Morecambe Bay: three short audio works

Cartographic Interventions: The Future Places Centre, Lancaster University

My three audio-film works were commissioned as part of the Future Places Centre Cartographic Interventions project. The goal of the Future Places Centre, Lancaster University, is to explore the use of digital technology to augment physical spaces, typically to improve health and wellbeing outcomes, focusing on Morecambe Bay.  To do this the Centre will collate data about the Bay and its population.  

My proposal was to create a soundscape of birds in the Bay and to explore the use of this as a therapeutic interface in residential care homes. Looking at how a ‘sound map’ could help people who are experiencing memory loss to re-engage with familiar settings which they can possibly no longer visit or remember. A bird ‘landscape’ of sound will have been a background to many people’s lives, their daily rituals as well as their special day trips, an experience which is often lost once lack of mobility, combined with memory loss has impacted on a life.

This project has as its focus the recreation of an embodied experience of the natural surroundings in the Bay, helping to positively affirm wellbeing and identity.

Credits

I would like to thank the RSPB Leighton Moss for their help and advice.

Sound tracks in the 3 pieces are from recordings made by myself with additional recordings provided under Creative Commons licences by xeno-canto and its contributors who are credited below:

Garden Warbler- Sylvia borin

Mathias Ritschard. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/30101

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Blackcap-Sylvia atricapilla

Mathias Ritschard. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/29723

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Bearded Tit –  Panurus biarmicus

Niels Krabbe, Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/25560

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Sand Martin – Riparia riparia

Patrik Aberg. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/27277

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Black Tailed Godwit – Limosa limosa

Patrik Aberg. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/42436

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Pied Avocet – Recurvirostra avosetta

Marco Dragonetti. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/29225

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Willow Warbler-Phylloscopus trochilus

Patrik Aberg. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/26756

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Treecreeper – Certhia familiaris

Volker Arnold. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/72675

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Eider – Somateria mollissima borealis

Ruud van Beusekom. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/57852

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Oystercatcher – Haematopus ostralegus

Patrik Aberg. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/27054

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Sandpiper – Actitis hypoleucos

Neils Krabbe. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/25127

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Red Knot – Calidris canutus

Chris Batty. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/500390

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Dunlin -Calidris alpina

Patrik Aberg. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/83894

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Lesser Black Backed Gull – Larus fuscus

Niels Krabbe. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/25542

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Redshank – Tringa totanus robusta

Ruud van Beusekom. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/57914

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Herring Gull – Larus argentatus argenteus

Stuart Fisher. Accessible at www.xeno-canto.org/25581

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