Beste Stuart Bowditch podcaster (2024)

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Your Rainbow Panorama, Århus, Denmark - 20th September 2013 8:31

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On the 19th September 2013 I had a phone call from a friend who only phones when he needs something. He's cool so usually it's a pretty good shout. He was in a spot of bother and needed a package full of art taken to a gallery for him as the package sent via courier had gone missing. Only problem was that it needed to be there tomorrow, and the gal…

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Harwich Tide Bell - 24th February 2024 10:00

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Whilst collecting sounds for my Modern Tendring Vernacular project in February 2024 I went to record the tide bell at Harwich, which I had never seen or heard before. There was a strong wind and rain but I'd timed the tide right to capture the bell, and was meeting a chap called Geoff soon, so only had one shot at recording it.…

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Ridley Road Market, Dalston - 14th February 2009 7:31

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Between 2008 and 2010 I lived in Hackney and on a cold Wednesday morning I went for a walk down Ridley Road Market in Dalston. I remember there being lots of meat, piles of pigs trotters and some strange vegetables. I loved the mixture of cultures, food, voices, accents, and music, but not so much the intensity of some of the smells. I recorded thi…

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Crane, Burnham-0n-Crouch, Essex - 17th October 2013 8:30

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In the years around 2013 I would go on regular walks with my good friend and artist Alan Hockett, exploring the darker, more mysterious corners of Essex. On this particular day we walked from Burnham-on-Crouch, along the sea wall, to the North Sea (previously called The German Ocean). Not long after setting of we came across a gorgeous but old crab…

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Hand Operated Loom, Museum Of Silk Manufacture, Nanjing, China - 7th October 2018 10:00

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During a research and development trip for the project Fabric: Silk Road (with Ruth Philo) I recorded two women working with silk on a large hand operated loom at the Museum of Silk Manufacture in Nanjing, China. Although I couldn't understand their commentary it was fascinating to watch them work together on this complicated and beautiful machine.…

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Bells, St.Nicholas Church, Canewdon, Essex - 15th September 2024 9:00

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By a strange set of circumstances I found my self sitting, quite near to the village lock-up and stocks, outside Canewdon Church on a sunny Sunday morning. The bells were ringing for quite some time but just as I was relaxing in to reverie, a couple of things happened. A light aircraft was passing over head, and whilst that's nothing new in that ar…

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Mr. G's Bingo, Leysdown-On-Sea - 31st July 2014 18:01

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Over a number of years my good friend Graham and I took regular road trips out to very uncool places, for a change of scenery, to chew the fat, to talk crap and experience underwhelming facets of life. The story of this trip is fraught with danger but one of the highlights of our trip was playing Mr G's bingo in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Shepp…

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Storm, Gelse, Zala County, Hungary - 27th August 2024 38:00

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Whilst staying with some friends in their forest retreat in Gelse, Hungary, a clap of thunder woke me up at around 5am so I recorded the storm pass over. The recorder (Sony D100) was placed just inside my door that connected to the outside terrace area.Av Stuart Bowditch

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Temple Station, London, Platform 1 - 21st January 2024 6:23

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I was on my way back from my Uncle's surprise 80th birthday party and I took a detour around the Circle Line on the London Underground, just for fun. I spent a couple of hours sitting on different platforms listening, absorbing, thinking.Av Stuart Bowditch

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Sutton Hall Railway, Sutton with Shopland, Essex - 24th June 2007 12:08

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In 2007 in was collecting sounds for a sound installation (called AWSoM) I was making with artist Damien Robinson for the Sutton-with-Shopland Music Festival. On Tabor Farm, where the music festival was to be held, is Sutton Hall Railway, a narrow gauge railway run by enthusiasts. This is a recording of my ride on one of the trains pulled by a stea…

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Middlewick Ranges, Colchester - 11th May 2024 10:00

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In early May 2024 I went on a public walk around Middlewick Ranges as part of Jane's Walk Colchester 2024. The overriding theme of the walk was to raise awareness of the flora, fauna and diversity of habitats in this area, which is currently under threat of sale by the MoD and subsequent development of housing. So to aid the campaign of the good fo…

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March for Palestine, London - 27th December 2009 10:00

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In 2009 I joined my friend, artist and activist Nicola Field on a March for Palestine through the streets of London to the Israeli embassy. Occupation persists and grows. Marches persist and grow. Hope persists and grows. Ceasefire now! XAv Stuart Bowditch

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Famous Potatoes Barn Dance, Paglesham, Essex - 16th July 2016 10:51

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In 2016 I was recording a variety of locations for the Essex Record Office Sound and Video Archive 'You Are Hear' project https://www.essexsounds.org.uk . One of the threads of interest were 'Quiet Places' so I headed out to the sea wall at Paglesham, near the final resting place of The Beagle (Darwin's Ship), next to the abandoned oyster beds, ove…

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Belchamp Brook, Essex - 16th March 2020 10:00

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A week before lockdown came in to force in the UK I recorded an interview with artist Terry Flower for the series of podcasts I did for Visit Stour Valley (available on Soundcloud and other platforms). He directed me to a lovely spot across the fields in some woods beside Belchamp Brook. I sat there for half an hour soaking up the atmosphere and co…

