A short field recording residency on the East Coast of Yorkshire.

• Build a contact miscrophone (materials provided)
• Field recording
• Soundwalk to Flamborough Head
• Editing session
• Group crit

For working-class Bradfordians, Brid was the traditional holiday spot growing up in the 1970’s and 80’s.. It invokes memories of windbreakers, sandy-sandwiches, coffee flasks, knotted handkerchiefs, carrying deckchairs through endless shifting sand dunes, the tuck shop at the kids disco selling KP Skips, bingo and the two-penny arcade, colourful beach huts, chip stealing seagulls and a shoreline that always felt impossibly miles away.

For sound artists, Bridlington offers something else: an unusual mix of raw coastal acoustics and post-industrial maritime texture. Salt marshes, beaches, abundant seabird colonies, and fossil-rich chalk cliffs give natural soundscapes that are hard to replicate elsewhere. The working harbour — with iron sheet piling structures dating back to the early 1800s — combines maritime heritage with boats, nets, fishermen, tidal movement, historic stone piers, and resonant industrial surfaces.

This sonosphere sits between ambience and memory: dunes, rock pools, wave breakers, and exposed winds, with an operational 19th-century lighthouse sounding across an eroding coastline. Nearby, the historic chalk tower has absorbed the acoustics of its environment for centuries — an intimate yet contemporary listening space where remnants of time lie imprinted like sonic fossils.

Re-live those chalet-days – we’re there for the puffins, but bingo is possible.

Accommodation: Own room in a shared house close to the beach.

Open to: Women and marginalised gender groups working with sound (all levels welcome).

Fee: £20 (to confirm place)

Dates: 5th–7th June

Expressions of interest: ckearns@live.co.uk