Echoes of a Dawn Past

The WW1 poem, Returning, We Hear the Larks, by Isaac Rosenberg has been translated into Morse code and combined with birdsong recordings. I made the dawn chorus recordings on the Salisbury Plain where British and Commonwealth troops trained together before being sent to the front. Brass fragments of the poem and of birdsong hang from the gallery ceiling echo the sound of the dawn chorus intermingled with Morse code. Materials: WW1 poem Returning, We Hear the Larks by Isaac Rosenberg, dawn chorus site recordings, Morse code, brass fragments of poem and birdsong, chain, WW1 lantern with a speaker inside