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Continuing along a thread, wandering and considering of unmediated spaces (see here)…

In previous notes and scribings on the Airwaves set of Audiological Transmissions I commented on how the branded detritus left behind in the land and at the site/s of sentinels / senders after the escapisms of youth caused a sense of disjuncture, a sense that it does not belong here, that it is other…

he reason for this may well in part connect with such places and indeed non-urban spaces as being less mediated, of their being less unwanted input, fewer mechanical eyes, fewer advertisment implorings and instructions…

On the roads that lead to and around one particular standing of sentinels / senders that as I have previously mentioned, was one of the wellsprings for the weavings of Airwaves, their is a sense, just around the fringes of consciousness of stepping away from the regimentations of society.

Here and there alongs such routes our tarmacadam pavings are giving way to nature, the lands gardenry has begun to repopulate the bitumen; take an exploratory wrong turn and roads can fade away to nothing and become but rough soil paths, you can count the number of automobiles that pass you on considerably less than one hand for a number of miles and the land retains its wintery covering when elsewhere all is returned to the norm.

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Rebroadcast:

Notes and Scribings on Airwaves: Songs From The Sentinels;
A study of the tales told/required to be told by the sentinels/senders that stand atop the land; a gathering of scattered signals plucked from the ether, cryptograms that wander amongst the airwaves, fading, tired and garbled messages which have journeyed from nearby or who knows where…

The Airwaves set of audiological constructs are an exploration that begins with and via silent but ever chattering broadcast towers; their transmissions and sometimes secrets – the songs they weave from their own particular language and emanations.

These stilled, quietly brooding sentinels/senders are part of a network of threads, both corporeal and those less tangible, carrying on their shoulders the weight and responsibilities of passing forward those innumerable stories; of joy, day-to-day life, institutional watchfulness, our entertainments or in conclusion harbingers of storms sent from our own hands.

Airwaves harvests, weaves with and recasts the transmissions found amongst the gossamer strands of that network, intertwining these with and through the medium of cathodic reverberations/mechanisms while also taking ministrations from the wellsprings and flows of an otherly pastoralism, travelling through and amongst the brambled flipside of an Arcadian idyll and the subcultural undergrowth of the wald.

The resulting work, though drawn in part from the beauty and bounty of the landscape wherein these sentinels stand, seems to often summon unbidden some sense of loss, of the ghosts and fractures of a landscape and psyche that still contains the echoes and fragments of cold conflicts and end of days once planned for by national behemoths and those who stood beside them.

Further Airwaves related notes and scribings can be found at our main home in the ether:
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