Sam Bithell - BA (Hons) Music and Sound Design
Black Lung, Buried Mined
My project is a short conceptual Extended Play (EP) that is based around the themes of the mining culture of my hometown Wigan. The EP will be an ambient collection of songs that feature’s industrialisation as well as aspects of spoken word and soundscapes. Ambient music was the decided genre as the project would explore the use of ambient music, and ambience, within the treatment of mental and physical health through a music therapy point of view. This directly links into the mining theme with the ongoing battle that ex-miners feel within their own mental and physical health, this was something I wanted to show through audio clips from an interview with a miner being played throughout the project.
