Stage 1: Search & download ‘SatsymphQR‘ from the Appstore or GooglePlay (it’s free). It’s best to download the app from a fast wifi connection before setting off for the beach.
Stage 2: Once you have downloaded this app, open it.
Point your phone camera at this QR and allow to download.
How to navigate: Go to Stenness beach, Northmavine (Map: Landranger Sheet 3 Shetland – North Mainland, or use Google maps). Put on your headphones, open the Stenness app on your phone and it will start immediately. Put your phone in your pocket and wander.Take care – watch out for the tides.
Stenness sound-walk has been made collaboratively by artists Janette Kerr and Jo Millett, in collaboration with the art collective Satsymph assisted by artist Rob Gawthrop. It merges recordings of sounds and spoken word, and uses locative technology developed by Satsymph LLP.
Satsymph (Marc Yeats, Ralph Hoyte, Phill Phelps) are an artists’ collective creating interactive soundworlds layered over real-world locations satsymph.co.uk
Voices: Margaret Anderson, Ewan Balfour, Gilbert Fraser, Dave Hammond, John N Hunter, Barbara Ridland, Peter Rutherford, John Shaw, Brian Smith, Jim Tait, Valerie Watt. Fiddle-player: Catriona Macdonald – Shingly Beach, written by her tutor Tom Anderson for Stenness Beach.
Reading taken from: Dr Edward Charlton’s journals, 1832 and 1852; Guide to Shetland by Robert Cowie MA MD, 1879 3rd edition; An account of The New Method of Fishing on the coast of Shetland, by James Fea, surgeon, 1775; A Description of the Shetland Islands by Samuel Hibbert MD FRSE, 1822; Ployen’s Reminscences of a voyage to Shetland, Orkney and Scotland by Christain Ployen, 1839; Art Rambles in Shetland by J T Reid, 1869. Archival documents from Shetland Museum Archives, Tangwick Haa Museum.
Archival photographs reproduced with kind permission of Shetland Museum & Archives
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