Northern Soul Awards Shortlist

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SO great news for all the crew for the production in January of Hidden at The Horsefall at 42nd Street, we have been shortlisted for the Northern Soul Awards. We are listed under fringe productions here. I am so grateful to have worked with such a great bunch of creatives, and the cast were amazing both the kids and the professional actors. It was a great experience developing the sound design for a post semi-potential-apocalyptic society; building robots to take over our caring.

We also had two great reviews written about the production so if you want a read about the full interactive experience of this play check them out. (Right Click to view)

Northern Soul Review: Hidden, The Horsfall, Ancoats, Manchester

Young carers create first major project at The Horsfall

Dawn Chorus 7th May 2017 South Walney Nature Reserve

Dawn Chorus on South Walney Nature Reserve from Linda O Keeffe on Vimeo.

As part of International Dawn Chorus Day May 7th 2017 I began a series of recorded walks starting at 4:30 this morning, through the South Walney Nature Reserve in Barrow. There are several distinct nesting sites on South Walney which means you have very different bird sounds as the dawn progresses.

I am not an ornithologist so all I can say for certain is that I have the bird sounds of Great Black-backed Gull, Lesser Black-backed Gull, Herring Gull, Greenshank, Redshank, Short-eared Owl, Eider duck, Canada Goose. The recordings were made in grassland, coastal and pond sites.

Eager ears with more knowledge than me will be able to name the other species.

Performing in Walney

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As part of world Dawn Chorus Day myself and the composer Tony Doyle created a day long workshop for attendees of the Sound Camp at South Walney Nature Reserve, organised by Octopus Collective.

In the evening we performed a new work generated by text performed by the attendees of the sound camp and collected objects.

After a brief introduction to acoustic ecology and listening methods each participant was given a listening meditation (meditation and composition). They brought this on their walks through the reserve. Later, we recorded their texts and a series of sound performances they created with materials they collected as part of the listening meditation and object collection. These were incorporated into a live coded and 3d graphic score performance, see image above.

This performance was broadcast online and performed at the London sound camp. We will have sound and images of the evenings performance to follow.