Blog - Simon James

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“For who is prepared to go beyond the spider, the ladybug and the mouse, to a point of identification with things forgotten in the corner?”

Music and sound design for Prada’s advertising campaign for a new range of makeup called Touch, with global ambassador Bella Hadid.

A collaboration with young artists from Lewes Priory and Seaford Head Schools, in partnership with Archaeology South East, UCL, Writing Our Legacy and The Lewes Green Huts Project.

Tonight on Resonance FM.

I’ve fallen a bit behind sharing extracts but these are some things I heard earlier this year.

I’ve been running a lot of workshops this year, continuing to develop the methodology I began with Neolithic Cannibals through my deepening connection with listening.

Neolithic Cannibals has received the top honour in the 'Composed with Sound' category at this year’s Sound of the Year Awards, an international celebration of innovative sound judged by leading experts from across the global sound community.

Communio Communio In a subdued community cafe a distant electronic alert repeats a two - two rhythm.

I’m incredibly proud that the Neolithic Cannibals soundscape will be broadcast on Radiophrenia this year.

I heard these sounds in February.

Beginning in March and continuing until August I’ll be running listening workshops in Shoreham on the south coast of the UK.

Curtains of water shimmer in fading light.

A series of cards each with a different listening invitation.

Tinkers surrounded by piles of different coloured soles, pots of polish and assorted tools, sit at the end of each platform tapping small wooden sticks to gain attention from passing passengers.

Things I heard in November.

Some things I heard in October.

Sounds and music around the themes of Archaeology and deep listening.

I heard these sounds in September.

Listening to stone.