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Sound Environments 2: Woodlands

by Stuart Chalmers

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To wander through a remote wood at dusk in solitude, surrounded by a multitude of entangled growths and dense shadows is to get close to the feeling of mystery and enchantment the early forests and woodlands inspired.
Forests and humankind have had a long and intertwined history. They provide us with important resources such as fuel, timber and food, as well as helping us breathe on planet earth.
Woodlands are theatres for folk tales, myths and magical events. These take place in the depths of a wild wood, far from where people normally venture. The Grimms fairy tales set in the enchanted black forest of Germany, are where magical creatures appear or strange transformations take place. Faeries, elves, fauns, nymphs were at home among the trees or were the actual tree. Pan haunted wild and mountainous forests, the Geni or spirit of the forest lived in an old tree
and was thought to be heard in the rustle of leaves or murmurs of the breeze. Witches carried out their rites next to old trees and would gather in groups on special festive days in celebration.
They can be places of worship and sites of sacred reverance. In the past Druids and other nature based religions would make bloody sacrifices to their gods and rites were carried out upon altars situated in the depths of the forest. North American Indians venerate certain forests as sacred and in Japan Shinto shrines are situated within old sacred groves.
Woodlands are places of meditation and contemplation. The Buddha would spend many hours alone meditating and it was here he became enlightened while sitting under the Fig (Bodhi) tree. In Burma Buddhist temples are usually surrounded by trees because of this significance.

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released December 14, 2018

Recorded around the woodlands and forests of Yorkshire
and Cumbria, this release is inspired by the myths, folklore, rituals and
works of art created within these natural wonders.
This music attempts to connect with the tales of mystery and enchantment, with our ancestors veneration of nature as well as with the landscape itself by giving voice to the physical materials found here. My hope was to experience the woods with fresh ears/eyes, using sound as a way to communicate this.

Stuart Chalmers :
Improvised, recorded and edited/processed: Summer- Autumn 2018. Swarmandal, drums, slate xylophone, oak woodsticks, bones, pine cones, seed rattles, beech nuts, metal fence, bamboo, stone percussion, water pipe, discarded junk piano, field recordings.

Please listen with headphones to get all the panning effects.

These recordings were made in the following places:
Guisecliff wood, High wood, Fish pond wood, Timble Ings, Catton wood, Chevin forest, Dearncomb wood, Cam wood, Cumwhitton moss, Lazencastle wood.

Also in an effort to protect and give something back to these places,
half of all sales of the release will go to the Woodland Trust. Several of the woods i recorded in are maintained by them and its important we preserve them.
www.woodlandtrust.org.uk

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Stuart Chalmers Kenilworth, UK

EXPLORING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENT, THE IMAGINATION AND A SENSE OF SELF.

DISCOVERING ALTERED PERCEPTIONS AND ALTERNATIVE VIEWS OF REALITY.


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