The event on 1st August 2023 was led by the two artist collaborators on the Mosses and Marshes project: Andrew Howe and Kim V. Goldsmith who was making a visit from New South Wales Australia. This was a walk for listening and noticing, for acknowledging our place with the more-than-human. The route followed a gentle circuit of around 4 miles along the Prees Branch of the Llangollen Canal to Whixall Moss.
We stopped at selected locations along the route to listen in silence and then noting down our responses on paper in a collaborative countermapping. Some chose to use words, trying not to just list but to describe the texture or characteristics of the sounds, some chose to express the sounds in drawings or as folded paper.
There were opportunities to expand our connection to the landscape by listening to the underwater sounds of the peat bog and Sphagnum moss using a hydrophone, and to the inner sounds of trees using a contact mic.
We also created a temporary installation in the landscape using recorded videos and sounds on mobile phones. This was definitely an experience that could not be adequately recorded on video.
Of the Mosses 