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Harwich High Lighthouse (Inside), Harwich, Essex - 21st February 2024 10:00

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I put a call out for sounds, or suggestions of sound, from the borough of Tendring in Essex. Geoff, a volunteer at the High Lighthouse in Harwich, agreed to let me inside to make some recordings. I meet him on a very blustery and rainy day and he kindly let me spend some time alone in the building to capture the sound of the lively weather filterin…

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Gandhi Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India - 8th January 2010 10:00

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During a trip to India in January 2010 to stay with my housemates uncle in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, I visited the Ashram in Sabarmati, one of several ashram's that Gandhi stayed at between 1917 and 1933.www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/Av Stuart Bowditch

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Wallasea Island, Essex - 26th December 2023 10:00

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It had been several years since I was on Wallasea Island, so I was pleased to be back in one of my old haunts. I went with a very good friend that I was visiting over the festive period and we decided to go and watch the sunrise over Foulness Island, which is itself somewhere I have recorded and made work. https://essexmeme.fandom.com/wiki/Essexmem…

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Park Covert, Holbrook, Suffolk - 15th November 2023 10:00

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I am pleased to be working with artist and musician Matt Shenton on his project Listening To The Landscape, that has been funded by a Arts Council England 'Develop Your Creative Practice' grant. For our first session together we spent quite some time talking about equipment and techniques for recording sound in the field, before venturing out into …

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Church Of The Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem - 2nd October 2019 9:00

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My travelling companion and I have taken to booking a few weeks away in October both as a means of extending the summer and a chance to discover somewhere new. We’ve been keen to travel to Palestine and Israel to see for our own eyes what is happening there, as well as to visit some of the holy sites associated with a variety of religions, and this…

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Bottengoms, Wormingford, Essex - 6th April 2017 46:00

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I'm chuffed to have contributed a field recording to this exhibition of large format photographs taken by the excellent Mark Edwards. Countless Edens is on until 15th October at Primeyarc in Great Yarmouth and expertly curated by originalprojects; so head on over there if you get the chance.'Countless Edens is a body of photographic work by Mark Ed…

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Sea Wall, Grays, Essex - 20th August 2014 9:46

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In August 2014 I went for a walk with artist Cathie Cox to explore the riverside environs of West Thurrock. We started at St.Clement's Church (which featured in the film Two Weddings and a Funeral) and its rather incongruous neighbour the huge Proctor and Gamble factory, and then proceeded along the sea wall amongst all of the industrial and limina…

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To Brixton (Electric Avenue) 10th December 2010 12:18

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The day before my birthday in 2010 I took the train and tube to Brixton, arriving in Electric Avenue, probably for a gig or to go dancing.Please excuse the slight wind noise on the mic.Av Stuart Bowditch

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Basilica Santa Maria Del Mar, Barcelona, Spain - 11th May 2008 14:10

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A recording made on a family holiday on 11th May 2008 to Barcelona, I walked in on a service (unknown) at the Basilica Santa Maria Del Mar,Av Stuart Bowditch

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Peterborough Station - 24th July 2008 15:00

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A recording from the archive, made on Platform 3B at Peterborough Station on 24th July 2008. I have no recollection of where I was going or what I was doing on that journey but I was waiting for a connecting train to somewhere.Av Stuart Bowditch

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Igrexa De San Tirso, Palas De Rei, Galicia, Spain - 3rd April 2023 10:00

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On the fifth day of our walk along the Camino de Santiago I went to record the bells of Igrexa De San Tirso in the small town of Palas de Rei. The plan was to record from around 7:55 until 8:05 with the church bells in the middle of the recording, a strategy I have employed for many years now. Unfortunately, although I could see the bells, they did…

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Sint Janskathedraal, Den Bosch, Netherlands - 27th May 2023 11:17

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My travelling companion and I were in Den Bosch, Netherlands, for the weekend and found St.John's Cathedral whilst wandering around. There was a service in proceedings for the celebration of Pentecost. You can hear the opening and closing of the gates on the stalls as people come to sit down, and also in the middle section of music as people get up…

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Bawdsey Ferry - 1st January 2018 10:00

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My travelling companion and I went to one of my favourite places, Shingle Street in Suffolk, for a New Years Day walk in 2018. On the way back we made a short detour to Bawdsey and waited for the ferry to return across the River Deben. There was a queue of excited passengers waiting to be picked up and some children playing the shingle beach.…

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Mortimer Street London - 23rd May 2023 10:00

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I was early for a job in Central London so was waiting on the corner of Mortimer Street and Berners Street to kill some time, or rather, make a field recording. The location of the recording is in the street, not from the vantage point of the photograph.Av Stuart Bowditch

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Chinese Landscape #3 10:00

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A recording made at Beiyuanmen Night Market, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China on Thursday 31st September 2018.Av Stuart Bowditch

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Praza Da Quintata De Vivos, Santiago de Compostela, Spain - Procession of the Holy Encounter 40:00

