Cinasium Soundscape

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

The twin brothers behind the music project Kinbrae were commissioned to make a soundscape of an unusual building at Crail Airfield in Fife as part of the East Neuk Festival in 2023. The building was called a cinasium - a cross between a cinema and a gym. This was the social hub for the airfield when it was still active during World War Two. Andy and Mike Truscott used field recordings and created their own sounds, without using samples, to replicate the audio that would have been heard during the war years and beyond. Their recording includes the testimony of two local residents who remember the air raid sirens and fighting off the Fife coast. The soundscape was played on speakers during the festival - bringing the building back to life through the power of the creative audio.

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0:00.0	Did you know that you can listen to many of your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds?
0:06.6	Like Desert Island Discs, where you can hear castaways like Cher, Gareth Southgate and Nick Cave,
0:12.7	and enjoy longer versions of the music they've picked. Good things come to those who don't wait.
0:18.7	Listen to your favourite podcasts first on BBC Sounds.
0:23.3	This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland. You get a sense of the history.
0:43.3	So I think at its peak there was about 5,000 servicemen here.
0:47.3	And it's interesting being here now and how quiet this site is.
0:50.3	So I think for us it was very much taking the,
0:53.3	wanted to take the audience on a story
0:56.2	through sound basically of what the site's like now and then what it used to sound like.
1:05.9	That's Andy Truscott from the musical Project Kinbrae. I met him and his twin brother Mike at Creel
1:13.1	Airfield in Fife, which was a bustling naval airfield during the Second World War.
1:23.3	Earlier this year, Andy and Mike were commissioned by the East Nuke Festival to create an audio installation at the Cinesium on the site.
1:33.3	Now it was an incredible social hub which was a cross between a cinema and a gym.
1:40.3	In this edition of Scotland Outdoors, we discover how they brought this rather unusual building back to life through the power of sound.
1:58.1	I'd never heard of it before, definitely.
2:05.0	No, it's a unique kind of space definitely yeah I've definitely never heard about it before
2:07.1	I don't know if Andy has but no no yeah new word to me as well
2:10.4	I think when you see the building as well it's quite
2:13.5	unassuming that what's going to be inside I know it's like a fairly big
2:16.7	building but you know it's quite grey and you, I think anyone would just sort of drive past this
2:21.3	and not realise what it was. So, yeah, I think it sort of gave us an opportunity to sort of
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