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Sounding Nature: The natural world in sound is the latest global collaboration project by Stuart Fowkes’ Cities & Memory.

“The sounds have been reimagined by 250 artists to reflect upon the damage being done to our natural world by human-generated sounds”

Interview with Stuart on BBC Radio London with Vanessa Feltz.

Review on The Quietus.

Review on A Closer Listen.

(Will update list as the appear online)

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‘The Lost Brothers Of Saco Do Céu’ – Jason Lee

‘Dawn: The tail end of a storm. Two brothers wash ashore. One died a couple of days before. They enter a village.’

‘The Lost Brothers Of Saco Do Céu’ is my reimaging of Tilla Martin’s orignal recording made in Saco do Céu, Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Bamboos and their leaves in the wind of a tropical forest.

My response raises up from seafaring myths and legends, storms and song, made with field recordings from the Beara and Mizen Peninsulas, West Cork, Ireland.

You can go directly to Tilla Martins and my response by typing Ilha Grande in the Sound Search box as seen below. Category ‘Forests‘

Or stumble upon it by Play A Random Sound

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Based On Real Events is my next exhibition in the making. Paintings, photographs, film and sound recordings are going in to this one. It’s expensive, by my own choice, I’ve found a delicate balance within subsistence, going without to go forward. If you want to or can help out. Truly grateful via PayPal. Include your address and I’ll send you on a little rarity.

Any or all above appreciated.

Thank you. X

August 14, 2018September 21, 2018

The Cork & Kerry Mountains

Sea To Summit – Carrauntoohill and other outings.

My right knee has been a problem for a long time, some days too long, my left knee compensates. This is how our bodies work. I remember clearly the first time I ran the distance of a marathon. And I remember the time I had to stop. So this was always going to be a bit of a challenge.

Robert Macfarlane – “The undiscovered country of nearby” and from photographer Rob Hudson: “During my whole life as a landscape photographer I’ve rarely stretched beyond 30 miles from home… the power of the local environment resides not in how near it is to us, but in how close we are to it… it is the repeated visits that provide the insights, and the new ways of seeing and saying that I crave.”

Turns out, Carrauntoohill is, in walking time, a twenty four hour walk from here, 92.5 km / 57.5 miles. Longest walk I’ve done to date is 72 km / 45 miles London to Brighton, fifteen hours walking time, I stopped every three hours for a half hour break. I took the train back.

Is a two day walk considered ‘undiscovered country of nearby’?

Carrying what I need, to get by or at worse, survive a few hours, to work, to keep moving. The rolling stone, the swagman, the wanderer, the refugee, the pilgrim, the day tripper, the long distance runner.

One foot in front of the other, not a stride, but a shuffle.

Trails made by thousands before us, some of those become roads and boreens.

Beaten tracks.

A walk in the park for some, an adventure for others, chalk it down or tick it off a list, part of a training or fitness regime for others.

The ‘extremes’ of weather, storms and surges revealing shipwrecks and sunken forests, the dry spell we’ve had revealing this.

Sunset over Beara from the Mizen Peninsula.

A days later we went over to Beara and camped on a hillside looking back this way. This next iPhone photo was taken at the Dzogchen Beara look back to the day before.

And got this view of the Skelligs on the way up to Knockoura, via Alihees.

There’s also the report of an earthquake in Mexico revealing a great pyramid structure beneath an know and studied pyramid. A global lost and found.

The Butter Road

While supermarkets are individually wrapping pastries in plastic, I walked past a boat on a hill side.

The Secret Location

The clear water at my favourite ocean swimming spot. There was a time I would come here alone or with the dogs and go diving.

The Black Valley

Cover Photo: From Barley Lake, Glengariff.

It took a little a week for my right knee to recover from climbing Carrauntoohill, and by recover I mean return to it’s daily ache.

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March 21, 2018September 21, 2018

The Interference

I thought these photos were lost for good. It wasn’t a good feeling. I was beginning to accept it.

New soundscape / video ‘The Interference’ will be released in The B.o.R.e. Saloon 31 March 2018.

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A sequenced 60+ photos, a portrait, made the dawn after a twelve hour tête-à-tête, on the 11 / 11 / 07, with the legendary Fergus O’Farrell / Interference with a new soundscape, built from field recordings.

Three years ago I thought these photos were lost for good when an OS update locked me out of an encrypted hard drive. I thought the drive had been corrupted.

The B.o.R.e. Saloon this way.

There’sa post up now with a more on these photos.

‘The Interference’ will be released in The B.o.R.e. Saloon 31 March 2018.

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March 9, 2018September 21, 2018

The Bench & Other Tales

February I was on the road a good bit.

February also ended with an unusual, for here, covering of snow.

