Listening Post
by Sam Jukes & Fronde Crennell
Listening Posts invites you to connect with the reserve in a deeper way.
When we exist in a place all of our senses are in play as we travel through it.
We are not alone, nor the first to have been there, we ask you to focus your senses and reflect through listening, hear the layers of sounds and the rich complexity of the reserve and observe the echoes of the past.
Media: 210x2.8cm Wooden posts, steel rod, gesso, acrylic paint, the environment. Dimensions variable.
Listening Hides
by Sam Jukes
The listening hides provide a context to listen to the prepared sound work ‘Hide music’ as well as to the world surrounding it.
The hides fuse the language of scientific and analytical equipment used to observe nature, with references to minimalism and also the cages used in Francis Bacons compositions which he used to focus the viewers attentions.
The prepared soundscape in ‘Hide music” aims to appreciate the entangled, interlaced and beautiful chaos of nature through an immersive listening experience contextualised from within the hide.
Ascension
by Andy Parker
“A few years back, as Winter was drawing in, I thought I’d head south to find Swallows. I skitted across the cooling countryside, drawn by sonar to Portland Harbour. The masts of Rampisham described a 300ft elevation in the distance; a shadow of a shrinking family and a long wave goodbye. Flap, Flap.”
Andy Parker’s short text Ascension begins with recollections of life in a naval city, and takes a journey up and out from the south coast, down into the South Atlantic. Drawing on the relationship between the Transmitting Station at Rampisham Down with the repeater station on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Parker was interested in mirroring the similar journey undertaken by birds migrating between the UK and Africa. With reference to local and global histories (and other invisible hazards), he charts an increasingly rich journey of sound, light, time and birds which draws the reader into a tangled hysteria of invisible, abstract connections.
Wander with Wallbridge (Wonder & Cows)
by Fronde Crennell and Sam Jukes
An Ambient reflection of a lifetime farming the land, Hooke, Springtime 2025.
The sound of a persons voice carries the energy of sound into the landscape. There it stays, reverberating. As the energy of the land becomes the person. The echoes of a lifetime continue if you listen deeply.
With many thanks to Senior Wallbridge and family.
Hooke River
Dreaming
By Sam Jukes
Made from field recording of the River Hooke and its tributaries, Hooke River Dreaming is a mediative journey or aquatic sonicity from the chalk springs of Toller Whelm through to the babbling waters at Kingcombe.
Best listened to through headphones on the riverbank.
Hooke River Dreaming, 2025
7 minutes 9 Seconds Audio
10 minutes 30 seconds with Brian
by Fronde Crennell
An Ambient Ornithological Account recorded live in Kingcombe bird hide Spring 2025.
Sitting in the bird hide with Brian we were taken to a timeless space of mindful listening and observation. You are invited to join us here.
"You may find you never ever see them... but you can hear them."
This piece is made in celebration of deep listening, bird song and celebration of place where due to historic farming methods the land maintained its vast biodiversity... And so then to notice we will miss them if their gone.
With many thanks to Brian King and the Kingcombe Singer, whose name I did not write down but remember the origins of which, were Irish.
Sound Silos
by Sam Jukes
Silos is a 10 channel sound installation with each channel having its own sculptural silo form constructed from corrugated tin or ‘wriggly tin’ as it's known locally. First show in the Arnolfini in 2024 in ‘A Weekend at Hotel Palenque’ which responded to Robert Smithson’s 1972 lecture ‘Hotel Palenque’, that pondered on time function, aesthetic and our human response. The work itself aimed to portray an understanding of or an experience of rural Britain and the Hooke Valley. The work encourages the viewer to consider their own environments as well maybe the environmental crisis and ideas around the Anthropocene. To look at the work critically we are to think about it as two elements which work together the physical and the sonic.
Midden
by Sam Jukes
Midden draws records a dump in the woods of Kingcombe where the unwanted has been left. These bottles prior to their collection lay scattered across the ground amongst the tin and plastic objects, now symbolically they echo the human trace and impact and the mapping suggestive of the flows energy within the natural world.
Dùthchas
by Fronde Crennell
'Dùthchas, connection of land, people and culture'
Constructed in 2024 from Elm and Beech Driftwood gathered from the beaches of Mull. The bench acts to conect the memories and wild places of Mull with life in Dorset.
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