White Hart Lane

Sound Diaries asked Patrick Tubin McGinley to write about his recording 36,000 for Madrid for the Get Some Chalk On Your Boots! publication edited by Paul Whitty to accompany the exhibition of the same name investigating the sounding cultures of football. You can purchase the publication here and read more about Get Some Chalk On Your Boots! here.

36,000 for Madrid: Recorded on the 14th of March, 2004 at White Hart Lane, before a match between Tottenham Hotspur and Newcastle United.

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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