Nature Calling Conversation #3: Gwyneth Herbert, Jason Singh & Chris Howard
Six artists commissioned as part of the Nature Calling programme will talk about their practice with specialists from other fields.
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- Event lasts 1 hour
An acclaimed composer, lyricist and performer with connection at the heart of her practice, Gwyneth Herbert has collaborated with artists and communities around the world to create a huge canon of genre-defying work. Commissions include London Sinfonietta, Snape Maltings, Mahogany Opera.Jason Singh is highly regarded sound artist, beatboxer, DJ and workshop leader, working across installations in museums and the outdoors, live performances and community residencies. Processing bio-data from plants, trees, wildlife, Jason captures the unheard sounds of nature within his compositions. Commissions include BBC, V&A, Milton Keynes Festival, and WOMAD.Chris Howard is an award-winning producer and director of British wildlife documentaries including the BBC’s Springwatch and Wild Isles series. He also collaborates with other artists, musicians and authors to bring British wildlife to life in new ways.
Gwyneth, Jason and Chris’s Nature Calling project View In View Out
'View In View Out' (VIVO) is a unique, immersive 360 soundscape presented in Weston-super-Mare this July.
Inspired by collaborative workshops with young people and community groups - held in Weston-super-Mare and the Mendip Hills National Landscape - co-authors Gwyneth Herbert, Jason Singh and Chris Howard, with producers’ Sound UK and Super Culture, have created a new work, weaving participants’ responses into the sounds of Mendip wildlife, trees, plants and cave acoustics.
VIVO Installation: An empty shop will be transformed into a unique, 360 immersive soundscape; exploring the landscape, plants, people and wildlife of the Mendip Hills and Weston-super-Mare. The audio will track through layers of time, soil, stone and roots to hear the ancestors of the caves, the dying song of the ash trees, the birds of the plateau. Hear the song of the ghost of Charterhouse, the tales of a Mendip storyteller, and the voices of children from Weston.
VIVO Trails: Following the launch of the VIVO installation and taking place throughout the summer, people are encouraged to visit the Mendip Hills National Landscape and engage with an augmented reality (audio and animated illustrations) trail on Mendip. This experience will also be happening in Weston's South Ward.
Find out how you can experience View In View Out.
Nature Calling
Nature Calling is delivered by National Landscapes Association and executive creative partners Activate Performing Arts. It is funded by Arts Council England and Defra via the Protected Landscapes Partnership and England’s National Landscapes.
Through contemporary conversations about what landscape means to us today inspired by artists working with communities, ‘Nature Calling’ is encouraging and inviting new audiences to make a connection with natural landscapes when there is a current and pressing need to secure nature’s future.
Nature Calling events will be taking place throughout the summer of 2025 in National Landscapes, with larger scale projects in the six hub locations: Chilterns, Dorset, Forest of Bowland, Lincolnshire Wolds, Mendip Hills and Surrey Hills.
Future Nature Calling Conversations:
3 September: Matt Rosier in conversation
24 September: INSTAR in conversation
29 October: Becca Gill in conversation
20 minute versions of all of the Nature Calling Conversations will be available via the Nature Calling website if you’ve missed one or want to listen again.