Since arriving here in Stockton my time has been spent exploring not just the local landscape but also my current limits of my practice. I came here looking to examine how I install current workings of sonic works and how I can develop or bridge the gap that I find between what I am making and what I am trying to offer.
The first few weeks were spent contemplating speaker architecture and how installing speaker drivers within a form that dissolved or collapsed whilst it functioned worked. Drawing on the inspiration of the local area and its regeneration hopes/plans. I have been thinking heavily about addition and reduction as methods of creation both in sound and process works. Glitch process that I have been known to use is a perfect example of how regeneration seems to operate, existing ideology is rehashed the result is urban planning that though clearly considered it is not until it is implemented you realise the functional errors of such planning.
The focus on heritage and community, the life and death of generations that have called a place home. The time that passes by and the marks those leave on a place last longer than structures in many cases. Replacing old is not something that should be done without consideration and awareness for those that live within it. The Auxiliary residency is based within a community that is exposed to many different social factors. It is an opportunity to live within a place that is struggling to come to terms with how it should function. The oddity is that with all the trials and time that it takes to rejuvenate a place it somehow still continues, functions without much thought. Time will change the nature of a community however daily this is not something that is really brought to your attention as each day was like the last.
Mid way through this residency my father has a stroke which alongside my research here at the Auxiliary has given me a new perspective. Seeing a parent go through a life changing moment in their existence brings reality home. I have recently been back and forth between the residency and my parents to see how my father has progressed with his recovery. Even though I have not been making as much as I would of hoped it has provided much needed reflection, thinking more about the sound works that have been started yet not finished. The last few weeks here in Stockton I hope to realise some new works with little or no focus on completion yet more or presenting something that is mobile/fluid and evolving. 
Dickie Webb 