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Lara Band
@laraband.bsky.social
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I knew who I was when I got up this morning but I think I've changed several times since then // archaeologist, likes scapes: sea, land, film, sound
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For #LondonRiversWeek I'm sharing a photo of the Channelsea, much culverted but where it emerges is a lovely marshy spot, cared for by #SurgeCollective #BlancSceol and the site, recently, for #LeakyInstruments workshops on how we can live ethically with rivers #RiverCommons
A glimpse through the fine branches of a tree at tidal marshland with a narrow river running through it A sample tube for microbial waters lies on a printed historic map, and a piece of paper with prompts for poems on marsh mud
May 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Super 2 days teaching building recording & talking sound w/ @bbkhistorical.bsky.social #ThamesThroughTime BA & MA fieldschool students. We all discovered much more about this GII wall than the List description! Thx so much @lesleymcf.bsky.social @drclaireharris.bsky.social for the invite!
A close up of bricks in a wall. One of the bricks has three holes in it, where someone picked up the brick while it was still wet. A grey plastic soldier tucked in a gap in brick work
April 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Yellow #DistanceDrift for spring and (nearly) St David's Day. Fun to be joining in again with @soniaoverall.bsky.social longstanding remote and communal wander, felt just the weather for it!
Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - a curve of a yellow line road marking making a rainbow with a triple row of sets and the curb: 529 sprayed in yellow on a green wheelie bin, a square plastic plate in the pavement saying GAS; yellow lichen on a green metal gate Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - catkins in the sunlight, yellow plastic blocks for weighting down temporary fencing, a daisy with a yellow center, a bright yellow dandelion Four images arranged in a grid: clockwise from top left - a yellow.sign saying BE AWARE! Thieves operate in this area; 146 written in chalk on a green lampost; yellow plastic temporary fencing by the side of a road; the shadows of a fence cast on the pavement giving a grey and yellow pattern A yellow daffodil not fully open, next to a golden crocus
March 2, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Well that was a great day, thinking about silence as presence and ways of 'noising', socially engaged practice and the ethics of tech plus the ASR captioning providing a theme fitting accidental aural misguide. Fantastic conversations on and of stage #ListeningTogether #CRiSAP
The cover of the symposium programme which says ual: creative research in sound arts practice - Listening Together- practices for community centred listening, in black and neon orange
February 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Foggy swims and Finnish classics, this is what this Christmas is made of
Overlooking Plymouth Sound, morning sun brwaking though cloud cover low on the horizon, mist and calm seas render the images almost in black and white A shot from the opening sequence of the Black and White 1955 Finnish film 'The Unknown Soldier', with the name of the film super imposed over a bleak image of a boggy landscape
December 26, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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Winter solstice on mist soaked Sheep's Tor, Dartmoor. I didn't find the Pixie lanterns I was looking for but saw a fairy ring near the Pixie House and listened to the deep rumblings and cracklings of the earth

#WIP #methanelandscapes
#geophone #ecouticmicrophone
A misty moorland landscape with russet bracken in the foreground and a Tor rising up from the mist in the distance A winter landscape of moss covered rocks, dry stone walls with and skeleton trees lining a wide path. The grey sky makes the colours pop A dark ring of grass in lighter grass, a fairy ring
December 22, 2024 at 4:01 PM
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'Regenerated' landfills are another methane landscape I've been thinking about so imagine my excitement finding Puck Haw on the 1868 OS map of Nutfield Marshes, Surrey, where I went field recording a couple of weeks ago. Named for marsh lights lurking by hedgerows? No idea, but going with it...
Screen shot of a Close up of the 1868 Ordnance Survey map covering Nutfield Marshes, Surreu, showing a house, or possibly an area, named Puck Haw. From the website Old Maps Online
December 19, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Fugitive Emissions WIP

In the SW pixies and Will o' the Wisps (Jack o' Lanterns, Devon; Joan the Wad, Cornwall) elide: lanterns pixies carry, employed by pixies to lead astray or shapeshifting pixies? Anyhow pixies and marsh lights are closely linked and a visit to Sheepstor piskie house is due
Close up detail from a modern Ordnance Survey map, showing Sheep's Tor near Yelverton, Devon and the 'Piskies or Pixies House' at the summit
December 19, 2024 at 4:59 PM
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Contact: my 2 min soundpiece for our #TAG45 paper made from foreshore and Thames field recordings at #Deptford, walking & talking with @drclaireharris.bsky.social, Helen Chittock, Tom Chivers, @lesleymcf.bsky.social

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December 17, 2024 at 11:39 AM
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Messing about on the marshes, Burnham on Crouch
A photo of a woman with long brown hair, wesring a short white diaphanous dress, walks on saltmarsh with the sun rising over the tidal estuary in the background A photo of a blood orange sunrise lighting up the sky over coastal saltmarsh An indistinct photo of a person in a white dress lit from within half sitting up in the dark, on a saltmarsh
December 1, 2024 at 12:35 PM
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Exciting! Kingston School of Art MA Museum & Galleries Studies student exhibition at Hogarth's House next week! Just finished a planning session with them, great to hear them share their ideas & develop pitches for talking to visitors to The Visit

#kingstonschoolofart #hogarthshouse #thevisit
November 27, 2024 at 2:02 PM
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Post conference watery drawing at Mumbles #PMAC24
A scribbly and watery (water soluble pastels) sketch of the sea, sky and rocks at Mumbles. The sketch book page is weighted down by a wet and glistening stone, photographed against the shingle beach
April 8, 2024 at 5:36 PM
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The call for submissions for CHAT 2024 is open! activatechat.chat-arch.org Plymouth, 5-7 November - respond to the themes Activate ('to cause something to start') and Busy ('having a great deal to do') and their many intersections: films, sessions, posters, presentations or suggest something else!
March 21, 2024 at 7:14 AM