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At the end of my Camino journey, taking 8 days from to reach Santiago de Compostela from Sarria, I was lucky enough to find Procession of Holy Encounter in the centre of the city and followed the procession through the narrow streets for 20 minutes to the central Praza da Quintana De Vivos next to the Cathedral. I positioned myself in the middle of…

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The Bottoms, Wormingford, Essex - 11th February 2023 10:00

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Recorded in a small woodland called The Bottoms, near to St.Andrew's Church in Wormingford in north Essex. I initially went to record inside the Church but it was closed (even though the opening hours online stated otherwise) so went to sit in the woods for a while. It was quite a bit milder than recent temperatures, that made for a pleasant experi…

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Cervejaria Pireza, Rua Conselheiro Joaquim António D'Aguiar, Barreiro Portugal 5th November 2022 15:00

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Part of a series of recordings being made for the project Fonema in Barreiro, Portugal. My two week residency is part of Territory, a programme commissioned by Sluice magazine and PADA Studios, which will exhibit as part of the Lisbon Art Weekend 10-13th November 2022.I sat drinking a beer in the afternoon outside of the Cervejaria Pireza listening…

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Praia Fluvial de Alburrica - 4th November 2022 10:00

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Part of a series of recordings being made for the project Fonema in Barreiro, Portugal. My two week residency is part of Territory, a programme commissioned by Sluice magazine and PADA Studios, which will exhibit as part of the Lisbon Art Weekend 10-13th November 2022.I spent a while recording next to the River Tagus on a small spit known as Alburr…

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Foxearth Meadow - 30th April 2022 15:00

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A recording made next to the River Stour at Foxearth Meadows, Essex, on 30th April 2022 in the late afternoon. Competing with the rush hour traffic are the following birds, of which there are many during peak springtime activity.Chiffchaff, Wren, Song Thrush, Blackbird, Robin, Long-Tailed Tit, Great Tit, Nuthatch, Oystercatcher (this far inland!), …

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Ballingdon Street Allotments - 20th April 2022 30:00

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I went to the allotments to do a bit of digging, weeding and watering. Being next to Sudbury Meadows, and alongside the old railway embankment there had been lots of birds recently so I decided to make a recording and see what birds I could identify (with the excellent Merlin iPhone app). I couldn't identify them all but my knowledge of birds songs…

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MixPre - 1012 Finishing Machine Changeover 13:00

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It's been a while since we made any site visits as part of our Fabric Silk Road project but today we had an invite to record the machines, environs and personnel at Vanners Silk in Sudbury. Ciaran Roche at Vanners, one of the five working silk weaving companies found in Sudbury, saw our activities online and said that we'd be more than welcome to c…

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MixPre - 1011 Meyer Warping Machine 7:00

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It's been a while since we made any site visits as part of our Fabric Silk Road project but today we had an invite to record the machines, environs and personnel at Vanners Silk in Sudbury. Ciaran Roche at Vanners, one of the five working silk weaving companies found in Sudbury, saw our activities online and said that we'd be more than welcome to c…

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MixPre - 1008 Loom Room Ambience 3:00

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It's been a while since we made any site visits as part of our Fabric Silk Road project but today we had an invite to record the machines, environs and personnel at Vanners Silk in Sudbury. Ciaran Roche at Vanners, one of the five working silk weaving companies found in Sudbury, saw our activities online and said that we'd be more than welcome to c…

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Chinese Landscape #2 15:00

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A recording made at Yantai East Port Fish Market, Yantai, Shandong Province, China on Thursday 27th September 2018. Presented as an installation at Between Us: Biennial Conversations and Exchanges - An ongoing dialogue between artists from China and Britain. A Yantai Art Museum, China initiative with originalprojects; Great Yarmouth and University …

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Goldhanger - Joyce's Marsh - 4th June 2020 1:00:00

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Field Recording made at Joyces Marsh, Goldhanger, 4th June 2020 as part of my project Resounding, following in the footsteps of JA Baker, author of The Peregrine.Birds heard in this recording include a Skylark, Black Headed Gull, Wood Pigeon, Green Sandpiper and a Linnet. www.stuartbowditch.co.uk/resounding-344243…

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Mundon Stone Point - 28th May 2020 1:00:00

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Field Recording made at Stone Point, Mundon 28th May 2020 as part of my project Resounding, following in the footsteps of JA Baker, author of The Peregrine.www.stuartbowditch.co.uk/resounding-344243Av Stuart Bowditch

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Mundon - Brick House - 28th May 2020 1:00:00

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Field Recording made at Brick House. Mundon, 28th May 2020 as part of my project Resounding, following in the footsteps of JA Baker, author of The Peregrine.www.stuartbowditch.co.uk/resounding-344243Av Stuart Bowditch

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NHS 8pm applause - Ballingdon Street 26th March 2020 10:00

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During week 2 of the UK Covid19 Lockdown a nationwide event to show our appreciation of the efforts of the NHS staff in the front line of the battle against the virus. At 8pm on 26th March 2020 those wishing to take part we re to stand outside their front doors and applaud. Here is a recording from outside our house on Ballingdon Steet, Sudbury, Su…