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REMOTE PERFORMANCES IN NATURE AND ARCHITECTURE published by Ashgate, in association with Live Art Development Agency, October 2015. Based on a series of residencies and radio broadcasts produced by London Fieldworks in collaboration with Resonance 104.4fm, the Remote Performances project enabled twenty invited artists to consider and engage in transmissions, sound performances and dialogues on their artmaking strategies immersed in this specific rural environment of mountain, forest and river; flora and fauna. Some artists engaged in dialogue with people living and working in the area with a range of specialisms and experience in, for examples, forestry, mountain culture, wildlife, tourism, and local history. This book explores the ways in which being in the field impacts on artists and permeates through to the artworks they create. Edited by Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson and Tracey Warr, published by Ashgate in association with Live Art Development Agency with contributions from: Bram Thomas Arnold, Ruth Barker, ED Baxter, Johny Brown, Clair Chinnery, Kirsteen Davidson Kelly, Benedict Drew, Alec Finlay, Malcolm Fraser, Niall Jacobson, Goodiepal, Sarah Kenchington, London Fieldworks and Mark Vernon, Lisa O'Brien, Lee Patterson, Michael Pedersen, Geoffrey Sample, Inga Tillere, Tracey Warr and Tony White.

https://www.routledge.com

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“The Sound of Lochaber #Distillation” broadcast as part of Radiophrenia, April 15th 2014. Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – a week-long exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts.

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The Sound of Lochaber Produced by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks. ‘The Sound of Lochaber’ is a distillation of a six-part radio series by the same name originally created for ‘Remote Performances’ – a daily live broadcast on Resonance 104.4fm.

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"Who owns Scotland is by John McEwen from c.1977, the first of the land reform movement looking at landlords and estates, in an attempt to find out who actually owned the large estates of the Highlands. And in the introduction he questions whether it has been a 'gowk's errand' on the 1st April. Gowk is a northern name for cuckoo." Geoff Sample

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"Dream Isles is from 1931, one of many such 'guides' as the Highlands opened up to the motorist and became portrayed as a kind of Shangri-La." Geoff Sample

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HIGHLAND GATHERING by Kenneth Richmond–London–Geoffrey Bles–1960.

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Complete Remote Performances Broadcast Schedule Monday 25th August 2014

Complete Broadcast Schedule from 9am (timings are approximate) comprise: The Sound of Lochaber 1 - The Gathering, by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks; 9.30am Local Spot: Ingrid Henderson in conversation with Johny Brown; Geoff Sample: Mythologies 1; 11am Clair Chinnery, in conversation with Ed Baxter; 11:35am The Sound of Lochaber 2 - The Angel's Share, by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks; 12:05pm Local Spot: Tam Dean Burn in conversation with Isabel Campbell MBE, Ian McColl, and Alex Du Toit; 1:05pm Sarah Kenchington's Euphonium at Sea, preceded by an interview with the artist by Ed Baxter; 1:35pm Tony White: High Lands, performed live at Outlandia with soundscape by Johny Brown; 2:05pm The Sound of Lochaber 3 - Highland Games, by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks; 2:45pm Band of Holy Joy: The North is Another Land, performed live at Outlandia; 3pm Local Spot: Tam Dean Burn talks to Lisa O'Brien (who also reads Bram Thomas Arnold's Swearing an Oath to a Scottish Glen); 3:55pm Alec Finlay and Ken Cockburn read The Road North, live at Outlandia; 5:05pm Bram Thomas Arnold: Reading Particle Physics to a River; 5:15pm Benedict Drew: The Brave Tapes; 5:45pm The Sound of Lochaber 4 - Songlines, by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks; 6:15pm Tracey Warr and Lorna Finlayson discuss the Outlandia writers' workshop; 7.10pm Geoff Sample - Mythologies 2; 7.35pm Local Spot: Tam Dean Burn in conversation with John Hutchison MBE and Emma Nicholson (Atlas Arts), with live music by Laura Davies and Liam MacLean; 8:35pm The Sound of Lochaber 5 - The Jacobite, by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks; 9:05pm Michael Pedersen and Ziggy Campbell: Rex Everthing; 9:30pm Lee Patterson: Outlandia Soundings; 10:00pm Johny Brown: Into Outlandia, read by Tam Dean Burn; 10:55pm Ed Baxter in conversation with Miriam Iowerth and Charlie Menzies, talking about their musical collaborations with composer and pianist Kirsteen Davidson Kelly; 11:25pm Local Spot: Tam Dean Burn talks to John Ireland of Forestry Commission Scotland; 11:45pm Ceiledh Trailers live in Outlandia; 12:05am Bram Thomas Arnold: Actions For and Against Nature 3 and 4, realised in sites around Glen Nevis; 12:20am Ruth Barker: Genius Loci (Echo and Narcissus), performed live at Outlandia; 1:15am Geoff Sample: Mythologies 3; 1:45am John Ireland in conversation about hairy wood ants with Sarah Nicol; 2:05am local musicians Caitrin and Stephanie, interviewed by Johny Brown, play live in Outlandia; 2:15am Goodiepal: A Message to the International Hacker Community, performed live at Outlandia; 2:40am Tony White: Storm Bringer, performed live at Roshven, Lochaber, accompanied by Peter Lanceley (guitar); 3:05am Local Spot: Tam Dean Burn in conversation with Willie Anderson and Alex Gillespie; 4am Resonance Radio Orchestra: Second Sketch for Ascent and Descent by Ed Baxter, featuring Tam Dean Burn (voice), Ewen Campbell (whistling), Miriam Iowerth (xylophone), Peter Lanceley (guitar, voice), Charlie Menzies (fiddle), and Michael Umney (piano); 4:25am The Sound of Lochaber 6 - Distillation, by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks. Broadcast ends at c. 5am. 

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Download the image file here that will enable the decoding of Goodiepal's A MESSAGE TO THE INTERNATIONAL HACKER COMMUNITY, broadcast live from Outlandia on August 9th 2014.

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Outlandia Soundings by Lee Patterson. Spectrogram of finished audio piece for broadcast and photo of a sound recording session at Lower Falls, Glen Nevis.

Images courtesy the artist

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Remote Performances: Day 6 – Wild Radio, Sat 9 Aug, Glen Nevis

"Before the inventions and widespread use of TV and the internet, radio was the dominant mode of mass communication. Now broadcasting offers a space for performance and reflection that is archaic and yet also a future form, a potentiality, a ‘free space’ (another Goodiepal concept) for self-definition unencumbered by the conventions and assumptions of previous generations."

Extract from Tracey Warr's daily blogs

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"I am working with the footage I shot, some nice stuff, but I need to form  it into something." Benedict Drew.

Video stills courtesy the artist.

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The day after the final broadcast.

Satellite image source: Nasa Earth Observatory

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Outlandia from across the glen. Video still courtesy Benedict Drew.

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Dave John: Path Builder. Dave built the Outlandia boardwalk, 2009-10. The hut itself was constructed by Fort William builder Norman Clarke.

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THE BRAVE TAPES

THE BRAVE TAPES by Benedict Drew–broadcast from Outlandia Saturday 9 August.

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Inga Tillere from Band of Holy Joy documenting events in the Outlandia hut.