Spring - Settling In

In looking into starlings the other day and their tendencies to navigate towards the edges of dark and light boundaries, it got me thinking about edgelands.  I need to make a 'sonic reaction' to something for a friend by the end of the month and I was thinking that my time spent reading about these liminal areas, in combination with staying in a peculiar outskirt area of Belfast, would provide me with suitable content to respond audibly.  The track has to be fifteen minutes long so i'd like to use this time to journey from urban to rural zones perhaps, encountering the different natures of the untapped borderlands. Maybe I could sample some bits from the film which I'm halfway through.. going to watch the rest tonight. I got a book this week called The Unofficial Countryside by Richard Mabey. Iain Sinclair describes Mabey as  the unacknowledged pivot between the new nature writers and those others, of a grungier dispensation, who are randomly (and misleadingly) herded together as ‘psychogeographers’. Iain talks about the other writers too in his introduction to the book; Will Self, J.g Ballard, John Davies, Cobbett, Defoe, John Taylor, John Hillaby, and the most submerged inheritor of the genealogy set out by Mabey in 1973 is the self proclaimed 'deep-topographer', Nick Papadimitriou. Having listened to many of Nick's podcasts and seen a couple of his documentaries, I'm excited to read this book and get a different, older insight into edge lands and what value they bring through Spring to Winter, as Mabey writes it.