Monday 17 February 2014

Norway, Summer 2013



Towards the end of last summer I visited my friend in Norway. We went for quite a few walks in different places and I usually had at least my handheld recorder with me. The recordings which I worked with here are mainly from our walk up Kjerag to the popular tourist spot where a boulder is stuck above a massive drop.


I don't usually feel like including elements such as footsteps, breathing and so on in my recordings however for this little project I wanted to guide the listener through the landscape.


 Myself, Alex and his dog (called Skye) move across the mountain terrain and ecounter a herd of sheep moving down the valley. I wanted to jump back to Hundvag for the final section, the rising sound of the river becomes almost uncomfortable until suddenly it breaks. The setting is now a quiet woodland bridge with a stream running below, whilst engines of tankers in the port of Stavanger hum in the distance.