After I released a soundscape piece and other releated tales of how it came about, the places I visited, I welcomed new visitors to The B.o.R.e. Saloon blog. Great to have a few new visitors. Thank you.

Inside there’s a free download of the sound piece. Or listen to it with a simple video piece. There are drawings, photographs and an introduction to a new painting in progess – The Dawn Portrait (a work in progress). Sign up and get access here (see final welcome email).

There’s also a sketch I made while listening to the radio and the two cyanotypes I made under the winter sun dodging rain and storms.

One of the cyanotypes will feature in in the closing credits of a new documentary – Something Left Behind: The Wedding Present due for release later this year.

February was a good month foraging and collecting sounds, photos and words.

Slowly, slowly.

The snow, The Beast From The East, was an added feast.

I aslo managed to catch and photograph some great gigs, This Is The Kit, Anna Mitchell, INNI-K, for The Thin Air Magazine go check them out live or get hold of their albums via the usual channels.

The Bench.

The Bench is finding it’s way in to being a new piece of work. It’s on one of my walks.

May be it’s nothing more than that for now, a place to visit, a place to stop and watch the sun rise or take a nap. You can visit Ballydehob and check it out for yourself. It might be nothing or it might be what it, The Bench, the setting, suggests.

So far I’ve made some photos at different times of the day. I’m just going to put them up in The B.o.R.e. Saloon see what comes out. It’s where I was sitting one morning thinking about Photoperiodism, photoperiodism being the response of an organism to seasonal changes in day length.

Thanks for stopping by.

Jason Lee.

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February 4, 2018September 21, 2018

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

New Post Up On The B.o.R.e. Saloon…

‘A rolling stone gathers no moss’ a proverb repeatedly turned on it’s head.

While writing this I heard news of Dennis Edwards’ passing.

“Papa was a rollin’ stone. Wherever he laid his hat was his home. And when he died All he left us was alone”

“A vagabond, roamer, wanderer, street-walker, highway-beater; a rolling stone, one that does nought but runne here and there, trot up and downe, rogue all the country over.”

転がる石に苔むさず (‘Korogaru ishi ni koke musazu’).

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February 2, 2018September 21, 2018

The Borecode

The Borecode / Groundhog Day – ‘There are no short cuts.’

Boredom gets a bad rap. Iggy laid it out in ‘I’m bored’, money + power (real or perceived) + boredom and we see, then as today, boredom in those tiny hands, a destructive force.

But there’s another function of boredom. See Austin Kleon’s appraisal of Groundhog Day at the end.

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According to BBC News, boredom “…can be a dangerous and disruptive state of mind that damages your health”; yet research “…suggest[s] that without boredom we couldn’t achieve our creative feats.” – via Wikiped ia

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I’m bored – Iggy Pop on the Old Grey Whistle Test.

“I’m bored.

I’m the chairman of the board.

I’m a Lincoln monologue, I’m livin’ like a God,

I’m bored.

I bore myself to sleep at night, I bore myself in broad daylight, ’cause I’m bored.

Just another slimy bore.

I’m free to bore my well-bought friends,

And spend my cash until the end,

’cause I’m bored!

I’m bored!

I’m the chairman of the board.

I’m sick.

I’m sick of all my kicks.

I’m sick of all the stiffs, I’m sick of all the dips, I’m bored.

I bore myself to sleep at night, I bore myself in broad daylight,

’cause I’m bored!

I’m bored!

Just another dirty bore!

Alright now,…”

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Waiting Room – Fugazi (Live / Italy 1999)

“I am a patient boy

I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait

My time is like water down a drain

Everybody’s moving,

Everybody’s moving, moving, moving, moving

Please don’t leave me to remain

I’m in the waiting room, I don’t want the news

I cannot use it

I don’t want the news

I won’t live by it

Sitting outside of town

Everybody’s always down

Tell me why?

Because, they can’t get up

Ah, come on and get up

Come on and get up

But I don’t sit idly by

I’m planning a big surprise

I’m gonna fight for what I wanna be

And I won’t make the same mistakes (’cause I know)

Because I know how much time that wastes (and function)

Function is the key

I’m in the waiting room, I don’t want the news

I cannot use it

I don’t…”

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Hard to choose one quote from Austin Kleon’s post on – Want to be an artist? Watch Groundhog Day

“Now, it might seem like a stretch, but I really think the best thing you can do as an artist or a creative person is pretend you’re Phil Connors in Groundhog Day: there’s no tomorrow, there’s no chance of success, there’s no chance of failure, there’s just the day, and what you can do with it.”

Watch: Groundhog Day – Everyday in one cut by Neil Fennell

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“Sonnt sich der Dachs in der Lichtmeßwoche, so geht er auf vier Wochen wieder zu Loche”

Based On Real Events – The B.o.R.e. Saloon