Plas Bodfa Continuum

by jenn howd

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Håkan Jonsson I love this piece. Beautiful slow movements, with a great mix between "natural" sounds and instruments.

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“Plas Bodfa” is a 100-year old manor house on the isle of Anglesey in Wales UK. The soundscapes on this EP were originally designed as an immersive sound experience for the “Bodfa Continuum” art exhibition at Plas Bodfa in April 2022, curated by artist and initiator, Julie Upmeyer.

The art exhibition’s title, “Bodfa Continuum,” implies a continuous flow of time—ideas and energies from the past, carried into the present and stretched out into the future. Like time, sounds can also be malleable—stretched and compressed, layered and manipulated. The soundscapes created for this experience propose a deliberate engagement with sound and time, using Plas Bodfa’s grounds as a framework.

The sounds featured in the soundscapes are both current and historic and were constructed in the style of musique concrète, utilizing field samples recorded on the manor house’s expansive grounds in present-day, while also mixing in samples of vintage ambient sounds from various decades over the past century. Several of the soundscapes also feature samples of traditional instruments used in Welsh music such as the crwth, tin whistle, and fiddle.

Upon completion, I then mapped the soundscapes into the SonicMaps web app, creating a smart-phone-based, GPS-triggered, immersive audio experience for exhibit-goers strolling around Plas Bodfa’s North Garden, Visitor’s Garden, Wildflower Meadow, Pond, and greenhouse areas.

To experience the Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap remotely via computer, smartphone or tablet, visit:
jenniferhowd.com/plas-bodfa-continuum-sonicmap

To experience the Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap on-site, visit:
sonicmaps.xyz/player/?p=786&s=sat

For more information about Plas Bodfa and the Bodfa Continuum Art Exhibition, visit: www.plasbodfa.com/bodfa-continuum.

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released May 2, 2022

Soundscapes composed and SonicMap designed by Jennifer Howd.

Plas Bodfa field and fiddle samples improvised and recorded by Ynyr Pritchard.

Crwth samples from "Ffion Felfed" and "Gruffudd Rowland" by Cass Meurig from her album, "Crwth."

Special thanks to Julie Upmeyer for her support with on-site app testing and additional sample collection/recording.

Album art by Jennifer Howd. Photo by Jim Thomas.

Freesound.org artists/samples utilized in this project:

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243815__klankbeeld__eating-great-pond-snail-140731-0322.flac
276550__beerbelly38__spitfire-slow-oh.wav
457569__florianreichelt__peaceful-sound-of-a-herd-of-cows-in-the-swiss-alps.wav
505816__jedg__car-idle-and-turn-off-vintage-mg-convertable.wav
571632__casonika__tin-flute.wav

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