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Soundscape Working with the historic archive VOICES FROM A DISUSED QUARRY and sounds from the CAT site Glenn Davidson CAT Artist in Residence April – August 2014. Sounds and films have been removed Sonics of the site. The original proposal –
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Soundscape Working with the historic archive VOICES FROM A DISUSED QUARRY and sounds from the CAT site Glenn Davidson CAT Artist in Residence April – August 2014 Sounds and films have been removed Sonics of the site
The original proposal – spatialising the archive – Voices from a disused quarry. Sounds appear out of places on site connecting archive materials
Sonic site map of the quarry origins of CAT Reservoir Lower quarry Upper quarry Quarry tunnel
Extending the Soundscape to full on-line site map. With aerial movie connecting each node Planned for 31st July Developed from an original site map acquired from John Urry
Extending the Soundscape to full on-line site map. Adding archive images at nodes creating new meaning …
Voices from a disused quarry Rod James Mark Matthews Figure(s) – become sound marks like landmarks Ground – background sounds Field – the site
conquest of early days the establishment of command and comrades battle of the terrain. the heroic act…
Working with this this archive image Artists are of called upon to render in marble and bronze the nation’s remembrance.. WW I and II and other wars: e.g. George Frampton, Albert Toft, Goscombe John, C.S. Jagger, Gilbert Ledward, Derwent Wood, Alexander Carrick, Walter Marsden, Louis Roslyn and many more.
Ww2 Albert ToftOldham, Greater Manchester Date Design 1919-23Bronze group of five soldiers in full equipment climbing out of a dugout and launching an attack. Surmounted by standing figure. The whole on a rectangular base which serves to house books containing the roll of honour of the 10th and 24th Battalions, Manchester Regiment.
Goscombe John designed 'The Response 1914' as a narrative sculpture depicting soldiers marching off to war watched by an angel while women and children bid them farewell.
Sculptural group Building City Defences in front of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad
Joe Rosenthal photo journalist image of Marines of the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Division raising the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, on February 23, 1945 WW2
Happy 40th CAT Glenn Davidson Artstation : Iwa Jima Quarry (2014)