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For this year’s Goonhilly Village Green Gathering we have been developing ideas linking the transmission both of sound broadcast by bells and data transmitted by WiFi to create our ‘transient... more

Creed is part of a series of works collectively titled Of This Parish, in which liminal has explored different aspects of bells and their relationship to culture. Like their previous project... more

Keynote speaker is J.R. Carpenter and performances include work by Laura Cannell, Chris Watson and James Dooley. ‘Large Objects Moving Air 2018 is a one day conference exploring the presence, agency... more

Of This Parish follows St. Anthony on a journey from a church tower to the threshold at which its bells can be heard. The film is both a sonic portrait of... more

Of This Parish follows St. Anthony on a journey from a church tower to the threshold at which its bells can be heard. The film is both a sonic portrait of... more

To Intercession was commissioned by Binaural/Nodar for the Viseu Rural 2.0 Collective Exhibition at Casa das Memórias (Viseu, Portugal). The show is open from 28 November 2015 – 17 April 2016.... more

Since 2013 David Prior and Frances Crow (liminal) have made a series of sound pieces that span performance, film and sculpture, each exploring different aspects of the way bells have... more

Of This Parish follows St. Anthony on a journey from a church tower to the threshold at which its bells can be heard. The film is both a sonic portrait of... more

Goonhilly Village Green 2015 (GVG) is an artist led pilot project, exploring a unique, environmentally sensitive area in Cornwall: Gonnhilly Downs. The Downs are a designated Site of Special Scientific... more

Soundscapes & Sound Identities is the seventh international symposium on soundscape organized by the FKL (Forum Klanglandschaft) The symposium is hosted by‪ festival Portobeseno 2015 from 22 – 24 May... more

The BEAST FEaST 2015, is 3 days of music, conversation and ideas featuring guest composers David Prior, Manuella Blackburn and Julian Rohrhuber. Of This Parish follows St. Anthony on a journey from... more

The BEAST FEaST 2015, is 3 days of music, conversation and ideas featuring guest composers David Prior, Manuella Blackburn and Julian Rohrhuber. Standing 100m tall (some say 99m, some say 110m),... more

The Cornwall Film Festival, screening of the walking related film Of This Parish directed by David Prior (Liminal) is part of the symposium Where to? Steps Towards the Future of Walking... more

In partnership with the AHRC Walking Artist Network, the Articulating Space Research Centre at Falmouth University is hosting a symposium called Where to? Steps Towards the Future of Walking Arts,... more

The 7th FKL Symposium Soundscapes and Sound Identities will be held at the Castello Di Besenello, Italy from 22 – 24 May 2015.  Liminal will be presenting a paper on Of... more

Land/Water consists of artists, writers and curators who embrace a diversity of creative and critical practices. As a research group based at Plymouth University it operates as a forum for... more

The IMA International Film Festival is organised by the IMA Film Society and screens 200 films from 45 Countries. The screening categories include experimental film, animations documentary, feature films, music... more

Framing Listening and the Phonosphere, will show examples from Liminal’s projects including, Organ of Corti and Of This Parish that expand on the title theme.The talk is part of the... more

Historically, cannons and bells have been made in the same forges and in times of war, bells have been melted down to make cannons. In Report the sound of a... more

The World Documentary Film & TV Conference aims to bring together international scholars and film practitioners, to contribute to world cinema documentary studies and to film theory/practice debate. It seeks... more

The Invisible Cities Symposium runs from 11 – 20 July 2014 and explores the relationship between acoustic design in the public realm and the wider influence sound has on our... more

Of This Parish:Bath Abbey explores the territory of Bath Abbey’s bells and was conceived by David Prior and Frances Crow and realised in Bath with ICIA through a participatory field... more

Of This Parish: Freguesia de Sul, was filmed on location in the Parish of Sul, Portugal as part of a three week residency with Binaural/Nodar, supported by the Arts Council... more

The idea of a ‘Parish’ – a common device used to delineate territory while also defining a sacred community – was an articulation of acoustic space: the Parish was the... more

Since November 2013 we have been working with Felicity Ford, AKA Felix, the Oxford Society of Change Ringers and alumni from Oxford Brookes University and SARU practitioners on the realisation... more

As part of the ICIA’s spring programme, Liminal will be running a 2-day workshop for 8 participants who will learn the skills of field-recording to enable them to realise a... more

• For more information on the project go to: Of This Parish
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Bells have had a central role in the formation and solidification of communities. They have an immense power to evoke, to impart a feeling of time passing, foster reminiscence and... more

The idea of a ‘Parish’ – a common device used to delineate territory while also defining a sacred community – is an articulation of acoustic space: the Parish can therefore... more