To tie in with The Golden Age of Wildlife Film Making exhibition at Newton Abbot Museum, we held two sound recording workshops and built a miniature Dartmoor in a suitcase.
Relational Recording invited adults to use a variety of microphones and devices to record the same text, an extract from Sabine Baring Gould’s Book of Dartmoor, in many different ways.
Dartmoor comprises the “forest” and the surrounding commons, as extensive together as the forest itself. “What have you got on you, little girl?” asked a good woman of a shivering child. “Please mem, first, there’s a jacket, then a gownd, and then comes Oi.” So with Dartmoor. First comes the venville parishes, next their extensive commons, and “then comes Oi,” the forest itself.
At our second session, families created original poems inspired by the exhibition, and recorded close up sounds of rocks, branches and water.