The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Valuing Reality
Walk 2012 guidebook writing
…of Autumnal treasure, form and function, and the process of designing the Walk 2012 guidebook.
Pauline Oliveros’s Listening Questions
…of Messy Tuesdays, sorting out piles of paper, questioning and exploring the practice of Pauline Oliveros, and Deep Listening.
The Royal Berkshire County Show
…of noisy poultry, finest locally produced yarns, and the softness of sheep’s noses.
Seacliff
…of ancient rocks, Tantallon castle, Seacliff, Gannets and alternative systems for measuring time.
Staying at Mel’s
…of a very pretty cat, some of my favourite folk, and the healing powerz of Edinburgh.
The best laid plans…
…of hand-drawing, careful listening, fortuitous discoveries, Craft NI, and the discovery that sometimes when things go wrong, they end up going right.
The Felicity Ford Radio Show, PILOT
…of the Arty Street Party; Soundmaps; Tuned City; Sonic Cupcakes; Turbans; Eccentricity; and so many amazing sounds.
Tuned City #1
…of Tallinn, tuning the city, and finding the local phonographic lore in strange lands, through creative practices.
22 Gift Bag of Biscuits
…of rules and regulations concerning the complimentary bag of biscuits available on a weekly basis to employees of the Huntley & Palmer Huyton Factory, 1958.
Bricks, Knitting, Biscuits and imaginative diversions
…of knitting, hat-patterns, Huntley & Palmer’s factory, biscuits, BISKITS, Victorian brickwork, water-powered flour mills and other glorious digressions.
FO: Simmer Dim
…of presents, and knitting, and kitties and shawls, and wonderful handspun and other fun prettiness.
Our Working Lives
…of working lives, oral histories, the power of story, Joe Stevens’ Our Working Lives project, and Poole.
The meta data
…of sonic meta-data, meta-data badges, meta-tags for another year, and the beginnings and endings of many things.
Music Lover’s Field Companion
…of John Cage, mycology, mushroom spotting, wandering in The New Forest with my beloved, and getting rained on.
Making badges and collecting sounds
…of pneumatic tubes, Naiant X-X microphones, badgemaking, turbans, bricks, pigeons and phonography.
Walk2012 and the new badgemaker!
…of walking, recording cows, making badges, meeting beasties, and Walk2012.
The rise of the Pentax SLR
…of SLRs, frameworks, ways of seeing, shutterspeeds, things I espied, blackbirds, woolstaplers, technology, wisteria and brothers.
The demise of the Pentax Optio
Readers of this blog will know how much I depend on and love my technology. The Edirol R09 which has been the foundation of my sound-recording practice for 4 years or so now is worn on all the edges; the buttons are smooth; and the complex battery/SD card mechanism at its base has lost some […]
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