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Circle of Stones (The Nine Ladies)

by John Biddulph

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CIRCLE OF STONES

I would love to report that these sounds, and importantly, the idea to produce them came from experiencing a mystical misty moorland morning with the outline of standing stones fading in and out of focus or a special interest in ancient sites and monuments. The truth is, I was reminded of a place I visited in my late teens and early twenties by a post from Paul Conneally (Little Onion) on social media. I don’t use social media all that much but the post was posted, read, and the connection was made.
I read about a visit to the Nine Ladies Stone Circle on Stanton Moor near where I lived in my formative years, had a strong recollection of being there and needed to explore the memory in sound.
I began by creating a ‘sound wash’ in an attempt to evoke the mystery surrounding this ancient monument. Then, I used some sound design software to create a graphic image of the nine standing stones plus one. The plus one is a single stone over to the east of the main circle and marked, curiously, Bill Stumps and mentioned in Dickens’ Pickwick Papers. Each stone had a ‘voice’ created for it and the graphic representation used to trigger these voices. I imagined the voices of the stones communicating in some way and tried to weave them together in the soundscape. The result is Circle of Stones (The Nine Ladies).

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released December 21, 2020

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John Biddulph London, UK

John has been exploring electronic sound for nearly 50 years. His first encounter was with an early valve version of a Watkins Electronic Music Copicat, a violin with a guitar pick up and an effects pedal, synthesisers the size of old telephone switchboards reel to reel tape recorders with 10 yard tape loops around jam jars. John has worked in the field of neuro-diversity and autism in particular. ... more

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