SOUNDWORKS
This project has produced some exciting audio soundworks for the valley of the River Ancholme, North Lincolnshire. These have been conceived and written by Mike Pearson, composed by John Hardy, co-composed by Hugh Fowler. Carrlands is available at www.carrlands.org.uk as twelve separate MP3 files for download: to access at home, or take to the site where you become both listener and participant in a new form of site-specific performance.
All photographs © M Pearson
Carrlands
Full title:
Carrlands: mediated manifestations of site-specific performance in the Ancholme Valley, North Lincolnshire
Duration: Launched October 2006 until October 2007
Principle Investigator: Professor Mike Pearson
Higher Education Institution:
Aberystwyth University
Contact information: Tel:
++44 (0) 1970-621506
or email: mip@aber.ac.uk
Project web page: www.carrlands.org.uk
Aims and Objectives
The aim of Carrlands is to create a series of related site-specific performances over a period of twelve months, for three locations in the agricultural valley of the river Ancholme in North Lincolnshire . Such performances represent both an innovative mode of enquiry and a research output, within the field of Performance Studies...
For more details please go to the project summary document 
Progress and Highlights
Highlights of the research have included:
a] day-long investigative field trips to North Lincolnshire – including interviews - with geographers Profs Steve Daniels and David Matless (Nottingham) and archaeologist Prof John Barrett ( Sheffield )
b] interviews with older local inhabitants who remember the nature of the landscape prior to the Second World War
c] collaboration with local history groups
d] long-term collaboration with professional composer John Hardy and sound engineer Hugh Fowler to create the soundworks in a process involving a number of orchestral musicians and application of advanced studio technologies. These have been published on the project website www.carrlands.org.uk
e] Several conference presentations listed below:
• Pearson, M. 2007‘ Carrlands ', Triangle History Group, Waddingham (guest presentation)
• Pearson, M. 2007 ‘ Carrlands ', Hibaldstow History Group, Hibaldstow (guest presentation)
•Pearson, M. 2007 ‘ Carrlands ', Rural Art Space symposium, Shrewsbury Museum (guest presentation)
• Pearson, M. 2007 ‘ Carrlands ', Re-enchantment and Reclamation (AHRC network), Lancaster University (guest presentation)
• Pearson, M. 2007 ‘Site specific performance', University of Art and Design, Helsinki (guest presentation)
• Pearson, M. 2007 ‘We do we'r own drains', ‘Liquid Landscapes' session, Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers conference, London (session co-organiser and conference paper)
• Pearson, M. 2008 ‘ Carrlands ', Forum for Storytelling in Wales (FSW), Chapter, Cardiff (guest presentation at launch event)
• Pearson, 2008 ‘ Carrlands ', The Atrium, Glamorgan University (guest presentation)
• Pearson, M. 2008 ‘ Carrlands : chorography, landscape and performance', Performance Studies international conference, University of Copenhagen (conference paper)
• Pearson, M. 2008 ‘ Carrlands : Remote Voices; Deserted Places. Recording, writing and listening in an agricultural landscape', Place, Writing and Voice symposium, University of Plymouth (invited paper)
