Latest album from the experimental performative collaboration between artists Mandy Rathbone, Joe Stevens and David Rogers. Focusing site-specific acoustic interventions. This time it sees the three artists undertaking sonically exploring the potential of St. Catherine’s Chapel (situated in Abbotsbury, Dorset, UK) on 8th June 2012. What you hear is each of our tracks, synched together and overlaid – with [...]

A new publishing venture has released a new limited edition CD-R: angle, available at   http://www.51degreesnorth.net/angle/ The cd features 3 tracks recorded inside the tunnels at this derelict fort on Portland, where we proceeded to play the space with whatever came to hand. Each artist capturing the sound at their location. What you hear on the CD [...]

Joe Stevens new work Parallels and Meridians has now been installed in Weymouth Town centre, ready for the Olympics arriving here.  The installed work has been specifically tailored for Portland as part of the b-side multimedia festival, a cultural Olympiad event. http://www.b-side.org.uk/festival-2012/parallels-and-meridians-beyond-boundaries This work has changed since the original app development commission and now features a film [...]

Our first release on 51degreesnorth.net has now been issued in a limited edition of 50 CD-Rs in cardboard wraparound sleeves. The album – angle – is about making music out of spaces and what is found in them without any prior knowledge of what could be to hand. View angle details and hear a sample at;  http://www.51degreesnorth.net/angle/ [...]

Ongoing sonic survey of my locality, the latest album release on 51degreesnorth. Joe Stevens | Newtons Cove – field recordings from Dorset available for free download:  51degreesnorth.bandcamp.com/album/newtons-cove Newton’s Cove is a small cove with sand, shingle and rock pools, just south of Weymouth, Dorset, England. It overlookings Portland Harbour and is next to the Nothe Fort. The beach [...]