Category Archives: C3 Live Recorded

Ass Prof Fiona Graham releases a podcast about an iconic WW1 crater

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Not Just A Big Hole in France is a podcast recorded during a walk around the newly accessible Hawthorn Crater on The Somme with Associate Professor and former BBC Producer Fiona Graham and Historian and First World War tunnelling expert Colin Winn.

The first day of the Battle of the Somme is infamous in British military history. Unique access to this heritage site in France combined with scientific and film technology methodologies are creating new knowledge about the battlefield. Graham led the documentary narrative in an international interdisciplinary team of forensic archaeologists, historians, chemists, and film makers to uncover and archive the Hawthorn Crater at Beaumont.

The podcast is a short insight into the project and provides a glimpse into the project and its impact to its surrounding communities.

The full press release can be read at at https://www.staffs.ac.uk/news/2020/06/not-just-a-big-hole-in-france-researchers-uncover-secrets-of-iconic-ww1-crater

Heatwork

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Heatwork is an Arts Council funded project brining together experimental music and video composers alongside local and international musicians. The first performance of Heatwork took place on 15th Noivember 2019 at Middleport Pottery, a working industrial site housing many craft businesses. Interviews of people involved in the industry were used to create electronic sounds which were played live alongside the Brass Band and Clarient soloist. Marc Estibeiro composed the piece, which was performed by Matthias Müller, on his SABRE system, and the championship TCTC Group brass Band. Live visuals were performed by Dave Payling using his own footage and supported by additional films from Staffordshire Film Archive and BCB Festival.

Heatwork has its own project webpages at http://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/c3centre/projects/heatwork/