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Lucy Stevens is an artist whose environmental soundscapes and visual art investigates the relationship between humanity and nature.
Stevens works with field recordings to produce aural portraits of wildlife, to share as headphone recordings, sound walks or as art installations. Recent projects include, Pigeon Pie Chart (2013) and Pigeon Clock Graph (2012), and were created from collecting a year’s worth of data from bird watching (pigeons to be precise!), to produce digital drawings to share the fascinating habits of wildlife, including courting behaviour and colour morph.
Since 2007 she has created site-specific sound walks for the public, using binaural audio recordings via headphones, based on themes relating to locality and psychogeography.
Stevens’ current soundscapes reflect her passion for wildlife and her interest to document moments when she feels most connected to nature. To capture sound recordings using a variety of sound recording techniques including; contact microphones, hydrophones and a parabolic dish to amplify underwater sounds and vibrations that are usually inaudible. The most important thing is the exploration in listening, the act remembering and sharing these experiences of sound with others, to open new kinds of participation and collaboration. Stevens enjoys the creative process of listening, observing, responding, recording, and the idea of being able to expand access to the non-human world to reveal the density of sound.
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Pete Barclay
says: Hello Lucy,
I just finished a project exploring how sound influences drawing and found your work most interesting. Nice prints too.
Good luck with your next venture.
Peter
Sydney, Austraila
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Hi Peter
Thanks for the comment- do you have a blog/website to show your drawings? What type of sounds were you using to inspire drawings?
Nice to hear from you
| Posted 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Your body of work here is quite impressive.
Congratulations on an awesome project and job well done~
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Thanks, much appreciated and thanks for the follow!
| Posted 4 days, 5 hours ago
Lucy, we are working with the County council economic development team to coordinate the next stage of Bathing beauties – another series of creative installations entitled Structures on the Edge. We are looking for interesting things that can take place to raise the profile of our scheme and the Bathing Beauties in general. It would be good to meet and chat about what you do, so its there in case anything appropriate comes up.
| Posted 3 years agoWe have worked with Dallas Simpson before http://www.spiresandsteeples.com/ListenHere/ and would be keen to do a similar project for the coast, perhaps as a pod cast or as an Ap or other format people can access on their phone at locations along the coast. We are particularly keen to do as Listen Here has done – partner accessible sound experience, like reminiscence and song, with creative sound interpretive piece.
Dear Lucy,
I’m currently working on my PhD at the University of Huddersfield researching the relationship between reality and fiction in immersive performances – obviously your work is of considerable interest to me and I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind being interviewed as part of my research?
Kindest Regards
Mark Ellis
| Posted 2 years, 6 months agoHi Mark
Thanks for leaving a comment. Sounds like an interesting research area, anything I can do to help just let me know.
Send me an email at lucystevensaudio@gmail.com
Thanks
| Posted 2 years, 6 months ago