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12 – ice melting onto a large plastic water barrel

ice melting onto a large plastic water barrel – Felicity Ford, 12.12.2008

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10 – servant bells in ditchling museum

servant bells in ditchling museum – Felicity Ford, 10.12.2008

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09 – the wind in the last few leaves of an oak tree; a crow in the oak tree

the wind in the last few leaves of an oak tree; a crow in the oak tree – Felicity Ford, 09.12.2008

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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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