Blanc Sceol - Roar

'the sound of thunder underground is borne on the air’ ….

A performative intervention exploring the other-worldly sounds of the ‘bullroarer' ‘buzzer’ ‘hummer’ ‘bummer’, using replicas of specimens found across the British Isles. This mysterious instrument's many uses are well documented, as a long-distance communication device, a children's plaything, a phallic symbol, a sacred tool for ritual, to coax mythological monsters, cattle, and rain. It continues to puzzle musicologists around the world, Sachs asks incredulously in The History of Musical Instruments ‘Is it really acceptable that every human tribe must invent an oval board held by a cord and whirled around the head for certain magical purposes?

Blance Sceol say "We are sound makers, improvisers and deep listeners. Our work is ‘psychosonographic’ expressing our experience of place, with field recordings, self-created instruments, found objects, voice, and text. We begin by listening to our environment, observing, making recordings, writing, often making our own instruments and sound objects with found materials. Our compositions and performances are like living maps, anchored in what we find in a landscape but re-imagined into new territories, and attentive to the vibrational nature of materials and surroundings."
https://www.blancsceol.co.uk/