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Sounds of Walking Chapter 4.2.6 seven days in June sound work mp3 file

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posted on 2024-02-27, 16:22 authored by Martin Paul EcclesMartin Paul Eccles
<p dir="ltr">In June 2019 I spent just over a week around the Alaskan city of Nome on the Seward Peninsula. On each of seven consecutive days I made and recorded one walk. As with <i>begin to hear</i> this piece took an extended view of place. Each walk was across land that was socio-culturally coherent, being based in the locale of the Inupiat peoples. I wrote a series of poems for each walk (based on contemporaneous notes). For this two-hour stereo radio show, the composition was of sequential 17-minute sections of each walk which formed the basis of a stereo mixdown. The composition also featured a radio intro and outro and a recording of me reading the <i>haibun</i>; my reading of the text of the <i>haibun</i> appeared at the start of each section and the <i>haiku</i> towards the end.</p><p dir="ltr">This work is one of six selected for submission alongside my PhD thesis. Many of the other works discussed in my thesis can be found through my website ( <a href="https://martinpeccles.com/" target="_blank">https://martinpeccles.com</a> ) or Soundcloud ( <a href="https://soundcloud.com/mpeccles" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/mpeccles</a>).</p>

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