We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Stanton Drew standing stones - composite audio

by Site Singing

/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      £1.50 GBP  or more

     

about

Headphones recommended.

In December I visited Stanton Drew standing stones, just south of Bristol. Here are some photos, and a short (very windy - despite a microphone protector!) sound-sketch from Stanton Drew on a cold winters day.

See the English Heritage website for more info and directions:
www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stanton-drew-circles-and-cove/

The wind is very present in this open space, and this was why when beginning the Site Singing project, I chose sites which offered a variety of enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces – spaces that could hold, reflect or alter vocal sounds, even if just briefly. But I had the opportunity to visit Stanton Drew by car with my sister and partner, so I gladly went along as I had never actually been there, despite how close they are to Bristol.

Approaching this site through a small village and past some farm land, it emerges as others have – real but some how unbelievable. It still seems incredible that in amongst the familiar and the everyday, such a place can be found. Reaching out and touching the stones, I leaned in and sang very close to several, trying to shield my voice from exposure, shared just between the stone and myself. In such a wide-open and impressive space, this vocalising felt warm and intimate, almost child-like. It didn’t feel it needed to be much, I felt comfortable feeling small here.

The recording suffered from the exposure of the site - the wind is very dominant and I did actually get help in modifying it slightly to make it easier on the listener. Despite maybe not being a 'good' recording in some technical ways, the intimacy and quietness of the singing, the proximity of my lips and breath to the stones, is what makes this work a fond memory for me.

Read the full blog entry here:
sitesinging.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/stanton-drew-stone-circles-and-cove

credits

released February 2, 2017

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Site Singing Bristol, UK

Work in Progress / Field Recordings (all un-mastered). Use of headphones recommended.

Project blog:
sitesinging.wordpress.com

See also:
ellensouthern.bandcamp.com

Twitter: @ellen_southern
#SiteSinging

FB: @EllenSouthernVoice
... more

contact / help

Contact Site Singing

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Site Singing, you may also like: