Beneath Clouded Hills, Episode 2: Pastoral Excavations

Artist-researchers Verity Birt and Una Hamilton Helle are on the search for Deep England, asking what the term means and where to find it? To help them on their journey they speak to artists, musicians and academics whose research and practices broaden the pastoral picture. In this episode we hear from geographer David Gilbert about what Deep England looks like; artist composer duo Nastassja Simensky and Rebecca Lee about an artist residency they undertook at an archaeological dig and Sian O’Gorman from NYX and Gazelle Twin about their collaborative record Deep England.

CREDITS

Beneath Clouded Hills, of which these podcasts are part of, is a wider art and research project by Verity Birt and Una Hamilton Helle.

This episode was commissioned as part of Legion Projects’ audio series Ploughing Old Patterns, Raising New Ground and co-commissioned by Bloc Projects. 

This episode was made by Verity Birt and Una Hamilton Helle 

Music is copyrighted and courtesy of:

The Snow it Melts the Soonest by Anne Briggs is courtesy of Topic Records Ltd

Sherds is courtesy of Nastassja Simensky & Rebecca Lee 

Deep England and Jerusalem is courtesy of NYX & Gazelle Twin

Editor and sound designer is Una Hamilton Helle

To listen to a Deep England inspired playlist search ‘Beneath Clouded Hills’ on Spotify

The series theme tune composed by Stephen Crowe

Graphic design for the series is by Blue Firth 

This episode has been supported by Arts Council England and the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 863944 THINK DEEP).

With thanks to Matthew-Robert Hughes of Legion Projects, Sunshine Wong, curator at Bloc Projects, Mark Dicker for editing help, all the interviewees and musicians who allowed us to use their music. 

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