Rings on Water, by Nastassja Simensky, Rebecca Lee

Rings on Water

by Nastassja Simensky, Rebecca Lee

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1.	Monday Morning 04:03	buy track
2.	Cuckoo 01:38	buy track
3.	Succession I 02:39	buy track
4.	Sunken Barges 01:12	buy track
5.	WebDSR 03:37	buy track
6.	Bradwell TM00NW33 05:06	buy track
7.	Othona 03:51	buy track
8.	Reeds 02:02	buy track
9.	Succession II 02:06	buy track
10.	Shale 04:15	buy track
11.	Leaky Transmissions 03:56	buy track
12.	Lower Field 05:21	buy track
13.	Succession III 02:19	buy track
14.	Waymarks Beach 07:39	buy track

about

Rings on Water was originally commissioned by Focal Point Gallery for their experimental sound programme. It builds on Nastassja and Rebecca’s previous collaborations, drawing on their shared interest in time, listening, material culture and land-use.

This collection of sonic fieldnotes was developed from and in response to Nastassja’s field work and writing as part of ‘Leaky Transmissions’, an ongoing body of research and artwork shaped by the unruly entanglements of the Blackwater Estuary in Essex.

Rings on Water uses a variety of recording and transmission technologies, from FM radio, magnetic tape, coil receivers, hydrophones and contact mics to traverse the protected saltmarshes and shale banks of the Dengie Peninsula and industrial arable land. Slow Scan Television (**SSTV) and the politics of ‘radio’ as a means of transmission, collision, translation and interference are used to consider the material legacies of changing land-use and energy production in the Blackwater Estuary.

Many types of human transmission commingle and leave their mark on the Estuary, which is itself an increasingly regulated and privatised space. Cellular networks coalesce with wireless connections, electrical substations with Bluetooth signal, slow-scan television with ham radio transmissions. High-frequency short wavelengths of irradiated graphite within Bradwell A Power Station occupy the opposite end of radio spectrum to the long wavelengths of amateur radio and VLF signals generated by thunderstorms and solar weather.

Non-human forces persist, from the Estuary's conductive geology, to sputtering background radiation, to the Earth's vast and sweeping electromagnetic fields.

‘Leaky Transmissions’ is funded by @aceagrams Project Grants

**SSTV is a picture transmission method, used mainly by amateur radio operators, to transmit and receive static pictures over the radio spectrum. 

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released October 1, 2022

Field recordings, vocals, text, Nastassja Simensky
Processing, editing, transmissions, mixing, Rebecca Lee

Recorded Blackwater Estuary in Essex, and Primary in Nottingham, spring/summer 2022.

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Ongoing collaboration between musician Rebecca Lee and artist Nastassja Simensky. Exploring time, listening, transmission, material culture and land-use.

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