Sounds and films have been removed Sonics of the site

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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 – - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Sounds and films have been removed

Sonics of the site

Soundscape Working with the historic archive

VOICES FROM A DISUSED QUARRY and sounds from the CAT site

Glenn DavidsonCAT Artist in Residence

April – August 2014

The original proposal – spatialising the archive – Voices from a disused quarry.Sounds appear out of places on site connecting archive materials

Site recordings with A.S.

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 nodePlanned for 31st July

Developed from an original site mapacquired from

John Urry

Extending the Soundscape to full on-line site map.

Adding archive images at nodes creating new meaning …

Rod James

Mark Matthews

Voices from a disused quarry

Figure(s) – become sound marks like landmarksGround – background sounds Field – the site

conquest of early days

the heroic act…

battle of the terrain.

the establishment of command and comrades

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 Toft

Oldham, Greater Manchester

Date Design 1919-23

Bronze 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.

C.S. Jagger

Korean war memorial, Seoul

Sculptural group Building City Defences in front of the Monument to the Heroic Defenders of Leningrad

Heroic marine corps war memorial

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)