90 MILES

About the project:

video • 6:40 • UK • no dialogue

90 MILES is a short experimental film mapping the River Eden in miles and MIDI sounds. Images are taken from an armchair voyage down the River Eden – by “armchair voyage”, this is very much a journey through the online (and removed) archive of historical and contemporary maps. Contrasting the static and the distant, the soundtrack is composed from a swim by the artist – audio from the swim converted to MIDI then transformed into Logic SoCal drums. These sounds prompt the question of where archives are necessarily stored – for there is another archive of the river, stored (reverberating) in the body.