![]() ![]() In this session we will hear the mysterious story of Seaton Snook as far as we know it discuss several of the archive’s nearly 100 sonic artefacts examine the roles of composition, sonic journalism, storytelling, and parafiction in plugging the gaps in the historical record and, ultimately, question whether any of this is real at all. The archive includes pedagogical and performance compositions for piano and harpsichord folk tunes for the Northumbrian smallpipes rehearsal footage of a local psychedelic rock band as well as interviews, field recordings, photographs, and accompanying analyses. Over the last four years I have built, an online archive of sounds and music from the town and its residents, to try and form a picture of what happened there. There was a church, a school, a fairground, an indoor market, a zinc refinery, an RAF station.but then in 1968, it completely vanished.There are no government records or newspaper reports referring to the town after that year, and apparently no former residents still living. It was a thriving community of fishermen, blacksmiths, teachers, seacoalers, and musicians. ![]() Seaton Snook was a small town on the coast of County Durham. Creating an archive of sounds and music from an abandoned seaside. ![]()
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