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Much of rural Scotland has undergone significant depopulation over the last 200 years, and this still continues in some places today.

Thinking back to Laura’s reference to the artwork The Map of the Land of Feeling, maps and historical records give us ‘official’ information but are often stripped of real lived experiences, and of feeling. How can participatory art projects adapt or disrupt these more 'official' records? How can we add feeling back into these documents, these histories, these places? How can we re-humanise places that have been depopulated?

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Read the following, write down your answers, discuss them in breakout groups.

Think of a place.

What is this place for you?

Have you always used this place for the same thing?

Do other people use this space?

If so, do they use it for the same reasons/ activities as you do?

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In the same way that a landscape comprises the visual features of a location, a soundscape encompasses the acoustic features that give identity and a sense of place.

This audio-visual exercise is an opportunity to approach art-making from a sonic perspective, using listening as a catalyst for creativity, a method of interacting with our environment and exploring sound as a way to create meaning in space.

The aim of this session is to get you working within a multi-sensory experience, creating something visually influenced by the sounds you hear, while using environmentally friendly materials if available. I'll play an electroacoustic soundscape composition by Tyler Lewis. For this work I gathered some of the source recordings.

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https://soundcloud.com/soundsoftylerlewis/seals-of-ythan

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Thanks for listening & drawing! It would be wonderful if you'd upload a photo of your visual interpretation of the listening experience.

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Now, I’m going to introduce you to Gleann Forsa on Mull.

Looking at the pictures, and even imagining yourself there, I’d like to write down the words that come to mind, your response to that place. Maybe 5 words or so.

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Now, I can’t take you on the Gleann Forsa walk, so I’m going to tell you a few facts about the glen, to let you get to know it a bit better.

After hearing these facts, I’d like you to go back to your list of words, and make a new list, now that you know a bit more about the place. You might use the same words, or you might choose different ones.

The project will have other strands to it, but we don't have time to go into these today! However, there are a few links below.

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Long have I remained silent

A new recording by the band WHYTE of a traditional song about life in Gleann Forsa.

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One of several archive recordings of the song

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One of several archive recordings of the song

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by Annie Graham

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First official photo of Tyler and I...background Seattle...at that point in time, little did we know that we will add a lot more locations...

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My object is a piece of coral my sister sent me from  where she lives in Australia.  It is special to me because it represents love from my sister, as well as a mutual enjoyment of gathering, collecting, searching, and enjoying nature.

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Think about what it represents..
Is it a place or space?
A particular time/experience?
A relationship/s?
A community you are or have been part of?
Is there anything you gained/ lost/learned that has stayed with you?

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Identity work and making meaning of our experiences of space and time

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Identity work and making meaning of our experiences of space and time

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This exercise investigation into how we make connection, meaning and form identities through our experiences.

In particular I will look at collecting as a mapping practice, and how we gather and leave totems from our experiences that reflect where we have been, the relationship we have with these places and how they might have altered or influenced our trajectories.

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This a bone from a hill up the glen where I live - I picked it up one day when I was out walking, and it reminds me of the particular slope I was coming down at the time, hoping I wouldn't get shouted at by the local landlord who is a bit territorial. It makes me think about land use and ownership, humans and animals, and who has the right to go where.

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My friend picked up a handful of stones from Iona that have green flecks of jade in them. They remind me of building a connective friendship and feeling thought of and cared for.

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My object is a glass container with needles that belonged to My Aunt Barbara. It reminds me of my relationship with her, and how we both make things using the needles.

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My object is a 1960s Kenwood chef as it has memories of my childhood and when my Dad retired he started using it to make sponge cakes in.

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a place to read a book  without looking like you were on the job

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A space that I think I use or used differently was the darkroom. It was my safe space - the ritual and process of being in the dark room was really cathartic - I didn't associate it with making or photography it was therapy.

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place for conversation, reflecting...

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history, destruction, change,  new
voices

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I went there on the last really sunny day of summer and felt such heightened (by lockdown?) joy being in among the trees and the light and the rustling. I played there as a kid, and while I always liked the sensation of being in among the trees, I wouldn't have articulated it or event thought about it like I do now. How much does our appreciation of place change as we get older, and how much is it our way of thinking about or articulating it that changes?

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Hills, Reds, Browns and Blues, , Memory, Sea, Land, Views, Tranquility

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Hills, Reds, Browns and Blues, , Memory, Sea, Land, Views, Tranquility

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I've been to Mull quite a few times
often, on the way to Iona. I remember, climbing Dun da Ghaoithe, near to Glen Forsa with my mother,  It was about to snow and there was a really cold wind on top, we had to walk back quickly to keep warm.