Created as part of the AHRC funded Ambient Literature project at the Digital Cultures Research Centre, Watershed, Bristol, and winner of the if:book New Media Writing Prize in 2017.
Developed in collaboration with published author James Attlee, The Cartographer’s Confession is an immersive smartphone experience that takes place in sites across London. Combining fiction and non-fiction, imagined and real locations, it is a tale of migration and loss, hope and retribution. Personal cassette recordings made by cartographer Thomas Andersen, along with letters, notes and original 1940s photographs, lead the reader to the dark secret at the story’s heart. Featuring 3D soundscapes, illustrations and a bespoke musical score by group The Night Sky.
Author: James Attlee
Producer, experience design: Emma Whittaker
Graphic design, visual interface design: James Brocklehurst
Illustrations: Grace Attlee and James Brocklehurst
App development: Calvium
Actor, playing Catriona Schilling: Emily Woof
Actor, playing Thomas Andersen, Hans, Benny and Ellen: Saul Jaffe
Video production, editor: Screenology, Joe Auborn
Assistant editor: Spencer Ellis
Camera operator: Screenology, Joe Auborn
Camera assistant: Hayden Brown
Wildlife recording: Joe Auborn, Jay Auborn
Sound design, audio production: Jay Auborn, dBs Music Bristol
Sound production team: dBs Music Bristol, Tobias Crane, Leonardo Santos, Charlotte Hughes, Suvi-Eeva Aeikaes, Joseph Yorke-Onions, Tugkan Mutlu
Music: The Night Sky, all tunes, Attlee/Nixon, featuring James Attlee, electric guitars, synthesiser, Ian Nixon, upright bass, acoustic and electric guitar, Josefin Meijer, whistling. With special guests, Jonny Bruce, trumpet and flugelhorn and Temitope Edwards, drums. Recorded at DBs Music Bristol, Robin Christensen-Marriott Productions and 101 Studio, Oxford.
