Soundlands and Plas Bodfa Projects presents:

Sounds for an Empty House – an audio exploration of Plas Bodfa

A 100-year-old manor house, currently empty of human residents, but far from silent. Its structure channels gusty winds through drainpipes, creating baritone whispers. Gaps in the roofing slates allow smaller bursts of air to enter and dissipate softly into echoing voids. A fidgety family of jackdaws inhabits one spacious attic, while bats silently occupy another. Water drips through unseen drains. A panel edged with crackled tape exhales. A vent flaps. Something, somewhere shutters.

Part 1

Sounds from an Empty House

LISTEN – to a 24-hour live-stream from Plas Bodfa

Sounds created by the house itself and its immediate surroundings will be live-mixed, augmented and manipulated by invited, local sound artists and creatives.

• Saturday, 26 June, beginning at sunrise (05:00)
• live for 24 hours until
• Sunday, 27 June, ending at sunrise (05:00)

24 sound artists and creatives participating in the live stream:

Part 2

Sounds for an Empty House

CREATE – sound works for Plas Bodfa.

Recordings of the live-stream, along with sounds from the house in various weather conditions, will be available to creatives world-wide to create a new audio composition.

The submissions from this open call will be released as a joint digital album with Welsh experimental music label Amgueddfa Llwch.

submission info album

The Lineup – Sunrise to Sunrise

Saturday 26 June

• 05:00 – 06:00 – Chaparral Andy Hodges
• 06:00 – 07:00 – Carphology Collective
• 07:00 – 08:00 – Katherine Betteridge
• 08:00 – 09:00 – Ynyr Pritchard
• 09:00 – 10:00 – etchasketch
• 10:00 – 11:00 – Angela Davies
• 11:00 – 12:00 – Mark Albrow
• 12:00 – 13:00 – Bev Craddock
• 13:00 – 14:00 – Zöe Skoulding & Alan Holmes
• 14:00 – 15:00 – Post Premonition
• 15:00 – 16:00 – Real Institute
• 16:00 – 17:00 – Rob Spaull
• 17:00 – 18:00 – ANOIKIS (Melissa Pasut & Andrew Leslie Hooker)
• 18:00 – 19:00 – Glyn Roberts – FFRWD
• 19:00 – 20:00 – Super Group
• 20:00 – 21:00 – ACCRETION ENTROPY
• 21:00 – 22:00 – tom.m
• 22:00 – 23:00 – Hopewell Ink
• 23:00 – 24:00 – Lisa Heledd Jones

Sunday 27 June

• 00:00 – 01:00 – Amy Sterly
• 01:00 – 02:00 – Charles Gershom
• 02:00 – 03:00 – Ed Wright
• 03:00 – 04:00 – j Milo Taylor
• 04:00 – 05:00 – Graham Hembrough

Sounds for an Empty House is a project of Soundlands and Plas Bodfa Projects in collaboration with Amgueddfa Llwch, Listen to the Voice of Fire, Oscilloscope and Recordiau Prin.