Constable Ambisonic

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@artscouncilengland funded project to record the locations of Constable Paintings by Stuart Bowditch 2025-26

A short series of sound pieces performed in Colchester: each artist takes a 360º spatial audio recording made at locations of 20 paintings by John Constable (recorded by Stuart Bowditch), and creates a live performance in reaction. These are intimate, immersive presentations in situ.

Constable Ambisonic@constableambisonic.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The first event in a series of six featuring newly commissioned performances by the excellent Angela Hui Wai Nok, Louise K Wilson, Kate Carr and Simon Scott. Matthew Shenton and myself kick off the proceedings at Cuckoo Farm, Colchester on 17th May X #afternoongigs #johnconstable

A poster design for a concert using Constable's The Hay Wain (with permission).

The front that is just visible in the distance over the roof tops is moving away from us. It brought a stormy shower with some thunder. In front of it was the warm air of summer and behind it, and here now, was the cooler air of #autumn. It arrived between 15:30 and 16:00 on 11th September.

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In the second of conversations here I talk to my mum to try to understand how we came to live in the semi-rural town Essex market town, and how that affected my life growing up in the 1970's and 80's, in comparison to North West London where they had moved from. soundcloud.com/stuartbowdit...

Constable Ambisonic - Perception of Landscape with Terri Bowditch

As part of the Constable Ambisonic project I want to understand how we perceive the landscape, and what did Constable and his contemporaries bring to our understanding of the natural world, and who el

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