Struggling with the billowing undercurrents of a life-threatening illness, at the beginning of the 2000s British scholar and contemporary musician Stephen Davismoon found shelter in the waters of Tuscany’s Arno. His field-recording oeuvre Towards the Water’s Edge is a touching sonorous testimony comprising thousands of samples documented as he studied the river’s course, from source to mouth, following its long journey from the Apennine Mountains to the Mediterranean Sea. These days Stephen’s health is much improved and he works as head of performing arts at Lancashire’s Edge Hill University, but his mind still goes back to those days spent along the Arno’s riverbed.
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