Listen al fresco
Presented by Sound Art Brighton
Deal Music & Arts Festival at the Captain’s Garden, 12 July 2026
Listening through headphones in natural surroundings where the sounds in your ears blend with the atmosphere you can feel, see, touch and smell.
Kersten Glandien
Nocturnal – Night Sounds in the Australian Outback
2025
This piece evokes the sound experiences of my night excursions into the Australian Outback in October 1924, accompanying the zoomusicologist Hollis Taylor on her night recording sessions of the pied butcherbird.
Concept & Script: Kersten Glandien | Recordings: Kersten Glandien & Hollis Taylor in
Alice Springs, Central Australia, October 2024. | Composition except: Hollis Taylor:
Green Park, Georgetown 2016 for bass clarinet and field recording, Ros Dunlop – bass clarinet.
From: Hollis Taylor, double album: Absolute Bird, 2017.
Produktion: Elsen Studio & Gisela Studio Berlin, 2025.
Hildegard Westerkamp
Kits Beach Soundwalk
1989
An audio exploration of small sounds that takes us from the watery shores of Kits Beach in Vancouver to the inner spaces of dreams and the imagination.
Realisation: Hildegard Westerkamp in her own studio
Premiered: March 1989 at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Luc Ferrari
Presque Rien No.1, Le Lever du Jour au Bord de la Mer
1967/1970
This seminal work is made of untreated and carefully edited environmental sounds, recording a daybreak on the coast of Croatia, in Vela Luka, July 1967. It is the first composition created using only recognisable everyday sounds.
Produced in 1970 in the studios of the Deutsche Grammophon.
