The first release by Earth Monkey's spoken word sub-label Talking Monkey
A collaboration between poet Ann Wilson and Clutters Shaun Blezard for a mixed media exhibition held at The Nest in Barrow-in-Furness from May-July 2006
Ann responded in poetry to lo-fi digital photos of Barrow Island taken by Shaun. The poems were then recorded and added to a soundscape created by Shaun, incorporating field recordings of the island. Shaun also used recording of Ann singing some of the poems, recorded on her mobile phone.
The Resting Bench album includes the soundscape, the original recordings of the poems and copies of the exhibition artwork.
If you would like to remix any of The Resting Bench you can - all the original sound files are now hosted by the internet archive at The Resting Bench Remix Project - If you want to contribute to volume 2 just email your finished remix to remix@earthmp.com in high bit rate mp3....If you want to hear what other people have done check out....
The Resting Bench Remix Project - Volume 1 An amazing 30 reworkings of The Resting Bench tracks from artists based all over the globe, some are old Monkey favourites but a great deal of them are new to EMP.
From cool Hip Hop to all out sonic attack its an eclectic bag of fantastic remixes that show just how far you can re-mould without just taking the original track and sticking a Kick Drum under it.
The Resting Bench Remix Project has been supported by Awards For All & Cumbria County Council as part of Monkey Noises, our education programme
Clutter works with a mixture of found sounds/field recordings and traditional instruments to produce highly textured soundscapes which drift in and out of focus. Sometimes they float beautifully near dub and dance other times they rattle your head. At all times clutter produces works of excellence.
Clutter is the brainchild of audio/visual artist shaun blezard who has produced music for film, theatre, dance and art installations.
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