Developing The Interactive Soundwalk With Composer Lucie Treacher

Composer Lucie Treacher has been using interviews with participants, work created with community groups and recordings taken directly from the Moray landscape to inform an immersive sound.

Lucie Treacher with primary school participants

This engagement with the community has included one-to-one interviews, visits to school and nursery groups as well as recording sessions with local musicians, choirs and music groups.

Lucie has completed the research and development phase of her work and has now moved into the production phase.

To date, Lucie has made two trips to Moray to gather sound recordings through a mixture of site visits, capturing sounds from the landscape and community engagements with groups individuals and local musicians.

Once completed, the work is planned to be shared through headphone sound walk events at 12 locations throughout Moray, and Lucie has also visited some of these sites.

Site visits have included some of the proposed locations for the sound walk. Lucie has also visited a range of locations throughout Moray, such as farms, beaches and woodlands, even attending mass at Plusgarden Abby to capture a wide range of interesting sounds from the area.

Lucie recently visited Tomintoul primary school to work with students who participated in phase one of the Remembering Together Moray project, where she ran a short workshop capturing a mix of chat and vocal improvisations from the P6 and P7 class.

Other engagements have included a visit to Step-by-Step parent and child group and a recording of stories and songs with Dan Ralph, the Burghead Clavie King.

Lucie will be working with a range of local musicians at the end of July to capture the final set of sounds she will be using to create her work. The recording sessions will take place at local recording studio Flemming Hall in Aberlour.

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