A Rural Idyll
In the Forest Garden
Inner Landscapes
Absent Presence
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1. Wandering 05.11
2. Bittersweet 03.16
3. Shared shadow 07.19
4. Dagian 09.49
5. Absence 06.05
6. Inside out 02.50
“Ephemeral Things is a collection of six compositions. Melody has been found within layers of recording and editing where my own vocals or instruments are interwoven with gathered field recordings which shift in and out of ‘beating’ dissonance while curious interjections and mumblings of the (in)audible pause time.”
This is a landscape of introspection altering the sensation of time, exploring minimal shifts in pitch, inviting intent focus on the way each track unfolds. Intimate, quiet, slow and softly shimmering. The context is removed to immerse the listener in a place-less drift where there is a sense of entering into another world; holding the moment before it slips away.
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© Sophie Standford, 2025
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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1. Sleep Wake 02.52
2. Are you sitting comfortably? 01.40
3. Frustration 02.21
4. Fragility 06.10
5. Unsettling 02.30
6. Interruptions 09.57
7. Disarray 00.31
8. Defeat 04.50
9. Distraction 06.44
'belonging to tomorrow'
...to procrastinate is to delay
or postpone action;
to put off doing something,
intentionally: the temptation will be
to procrastinate until
the power struggle plays itself out...
/prə(ʊ)ˈkrastɪneɪt/ expresses an impotence and utter frustration, reflecting a world of apathy and procrastination, that seems not to care.
© Sophie Standford, 2022
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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1. Bees nest 12.25
2. The caged and the free 13.18
3. Barley field sound walk 04.50
4. Bird bath 09.30
5. Pond in Spring 10.09
6. Sound walk to the research station 06.35
7. Fallen orchard apple 11.45
8. Barbed wire field 03.27
9. Pig farming 05.33
10. House flies 09.20
11. Chainlink perimeter 11.20
12. Rat tail lavae 08.13
13. Sugarbeet campaign 03.29
14. Building new poultry units 07.44
15. Black ants 05.55
A project of embodied listening, as absent presence, to places of increasing marginalisation, where the uncompromising, non-negotiable ‘rural’ and industrial simultaneously intersect and elide; unearthing the inaudible, unnoticed, unremarkable, or inescapable in a Suffolk landscape. More info
‘…to listen is to lean in, softly, with a willingness to be changed by what we hear.’ David Abram.
© Sophie Standford, 2022-2025 ongoing
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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1. | Now He is Gone 07:21 |
© Sophie Standford, 2022
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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1. Eavesdropper on a conversation of rhythms 02.59
A conversation of rhythms drawn into being from the forest garden.
© Sophie Standford, 2023
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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1. The wind and the rain 13.13
2. Hiding 03.58
3. Wild on Ben Gulabin 16.57
4. Restless 09.44
5. Discarded 07.41
6. Invisible 02.06
A collection of field recordings gathered on residence at Murmuration #3 - Species, Glenshee, Scotland, June 2022.
© Sophie Standford, 2022
Sound and Moving Image Collection, British Library
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