A Temple by The Sea is the first release by YSTLUM GWYN, a collaboration between Bethan Lloyd (Ystlum) and Ben Whitehill (Devvin Gwyn). The album was arranged from material recorded over a couple of days in November, in a vicarage in Llandudno, N. Wales; and the presence of the neighbouring church, sitting empty save for it's ghosts, looms heavy over the recordings. The house that was their setting served as surrogate temple for a domestic ritual - a communion of sound in consecration of the old building to secular yet devotional tones and echos - and preceded an album of spectral presence. Bethan's pensive melodies and layered vocalisations sing from distant hills, born on the squall of Ben's electro-acoustic investigations. The colours in a tapestry of tempestuous noise. Invocations summoning other strange voices.. Within the walls or above the ceiling, out to sea.
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We'll miss her now she's gone

Two short films by Jack Wormell, with sound from B. Whitehill (in collaboration with J. Thomas on one). For more of Jack Wormell's films go here. They're all fantastically playfull and well worth a watch.

Holiday Video | 4' 56'' | 2016 | Sound: Benjamin Whitehill & Jamie Thomas

'Holiday Video' is meta, mental and quite magical. Here's what jack has to say about it

"A video I videoed on holiday a couple of years ago, with some Super 8 in there as well. Great holiday, went canoeing on a loch, played frisbee, walked up a mountain, drank beer in a water sports centre and generally enjoyed the magical wooded environs. I then took some of the footage I shot and cut it into this, and gave my friends Ben and Jamie some sounds, from the holiday and elsewhere, to work into a soundtrack, which they did admirably."

Scree Fucking Junk | 11' 27'' | 2014 | Sound: Benjamin Whitehill

'Scree Fucking Junk' was made some time ago. I'm very fond of it. It's delightfully lo-fi and a wonderful expression of the unnerving, grainy strangeness that can occupy the banal. In Jack's words:

"This film’s a real groaner. It looks at a fairly useless piece of land in north west London which seems to only exist because of the roads and walkways that delineate its perimeter. An irrational space born out of rational urban planning, me and Ben worked on this premise, shifting from rational to the irrational in the sound and image relationship. They move along separate trajectories, at times in unison, at other times just out of step with each other, and at others, way off. It reminds me of Mulder and Scully’s phone calls in X-Files - always just missing each other in times of crisis. Partly inspired by the photography of John Gossage and listening to The Dead C, and wanted to make a video with some of that wreckage of the everyday. Filmed over two mornings in Febuary because the internal battery of the Panasonic SDR-S26 handicam I was using only had about an hour of juice. I had to get a tube and then a rail replacement bus both days. Play loud please."

The lowest cardinal number
half of two
A single thing viewed as taking place of a group
Just one 
as opposed to any more or to none at all
Electronics all circuit bent
he put one hand around her neck and one around her waist
A glass tube closed at one end
None of this yet was a mistake
​None of this yet was a mistake
None of this yet was a mistake
None of this yet was a mistake
One afternoon in late October
a noteworthy example
Of something identical
the same
The mist rose out of the river
weekend drizzle and fog
 A domino or dice with one spot
​A person of a specified kind
extraordinary but inexplicably not
Intangibly tied to a passing smile
Intangibly tied to a passing smile
Intangibly tied to a passing smile
Intangibly tied to a passing smile
A conversation between two loud speakers
In agreement
Microtonal harmonies
I, for one, am becoming sick of writing
Following the vogue of deleted existence
Unique
single
She hadn't had much sleep recently
One thing corresponds to or is exchanged for another
Not all instances fit neatly into these categories
A few 
there are one or two signs worth watching for
But i'm done fucking thinking about it
I'm done fucking thinking about it
I'm done fucking thinking about it
I'm done fucking thinking about it
​I'm done fucking thinking about it

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