work for the TapestryGallery in Falkland Palace; Falkland Audiowalk (2009) a downloadable mp3 audio piece;Temple of Decision, (2010) an HD video incorporating specially-commissioned reconstructiveacoustics work from the University of York; the six-channel audio installation Cascading(2010) and the live work Chase a Yard Worse than Last (2010).Additionally a catalogue entitled Resounding Falkland was produced which includedcommissioned texts by Christopher Woodward, Eric Laurier, Damian Murphy, David Jones,REF Outputs Feedbackthe artists and an introduction by Ninian Stuart. This is downloadable from:http://www.resoundingfalkland.com/.In the text Sept 2011 ‘The Caress of the Audio: Re-sounding Falkland’, Social Semiotics Vol.21, No. 4, pp: 517-529 we asked what the role of touch is in the creation and experience ofaudio-visual media. This project and the methodologies employed we believed opened upissues in relation to the use of media technologies to investigate and re-interpret historicalactions, processes, the senses and memory. The special issue “Touch” of Social Semioticswas guest edited by Australian academic Dr Anne Cranny-Francis whom we first met whenwe gave a joint paper on the Falkland project at an early stage at the conference SoundingOut 4 (an international symposium on Sound in the Media in Sunderland in September 2008).We were interviewed in her guest-edited and refereed issue of the Australian online journalScan: a journal of media arts culture. We also wrote ‘Falkland: a Sonic Investigation of Place’,for the Journal of Media Practice, Vol.11, No.3. pp: 231-242 (December 2010). In May 2011David Chapman and I attended the 5th International FKL Symposium on Soundscape inFlorence, Italy to give a paper entitled Falkland: a sonic investigation of place. Theproceedings from the Keep an Ear On Symposium (including a reworked 2000 word textbased on our paper) have now been published.Arcadia was cited in a BBC Radio 4 documentary entitled Hearing the Past (2011), producedby Jane Reck. This won the Royal Society Radio Prize for the best scripted/ edited radioprogramme or podcast. This is one of the annual ABSW Science Writer’s Awards for Britainand Ireland (ASBW – Association of British Science Writers).This multidisciplinary work was made in collaboration with David Chapman (Senior Lecturer inMedia Production at the University of East London). It reflects our shared interest in sound –and was built on our differing expertise. My background is in Fine Art with a particular interestin relational, participatory and site-based practice. David has a background in broadcastdocumentary, film studies and music.