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Liminal Soundings: Cuween (Under the Fairy Knowe)

By <a href="https://axisweb.org/artist/brighidblack" title="Brighid Black" class="inline font-bold underline transition-opacity duration-100 hover:opacity-50 focus:opacity-50"> Brighid Black </a> 2019
Sound recordings made inside the chambers of Cuween Hill Neolithic Chambered Cairn, Orkney. Found objects from near the Cairn were used to produce sound inside the structure as well as human and animal voices.

Recording and sounds from found objects - Brighid Black. Singers- Connor Mulley, Hannah Chandl

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