SOUNDLINES
Soundlines is the new Strata Collective project based in North Somerset, funded by Awards For All and South West Screen.
Working with a range of partners
including the eShed, Pervasive
Media Studio, Worle
Community School and it’s partner Primaries, animator Dane
Watkins, and Count
Me In, Strata artists will find new ways of telling stories, connecting
people with the living landscape, uncovering shared and personal journeys
through familiar places.
Young people will engage in a dynamic process of engagement with their local
landscape, through a combination of their own responses and innovative new
media.
Soundlines focuses on the historic
landscape of Sand Point - a finger of the Mendips which divides the Severn
Estuary from the Bristol Channel, where spectacular views can be had out to
sea and across to the Welsh hills. The project will deliver active learning
through a mixture of innovative ‘soundline’ walks on the hilltop
and specialist training in new skills - film, animation, music, mediascape.
Students will visit the hilltop and then use their impressions to create animations
and music. The music will be used for a site-specific sound mediascape walk
(triggered by satellite, played on hand-held computers) – each young
person creating a new composition using pre-recorded sounds they have created
themselves. Participants' walks create animated 'traces' and compositions
which will be recorded & published on a dedicated website - a lasting
gallery of short films.
A combination of filmed response to the landscape, its history, myths and imaginings, and animated soundline walks will come together to make a film based ‘Sand Point’ mediascape accessible to the local community.
Young volunteers from the eShed will produce a short documentary film capturing the experience, learning and ambience of the live events for a shared community launch.
Strata Collective intend Soundlines
to be much more than a community learning project – we want more people
getting out, climbing up on to Sand Point, being inspired by new ways of accessing
and seeing the layers of the land.
MORE INFORMATION
If you'd like to know more about this exciting project, please contact
us for further information.
Follow the process on our blog.