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This track is panned for a spatial effect, best heard on stereo speakers arranged to face each other with as big a gap between as possible, or on stereo headphones.

Voices: Ellen Southern and Chloé Turpin

This audio was made on the first Site Singing field trip where I took a fellow singer along with me. Having made every field trip solo until now, it felt a radical departure, and a little like introducing one friend, the singer Chloé Turpin, to another friend, Over Bridge.

I let her choose which site we should visit and she chose Over Bridge, just outside Gloucester. For this recording, we stood under the modern bridge built alongside the abandoned Victorian stone bridge. We had 1 hand held field recorder each, and this audio is panned left and right to give a spatial effect to the combining sounds.

For this recording, we stood under the modern bridge built in the 1970's alongside the abandoned Victorian stone bridge. We had one hand held field recorder each, and this audio is panned left and right to give a spatial effect to the combining sounds.

Careful listening reveals the trembling of the metal on the road bridge caused by the cars and trucks over heard. I remember how the different size and weight of the vehicle made a different pitch of sound, and different accompanying textures. As mentioned above, this is a very multi-layered site, sonically speaking. There is a constant hum of distant cars, like an ambient drone, together with immediate cars and trucks over head which cause a whooshing and click click sound. It was interesting to listen back and see this reflected in the sounds we chose to make. There is also birdsong from the surrounding trees and bushes, rather neglected and weed ridden. A kind of desolate space, which also somehow feels a bit secret and illicit through its abandonment.

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This track is panned for a spatial effect, best heard on stereo speakers arranged to face each other with as big a gap between as possible, or on stereo headphones.

Voices: Ellen Southern and Chloé Turpin

This audio was made on the first Site Singing field trip where I took a fellow singer along with me. Having made every field trip solo until now, it felt a radical departure, and a little like introducing one friend, the singer Chloé Turpin, to another friend, Over Bridge.

I let her choose which site we should visit and she chose Over Bridge, just outside Gloucester. For this recording, we stood under the modern bridge built alongside the abandoned Victorian stone bridge. We had 1 hand held field recorder each, and this audio is panned left and right to give a spatial effect to the combining sounds.

Careful listening reveals the trembling of the metal on the bridge caused by the cars over heard. This is a very multi-layered site, sonically speaking. There is a constant hum of distant cars, like an ambient drone, together with immediate cars and trucks over head which cause a whooshing and click click sound. There is also birdsong from the surrounding trees and bushes, rather neglected and weed ridden. A kind of desolate space, which also somehow feels a bit secret and illicit through its abandonment.