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Scotscapes

by Sonic Scotland

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Scotscapes is an immersive, audio-visual time capsule incorporating film, poetry and ambisonic sound.

Follow our character behind the lens, isolated from the modern world and seeking reconnection through their unique, local environment – Strathkelvin Railway Path – reflecting on its past and spaces which exist through time.

We begin in Winter with our surroundings perfectly still and desolate, conjuring ghostly sound-remnants of the past.

Our character journeys through nature’s reawakening in Spring and discovers renewed hope and connection in the midst of Summer’s final flourishes.

lyrics

Latent memories peel back the past
A shroud of snow
Its desolate beauty
Profound silence saturates the mind
Jarred only by the drag of industry

A weary Sun peers through
Enveloping mist
A trace shift of light
Endured shade dissipates
A glance of sunrise
Another dawn

A ghost train lost to time
Transported down the line
Centuries collide
Subversion of time and place
Reaching beyond boundaries

Wisdom is dying
As it bleeds into the tired route of tradition

A pathway to sanity
Clutching at shadows
Clear-cut distinctions
Blur contrived assumptions
Past and future ceaselessly overlaid
Crossing over as pedestrians on a busy road

Seeping into the bones
Of youth’s crushed ambition
Graffitied walls
Echo ancestral calls

Malignant austerity
Withers on investigation
An unremitting loss of truth
Tunnel vision ends in light

Mistakes repeated
Eternal complacency recycled
Aged sacrifice, deleted

A stream of ideas
The ripple effect
Mirrored in the river’s progress
Wave over wave
Outbreaks on the shore
Undercurrents of unrest
Refreshing vigour
Replenishing rigour
Brooking no resistance
The reckoning arrives

Exciting the senses of retreated lives

Summer strikes the eye
Seeing the point of visual wonders
Wild flock spreads with ease

The wire bird’s rusted gaze
Stares in envy

Rekindling warm words
And the avid rush of upheaval
Bridging continents
Making a rare jump
Towards freedom

Seasoned earth will turn
Another Spring rising will come.

credits

released January 15, 2021
Poem: J.B. Quinn
Audio/video: Sonic Scotland

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