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WATSON, CHRIS - In St Cuthbert's Time

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Touch TO:89
Release Year: 2013
Note: 'A 7th Century Soundscape of Lindisfarne' - CHRIS WATSON tried to create an ambient soundscape reflecting on how it might have sounded on the 'Holy Island' of Lindisfarne during the four seasons for monks living there in 700 A.D.; listen to the hissing of ocean & wind, various seabirds and other sea animals, ocean waves ... no trace of human activities, machines, etc..; lovely idea which has been executed with great care! Comes with extensive liner-notes booklet
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"Digipak CD + 24pp booklet. Photography: Maggie Watson. Art direction & Design: Jon Wozencroft. Sound mastering by Denis Blackham, Skye. Texts by Chris Watson, Dr David Petts, Lecturer in Archaeology - Associate Director of the Institute of Mediæval and Renaissance Studies - Dept. of Archaeology, Durham University, and Dr Fiona Gameson, St Cuthbert's Society, Durham. The Sounds of Lindisfarne and the Gospels. To celebrate the exhibition of the Lindisfarne Gospels at Durham Cathedral from July to September 2013, awardÐwinning wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson has researched the sonic environment of the Holy Island as it might have been experienced by St Cuthbert in 700 A.D. 'A 7th Century Soundscape of Lindisfarne. Throughout human history artists have been influenced by their surroundings and the sounds of the landscape they inhabit. When Eadfrith, the Bishop of Lindisfarne, was writing and illustrating the Lindisfarne Gospels on that island during the late 7th C. and early 8th C. he would have been immersed in the sounds of Holy Island whilst he created this remarkable work. This production aims to reflect upon the daily and seasonal aspects of the evolving variety of ambient sounds that accompanied life and work during that period of exceptional thought and creativity'. Chris Watson - sound recordist" [label info]