walkplacedistancetime # Once Upon a Day on Eday

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

Once Upon a Day on Eday is a 24-hour work exploring 'a whole day' of a small Orcadian island. Recorded over 12 days and encompassing the 24 hours of a day, into this sonic time and place are added two walks.

First, a circumferential walk of the island taking in the whole of the island perimeter; this offers an additional shifting perception of this place, one shaped by time, the topography of the land, the elements and human scale movement within these.

Second, a replicated walk around the south end of the island; eight times across 24 hours walking the same path. Again, time expands and changes across the replications. Overall, the work offers an opportunity to hear time and place unfold at the pace of the other-than-human world along with the measured pace of human walking.