About this project
Welcome to the Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap, an immersive soundscape experience, featuring field samples collected at Plas Bodfa that invites you to imagine the manor's rich history while strolling its sprawling grounds. (Scroll for more info).
The exhibition's title, “Plas Bodfa Continuum,” implies a continuous flow of time — ideas and energies from the past, carried into the present and stretched out into the future. Like time, sounds can also be malleable, stretched and compressed, layered and manipulated. The soundscapes created for this exhibit propose a deliberate engagement with sound and time, using Plas Bodfa’s grounds as a framework.
The sounds featured in the soundscapes are both current and historic and were constructed in the style of musique concrète, utilizing field samples recorded on the manor house’s expansive grounds, while also mixing in samples of vintage ambient sounds from various decades over the past century. Several of the soundscapes also feature samples of traditional instruments used in Welsh music such as the crwth, tin whistle, and fiddle
The Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap uses your smart phone's GPS to trigger sounds when you walk to different areas on the map, so please make sure to enable location services on your phone. For the best audio experience, listening with headphones or earbuds is recommended.
If you have any technical challenges, please see the SonicMaps troubleshooting guide and FAQ (scroll to "Player" section in FAQ).
To experience the Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap remotely via computer, smartphone or tablet, click here.
Soundscapes composed and SonicMap designed by Jennifer Howd. For updates on future work, follow Jennifer on Bandcamp and Instagram.
Plas Bodfa field and fiddle samples improvised and recorded by Ynyr Pritchard.
Crwth samples from "Ffion Felfed" and "Gruffudd Rowland" by Cass Meurig from her album, "Crwth."
Special thanks to Julie Upmeyer for her support with on-site app testing and additional sample collection/recording.
SonicMap cover art by Jennifer Howd. Photo by Jim Thomas.
Freesound.org artists/samples utilized in this project:
81188__juskiddink__strong-wind-through-leaves.wav
223563__captainvince__vintage-cadillac-muffler-turn-on-idle-off-rattle.wav
243815__klankbeeld__eating-great-pond-snail-140731-0322.flac
276550__beerbelly38__spitfire-slow-oh.wav
457569__florianreichelt__peaceful-sound-of-a-herd-of-cows-in-the-swiss-alps.wav
505816__jedg__car-idle-and-turn-off-vintage-mg-convertable.wav
571632__casonika__tin-flute.wav
The exhibition's title, “Plas Bodfa Continuum,” implies a continuous flow of time — ideas and energies from the past, carried into the present and stretched out into the future. Like time, sounds can also be malleable, stretched and compressed, layered and manipulated. The soundscapes created for this exhibit propose a deliberate engagement with sound and time, using Plas Bodfa’s grounds as a framework.
The sounds featured in the soundscapes are both current and historic and were constructed in the style of musique concrète, utilizing field samples recorded on the manor house’s expansive grounds, while also mixing in samples of vintage ambient sounds from various decades over the past century. Several of the soundscapes also feature samples of traditional instruments used in Welsh music such as the crwth, tin whistle, and fiddle
The Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap uses your smart phone's GPS to trigger sounds when you walk to different areas on the map, so please make sure to enable location services on your phone. For the best audio experience, listening with headphones or earbuds is recommended.
If you have any technical challenges, please see the SonicMaps troubleshooting guide and FAQ (scroll to "Player" section in FAQ).
To experience the Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap remotely via computer, smartphone or tablet, click here.
Soundscapes composed and SonicMap designed by Jennifer Howd. For updates on future work, follow Jennifer on Bandcamp and Instagram.
Plas Bodfa field and fiddle samples improvised and recorded by Ynyr Pritchard.
Crwth samples from "Ffion Felfed" and "Gruffudd Rowland" by Cass Meurig from her album, "Crwth."
Special thanks to Julie Upmeyer for her support with on-site app testing and additional sample collection/recording.
SonicMap cover art by Jennifer Howd. Photo by Jim Thomas.
Freesound.org artists/samples utilized in this project:
81188__juskiddink__strong-wind-through-leaves.wav
223563__captainvince__vintage-cadillac-muffler-turn-on-idle-off-rattle.wav
243815__klankbeeld__eating-great-pond-snail-140731-0322.flac
276550__beerbelly38__spitfire-slow-oh.wav
457569__florianreichelt__peaceful-sound-of-a-herd-of-cows-in-the-swiss-alps.wav
505816__jedg__car-idle-and-turn-off-vintage-mg-convertable.wav
571632__casonika__tin-flute.wav
Audio samples
Pond
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Greenhouse
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North Garden Wall
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About the creator
Jennifer Howd