robins around the cathedral made of the same brown – stone-dun, song-sung –
sprite as spring clouds, as the coming dusk, as the pause in the rain.
we gather for moment //  // listen, breathe, sing a note – one that tunes, one that is only ours, ‘listening out loud’ – and walk it down into the quay street alley echo.

postcards invited people to join a sound/song walk, to wander through Hereford, to listen and sing together with the sounds around them. Elena Biserna (2023) suggests that walking as drifting subverts functionalism “.. disturbing the social production of space and generating radically other forms of knowledge, interaction, presence or agency”.

on Friday 21st February in the afternoon, a group gathered - to listen, walk and sound together. this was an improvisation, a dialogue with our environment, a meeting with each other and with the sounds of the human and more-than-human world around us.

a continuous track in 13 sections was created from recordings we all made on the walk.

it can be heard here on the alula down bandcamp site.

a film was made to accompany the sound-collage. 

it can be found here on youtube. 

 

 

thanks to all those who took part in the walk, and whose voices can be heard alongside the voices of Hereford on a rainy Friday afternoon. thanks to Chris Plant and Nick MASH for projections, DJ Caddisfly & DJ markbass, Omar for reflections, & the teams at Artlandish and Weirdshire. 

Special thanks to Easter Tree singer Libertine Vale.