Archive Trails
In January 2011, three bold stravaigers – Alasdair Roberts, Aileen Campbell, and Drew Wright – set forth upon a twelve-week commissioning residency in The School of Scottish Studies Archives at The University of Edinburgh.
This site tracks their progress as they listen to tapes, sift through photos, conduct their own fieldwork and begin to develop new performances from their findings.
On tour October 2011!
Oct 13 : Peebles, Eastgate Arts Centre
Oct 14 : Perth Concert Hall
Oct 15 : Cupar Arts Festival
Oct 16 : Edinburgh, Scottish Storytelling Centre
Oct 17 : Aviemore, Old Bridge Inn
Oct 18 : Tobermory, An Tobar
Oct 19 : Rosehall, The Achness Hotel
Oct 23 : London, Cafe OTO
Oct 28 : Glasgow, CCA
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Aileen Campbell working on her performance and video, ‘Conversations around a song’.
The Wire shares a video of Kate Nicolson & friends singing while waulking tweed in South Uist, 1970. This clip was chosen by Aileen Campbell, who’s been circumventing the card catalogue to find domestic sounds and families singing together.
Visit the Wire’s website to hear Miss Mary Morrison singing a pibroch song followed by canntaireachd in Erisary in 1959.
Circumventing the catalogue
I was listening to a recording today and the informant was talking about how the recording makes something seem complete because its fixed. And of course she’s right, once you have a recording it can become the negative, the definitive recording and I can see why she was concerned about it. No more variations of text because they might then be seen as the ‘wrong’ version, wrongly remembered or wrongly learned. There would be less room for improvising if there was now an original. This recording was 1977, and recording was now part the home and the domestic environment.
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Private Spaces
Things are becoming clearer and my archive search task is going to be to look at the private performance spaces and their ancillary sounds embedded in the recordings…
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Approaching the Archive
I like libraries; I used to go a lot when I was really young because my aunt worked there, so I learned from an early age the etiquette of the library environment. Approaching the sound archive for the first time felt the same, and it took me all the way back to those first visits to the library…
