stethoscope recording

Sound heard: breath before sleep:inhalation and exhalation through nose

Name of track: Breath before sleep 08.06.

Stethoscope contact: on bone – right side of nose

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08.06.2020

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

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Accompanying text from distant place:

“In the evening, the lights on the ward are dimmed, and those in the rooms are switched off… You have to look more at, what shall I say, you listen more to their breathing when the patient is asleep, if it changes in any way, or some other disturbing element in the patient, maybe more often, and then you have to, because there’s no light you might not see any variation in colour (in the patient) but you may – you feel..” (A nurse Interviewed; 2008)

Stockholm Sweden (Latitude: 59.3513 Longitude: 18.0260.)

Reference: Working in dim light.

Night nursing – staff’s working experiences Published: 31.10.2008

https://bmcnurs.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1472-6955-7-13

(accessed on line 08.06.2020)

Sound Diaries

In 2008 Felicity Ford and Paul Whitty set up a project with the aim of recording everyday life in sound – to resist the overwhelming tide of visual images of the everyday and to meet it with the abundant soundings of vending machines, luggage carousels, toasters, escalators, boilers, garden sheds, wheeled luggage. We followed the writer Georges Perec’s instruction to exhaust the subject, not to be satisfied with a cursory glance, not to be satisifed to have identified what you already know – what you have already heard – but to look again or in our case to listen, to keep listening, to listen long after it would probably have been more sensible to stop. That project was Sound Diaries.

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