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Timber Repairs – Weald and Downland Museum

The AA Building Conservation first year group recently visited the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex. The museum has a collection of mediaeval timber framed buildings from across the south of England. Richard Harris, an expert on medieval timber framed buildings, showed us […]

8 March 2014 1 January 2018
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The AA Building Conservation first year group recently visited the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum in Sussex. The museum has a collection of mediaeval timber framed buildings from across the south of England. Richard Harris, an expert on medieval timber framed buildings, showed us how the museum’s approach to repairing the buildings has changed.

Earlier on in the museum's history a carpentry-focused repair was favoured. It sees complete loss of the original section of timber.

Earlier on in the museum’s history a carpentry-focused repair was favoured. It sees complete loss of the original section of timber.

Early-on a resin repair system was trialled.

Early-on a resin repair system was trialled.

The early resin repair accentuated the timber surface and brought about the idea of the "postman patch" repair, whereby the centre of the decayed timber is removed and the surface is adhered to the new repair.

The early resin repair accentuated the timber surface and brought about the idea of the “postman patch” repair, whereby the centre of the decayed timber is removed and the surface is adhered to the new repair.

Ben Powell – Rise

One of my friends from school, Ben Powell, has recently shared the following music video, Rise. Ben says: “My new video ‘RISE’ is the result of my work with LA based composer Thomas Parisch. Thomas and I composed ‘RISE’ together by layering the sounds of both my […]

8 March 2014
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One of my friends from school, Ben Powell, has recently shared the following music video, Rise.

Ben says:

“My new video ‘RISE’ is the result of my work with LA based composer Thomas Parisch. Thomas and I composed ‘RISE’ together by layering the sounds of both my electric and acoustic violins. Everything you hear was made and played on my violins apart from the percussion. Upon completion of the track, we felt it was worthy of a music video and this is the result!”

I particularly like the ephemeral qualities of Rise, and the evocative sounds of the violin case zip and rosining the bow at the start. I look forward to hearing more in the future.