final comments on where we now stand and where we are going

horsemouth is back from a gig (midweek horsemouth? yes almost exactly midweek).

the line up - poet (and now published author) justin hopper, film-maker and photographer wendy pye, sound-artist and writer angus carlyle and (the real reason for horsemouth’s visit) folk singer and musician sharron kraus.


sharron has set a chapter of justin’s latest book to music - they performed an excerpt of it, synthesizer drone, bells, recorder, the singing of hal-an-tow. this was awesome (beating the last time horsemouth saw justin and folk musicians thing (at the owl service’s south london almshouse all-dayer) into a cocked hat. if laura cannell is unavailable to live soundtrack the wickerman then horsemouth would definitely consider sharron kraus. she’s playing in hereford soon (on the 22nd horsemouth believes).

angus carlyle is the co-author of in the field: the art of field recording  - he read a series of dated 100 word short essays about his running experiences on the downs from his a downland index (for the downs is our ekthen here - our particular space). sound, as he pointed out, did not feature much in these writings, because sounds of running are subsumed in the physical sensation of running itself. (in horsemouth’s experience pain).

wendy pye showed her film 6 feet from the edge (about visitors to beachy head) and photos from her beachy head project. http://www.wendypye.co.uk/ and https://wendypye.wordpress.com/

It was an event to mark the launch of Justin Hopper's book the old weird albion (penned in the margins press ).