I decided to do a first field recording trip around the Thames near my flat before I make bigger travels into other areas and use better equipment. Consider this an experiment and a test run. I am not sure what physical form my protect 2 will take but I am sure it will explore the themes from my dissertation, field recordings, acoustic ecology, can the benefits of listening to field recordings promote environmental change?
I took my phone, as I was told that my phone is a great tool for field recording, and wrote what I could hear. Inspired by Angus Carlyle and his lecture at UAL where he spoke about field notes as a more eco way of field recording, I thought why not do both?
I walked and cycled along the Thames until I came to this disused pier, I could hear the pier screech under the rough river splashing against it. I wrote some field notes.
“The river Thames was frothing,
The ancient dock was decayed and squeaking as the waves and current bashed against its metal base.
Squeaks that sounded like screams and quivers.”
I then recorded the audio. Found a closeby record shop and bought field recordings on vinyl of birds and savannas from Africa. I think my interests will develop and I’ll perhaps create something with the recordings I took today as an exercise of what I could do?