What's Hidden in The
Hills?
PRESS
RELEASE
LAND BONE STONE APPS 1-3
Launched
for July 18th World Sound Listening Days
"For nearly five millennia, from the Neolithic through the Bronze Age to
the beginnings of the Iron Age, from 4000 years before the birth of Christ to
800 years after, the people of this island created landscapes of massive
earthworks, timber and stone. Along what is now known as the South Dorset
Ridgeway, a ‘Ritual Landscape’ or ‘Grand Necropolis’ contains over 500 barrows,
henges and causeways in an area between West Bexington in the West to Osmington
in the East.
What histories, what stories would these stones, and ancient barrows tell
us if they could talk? What legends, fairy tales, local myths and oral
histories have been woven into and around the landscape? What natural and
created sounds can be heard high on the skyline underground, along footpaths,
ancient tracks, and whispering woodlands?
In a ground-breaking new project in partnership with the South Dorset
Landscape Partnership known as The Land of Bone and Stone ( lead by the Dorset
AONB,) an App has been developed which allows you to experience this universe
for yourself! SATSYMPH have laid out a
series of sound-pools in 7 evocative locations along the rolling South Dorset
Ridgeway. Access the sound-pools by downloading an app onto your smartphone,
plus background maps online, and head out to any of the 7 locations. Once
there, open the app, plug your headphones in and wander. Your smartphone
automatically senses the sound-hotspots through GPS and opens out the sound
experience.
Land Bone Stone Apps 1-3 were made by the 3-man artistic collective
SATSYMPH working with DIVAcontemporary, Sir
John Colfox
School (Bridport), Beaminster School ,
Weymouth College
and Dorset Studio
School , InsideOut Dorset, Artmusic , Frances
Aitken and members of the public.
James Sharpe South Dorset Ridgeway
Landscape Partnership Manager says:
We are delighted to have brought
together such a unique project. We feel it takes the user through a one off
experience that pulls together heritage, culture and archaeology that brings
the landscape alive in a completely different way. It's not a walking trail but
an almost theatrical experience. Engaging the community, folklore and oral
tradition of the area and the vibrant history of the Ridgeway, all set before
time, deeply hidden in the hills.
The audio-app uses your phone’s GPS and will only play in the given
locations: at and around the Grey Mare and her Colts Neolithic long barrow,
White Hill Plantation area, Chapel Coppice above Abbotsbury; at and around the
Hardy Monument and Bronkham Barrows; Kingston-Russell stone circle; and
Culliford Tree Barrow.
You have to go there to hear it, you can’t hear it anywhere else! No need
for a phone signal though, – the audio-app uses your phone’s GPS!"
Land Bone
Stone Apps 1-3 can be downloaded from
http://satsymph.co.uk/projects-and-events/interpretation/southdorsetridgeway with links to Google Play and App Store etc.
http://satsymph.co.uk/projects-and-events/interpretation/southdorsetridgeway with links to Google Play and App Store etc.
For more
information contact: James Sharpe Landscape Partnership Manager, South Dorset
Ridgeway.
http://www.dorsetaonb.org.uk/sdr-news/1225-sdr-whats-hidden-in-the-hills
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