Plas Bodfa Continuum SonicMap

“Plas Bodfa” is a 100-year old manor house on the isle of Anglesey in Wales UK. This immersive sonic experience was designed for the “Plas Bodfa Continuum” art exhibition taking place at Plas Bodfa April 9 - 24, 2022. The art exhibition’s title, “Plas Bodfa Continuum,” implies a continuous flow of time—ideas and energies from the past, carried into the present and stretched out into the future. Like time, sounds can also be malleable—stretched and compressed, layered and manipulated. The soundscapes created for this experience propose a deliberate engagement with sound and time, using Plas Bodfa’s grounds as a framework. The sounds featured in the soundscapes are both current and historic and were constructed in the style of musique concrète, utilizing field samples recorded on the manor house’s expansive grounds in present-day, while also mixing in samples of vintage ambient sounds from various decades over the past century. Several of the soundscapes also feature samples of traditional instruments used in Welsh music such as the crwth, tin whistle, and fiddle. For those wanting to engage with the interactive SonicMap but are unable to attend on-site, you can interact with the remote SonicMap via computer, smartphone or tablet by visiting: http://jenniferhowd.com/plas-bodfa-continuum-sonicmap. For more information about Plas Bodfa and the Plas Bodfa Continuum Art Exhibition, visit: https://www.plasbodfa.com.