{"id":2253,"date":"2011-04-10T19:47:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2011-04-10T19:47:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T19:47:58","slug":"colne-valley-listeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/colne-valley-listeners\/","title":{"rendered":"Colne Valley listeners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewsansom.info\/colnevalley.htm\">sound mirror installation<\/a> neat Slaithwaite in Yorkshire. Some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewsansom.info\/HCMF08\/colnevalleypictures.htm\">pictures<\/a> of it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Commissioned by the River Colne Sculpture Trail and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival<\/p>\n<p>A Sound Installation by Matthew Sansom <\/p>\n<h3>About<\/h3>\n<p>Colne Valley Listeners employs active listening, both as metaphor and as practice, to explore and enhance the relationship between the valley&#8217;s beauty and significance with people past, present and future. The project combines a sculptural installation of two acoustic mirrors at the Rotcher Picnic Site and a guided soundwalk with accompanying audio.\t <\/p>\n<p>The River Colne Acoustic Mirrors  are parabolic dishes fashioned in aluminium: one dish eavesdrops on the approach from the picnic site and the other listens out towards the trees and across the valley. Close-up, these devices focus and subtly amplify the soundscape at a focal point a short distance from the centre of the dish. Interaction with the acoustic mirrors helps direct awareness towards the surrounding soundscape, leaving a subtle perceptual imprint on the listener.\t <\/p>\n<p>The River Colne Soundwalk  explores the location of the sculptural installation. It combines material from local children&#8217;s sonic explorations of the area, sound archive material and location recordings made along the walk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sound mirror installation neat Slaithwaite in Yorkshire. Some pictures of it. Commissioned by the River Colne Sculpture Trail and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival A Sound Installation by Matthew Sansom About Colne Valley Listeners employs active listening, both as metaphor and as practice, to explore and enhance the relationship between the valley&#8217;s beauty and significance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-music","category-sound-mirrors","tag-slaithwaite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/soundmirrors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}