Bethan Kellough - Black-east from the Crow by Stationary Travels published on 2019-09-23T10:00:20Z "Black-east from the crow" - cold, dry east wind (Galloway) / stone shed (West Cornwall) Music by Bethan Kellough Artwork by Gregory Euclide Place Language is an international non-profit compilation album project inspired by the themes found in Robert Macfarlane’s widely-acclaimed book ‘Landmarks’. In particular it focuses on the book’s extensive topographic glossaries, the “word-hoard” of depictive landscape terms gathered from 30 different languages, dialects and sub-dialects around Britain & Ireland and divided into sections by type of terrain (Flatlands, Uplands, Waterlands, Coastlands, Underlands, Northlands, Edgelands, Earthlands and Woodlands). Relying on these topograms, or “tiny place poems”, as creative prompts, Place Language seeks to both inspire a renewed interest in our surroundings and reinvigorate our appreciation for the audible textures & patterns that characterize a place in keeping with the book’s stated desire to “re-wild” our vocabulary. The collection features the work of 28 different sound-artists, field recordists, and musicians from around the globe each of whom selected a Landmarks topogram and recorded an impression of it thus adding rich new aspects of dimensionality through the act of sonification. These selections cover all nine of the book’s glossaries along with place-words of new coinage as prompted by the blank one which Macfarlane leaves at the end of the book for readers to fill in from their own experience. The end result is a truly global and collaborative survey of place, language, and sound. More info: stationarytravels.wordpress.com/place-language/ Genre Ambient Comment by Pre Polar great track~ 2021-05-05T18:16:48Z Comment by Toggle The Muse Brilliant 2020-05-16T13:44:41Z Comment by Toggle The Muse Beautiful transition here, felt it through my whole body 2020-05-16T13:41:07Z Comment by Softlands Lovely transitions. Great source ample to the start. 2020-05-15T17:23:08Z Comment by Ask Heroin Sally Great work! 2019-12-05T02:35:14Z