David Birchall: Sound Drawings (Leicester, Skipton, Edale) 2012-2013

Made between August 2012 and October 2013 all the drawings record passing of time and sounds as heard from single spots in the midlands and north of England.

David Birchall lives in Manchester in the UK. His work includes making and playing meta-guitars, circuits, and drawings. He is currently the artist in residence at The National Media Museum in Bradford. 

editor's note:  In the middle of the process of collecting articles and essays, David Birchall ordered On Site review 28: sound. His website shows a most beautiful collection of sound drawings of landscapes, encompassing so many of the issue themes of recent On Site reviews: writing, drawing, mapping, narrative, sound and, importantly for this issue, landscape.  Beyond the images, beyond the meaning, the semantics, the manipulation and the machinations behind some of the most innocent-seeming landscapes, especially in our national parks, David Birchall’s landscapes are sweet records of birds, rain, trees; cars, airplanes – a landscape of intention and an inadvertent result.