All Terrain #6

Sound heard: breathing and heart after running

Name of track: Breath after running 31.05

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Stethoscope contact: under left ear on ligament

31.05.2020

Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude -2.5829104°.)

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Accompanying text from distant place:

“I can’t breathe.”

George Floyd 25.05.2020

Minneapolis USA (Latitude 44.9778° N, Longitude 93.2650° W.)

Reference:

Khaleda Rahman – George Floyd Death Sparks Outrage.  Newsweek – Accessed online 31.05 2020.

All Terrain #4

Sound heard: breath and heart – sounds resonated in chest.

Name of track:  Breath by ribs22.05

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Stethoscope contact: right lower back rib cage

22.05.2020

Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude -2.5829104°.)

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Accompanying text from distant place:

“Your lungs fill & spread themselves,

wings of pink blood, and your bones

empty themselves and become hollow.”

(Atwood. M)

1987

Massachusetts USA (Latitude 412,3601°, Longitude -71.0589°.)

Reference:

Margaret Atwood – Flying Inside Your Own Body. Found in, Selected Poems II, (1986). Pub. Houghton Mifflin, p.65

All Terrain #1

recordings & text by Shirley Pegna

Sound heard:  body tissue noise and breathing at rest.

Name of track: Body Pressure 11.05

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Stethoscope contact – held still on jaw

11.05.2020

Bristol UK (Latitude 51.4690527°, Longitude -2.5829104°.)

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 Accompanying text from distant place:

 “The temperature is 40 degrees below zero. A man`s breath freezes on his beard; the air is so dry the bone-chilling cold feels half as frigid as it might in moister climes.” (Merlin J)

27.01.1991  

Jokkmokk, Sweden (Latitude 66.6°, Longitude 19.9°.)

Reference:

J.Merin for Chicago Tribune

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-01-27-9101080734-story.html