walkplacedistancetime #48 - Chance Encounters on Contención Island (Set 1)

embodiment -:- walking human movement -:- place more-less natural -:- distance time over across -:- field recording -:- poetry -:- composition -:- martin p eccles

On each of the 42 days of the first Covid-19 lockdown we walked the streets around our home. Recording, tracing, re-tracing, our steps slowly marked the limits of our permitted walking, our contained walking, an act of walking that drew a boundary, an edge that I came to see as the shoreline of an island, an imagined island, an island of containment; I named it Contención Island.

From daily field recordings I use random procedures to pick days and durations to build 60-minute sets of chance encounters across the 42 days, encounters that are shorter or longer, that move forward and back through time, that reflect the sense of strangeness of those days.

You can listen to the complete recordings and read the daily mesostics in full at martinpeccles.com