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Constable Ambisonic
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@artscouncilengland funded project to record the locations of Constable Paintings by Stuart Bowditch 2025-26
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Had a very useful trip to Hampstead to record 'Hampstead Heath looking towards Harrow' on the same day and time as Constable did, just 204 years later. I also visited his former house in Well Walk and grave at St.John's.

#johnconstable
September 29, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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The front that is just visible in the distance over the roof tops is moving away from us. It brought a stormy shower with some thunder. In front of it was the warm air of summer and behind it, and here now, was the cooler air of #autumn. It arrived between 15:30 and 16:00 on 11th September.
September 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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Spent an hour recording the soundscape of St.Botolph's Priory in Colchester this morning, in response to John Constable's drawing of the same ruins in 1809. All will be shared soon. X
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#fieldrecording #johnconstable #colchester #painting #drawing #listening #stbotolphspriory
The ruins of St.Botoloh's Priory in Colchester on a sunny late summers morning.
September 8, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Made an #ambisonic recording of the location of John Constable's 'Willy Lott's Cottage' this afternoon and it was bliss immersing my self in the environs of Flatford Mill. Keep an eye on the YouTube channel. X
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#fieldrecording #johnconstable #flatford #painting #listening #willylottscottage
Willy Lott's Cottage, made famous by John Constable's painting, on a late summers day by the River Stour.
September 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Today I recorded the location of Constable's 'Stoke-by-Nayland' painting c1811. Long form #slowtv audio and image will be up on the project YouTube soon X
A microphone on a stand with St.Marys at Stoke-by-Nayland in the background.
August 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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The last weekend of 'Air Show'
at Cuckoo Farm Studios, Colchester, Essex, featuring 'Cloud Study #03' from the Constable Ambisonic project X
July 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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I tested my new @reynolds_microphones A-Type 4 ambisonic #microphone beside the #riverstour. A new short about my activities is up on YouTube and a longer form film will follow soon X

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On a summers day, a microphone in a fluffy windshield on a tripod next to the River Stour with a couple of cows on the meadows on the opposite bank.
June 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Cloud Study #03 is on YouTube now. It was recorded Friday evening on the meadows at Flatford in 'Constable Country'.

youtu.be/kPrloY36w30
It was Friday evening and the working week had just finished. Ahh. As the clouds were looking particularly active and varied, I drove over to #Flatford for a couple of hours to wind down. When I got there the sun was bright and low, but some high thin cloud drifted across the landscape during the time I shot this film. A herd of young cows grazing on the #meadows came up behind me but were camera shy so headed away again. They did however occupy the place where I was after I had left (cause and effect). The crane flies are very active at this time of year. The big wooden kissing gates have strong springs on them and most people let them shut loudly. Sitting on my tiny chair amongst the nettles and buttercups, listening, writing, there didn't seem to be a huge amount of #birds active but the Merlin Bird app informed me otherwise. In this recording you can hear Goldcrest, Great Crested Grebe, Skylark, Blackcap, Jackdaw, Pheasant, Coot, Greenfinch, Mallard, Song Thrush, Wood Pigeon, Mute Swan, Cuckoo, Chaffinch, Garden Warbler, Chiffchaff, Wren, Canada Goose, Dunnock, Gadwall, Blue Tit, Goldfinch, Magpie, House Martin, Blackbird and Robin.
May 31, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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I have a new film that was made on a footpath leading up the hill from Fen Bridge Lane in East Bergholt on a lovely warm sunny afternoon. It is approximately the view featured in 'The Cornfield', painted between January and March in 1826 by John Constable. #blueskymonday #birds

youtu.be/Qf3QHjetSD4
A microphone with a large windshield in a field with short grass.
May 19, 2025 at 5:29 AM
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Whilst making #fieldrecordings whether in urban or rural environments, it's good practice to be as quiet as one can, in order to not record yourself, but also to be more aware of your surroundings.

A new Short is now up on
youtube.com/shorts/nAYOd...
Willy Lott's house, as made famous by painter John Constable, in the clear blue spring sky.
May 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Out in the Dedham Vale again filming Cloud Studies. Keep an eye on our YouTube channel for the results 🤎
April 21, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Cloud Study #1
is now up on our YouTube channel
#slowtv

youtube.com/@ConstableAm...
April 19, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Todays 2nd #assignment testing the @reynolds_microphones A Type 4 #ambisonic #microphone in #constablecountry by the tranquil #riverstour #fieldrecording ©sounddevices #mixpre6 #cablemanagementneedssomework
April 10, 2025 at 4:56 PM