2024
Peninsula Sounds is a sound archive project exploring the Hamble Peninsula in Hampshire, commissioned by Eastleigh Borough Council.
The project was led by John Coburn at Wild Museum, who gathered together a group of artists to investigate the natural and human communities of Hamble, Bursledon and Hound. Rose worked alongside John, sound artists Tim Shaw and Chris Watson, and musician Jennifer Reid to find connections between time and place through sound, each approaching it with their own expertise and artistic practice.
Rose created Wint, Went – an old Hampshire phrase meaning ‘to go to and from’, and her piece explored the different histories and sub-surface narratives of the Hamble River. Rose travelled by boat from the mouth to its upper reaches with a group of maritime archaeologists from Southampton University: Fraser Sturt, Stephanie Blankshein, Helen Farr and Samuel Ongaro. Conversations took in the river’s history and its potential futures, the materiality of wrecks and hulks. And along the way Rose recorded sound below the surface whilst Fraser used sonar to plot the riverbed. The different elements brought together all kinds of human and ecological voices and narratives, shifting in scale and time.
Rose’s piece sits within the larger archive of sound created by the group, from football stadiums to church bells, local songs and and the sonorous sea. The archive was launched in September 2024.
Read more about the project and listen to the sound archive here. View the publication here.
