The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Listening
Making badges and collecting sounds
…of pneumatic tubes, Naiant X-X microphones, badgemaking, turbans, bricks, pigeons and phonography.
KNITSONIKTM
…of KNITSONIK, stationery, design, customisation, artistry, knitting, sounds and Prick Your Finger.
The rise of the Pentax SLR
…of SLRs, frameworks, ways of seeing, shutterspeeds, things I espied, blackbirds, woolstaplers, technology, wisteria and brothers.
KNITSONIKTM
Announcing A NEW PROJECT: KNITSONIKTM KNITSONIKTM is preparing for its first residency at the Prick Your Finger gallery between 4th – 12th May, 2011. What is this? The KNITSONIKTM residency is an intensive study period during which Felicity Ford will stay in the imaginatively fertile and woolly environment of the Prick Your Finger Haberdashery & […]
Harp and Things for Active Crossover
I am working on a new piece for a performance next Friday at The Rising Sun Arts Centre in Reading. The performance is part of Active Crossover; a project by Simon Whetham. Here is some information on Active Crossover: Active Crossover 2011 ‘Active Crossover’ will be running in four gallery spaces in the year 2011. […]
Mixtapes and Messy Tuesdays
I was so excited to read Kirsty’s post reviving the Messy Tuesdays concept that I immediately vowed to write a Messy Tuesdays post of my own this week. Happily I am never short of a creative mess or two (or three or four or five…) to document on Messy Tuesdays, and the affirmative power of […]
FUNLIST!
Here’s what’s on my FUNLIST this week; a mostly-ticked off list, which is full of the sounds I need to record whilst here in Wales, staying with Brenda and Tonia and their adorable animals. The sounds relate to the project Brenda talked about in her last podcast; Jasper in Brenda’s knitting basket; keeping busy and […]
Podcasts review
Since I began producing podcasts I have become a frequent consumer of them. As a consumer of podcasts, I love that I can curate very specific listening experiences from the smorgasbord of free audio that exists on the Internet. As a producer of podcasts, I like that the DIY nature of the podcast means it […]
Tea and Biscuits
The past few months have been manic. Since my PhD studies came to an end and my AHRC funding ran out, I am relying 100% on my own wits and skills to make an income. I am trading as a self-employed artist, which is not the fantastically high-paid profession that one might hope. However, I […]
Audiograft, TEA and THE SONIC TUCK SHOP
I spent today sawing and drilling and swearing at broken drill bits and I shall spend tonight editing audio and writing a script. Why? Because tomorrow I am setting up my work for Oxford Brookes’ Audiograft festival. Before I get right back onto tonight’s editing and varnishing, I wanted to share with you here the […]
FO: Brenda’s Mitts
I started knitting these fingerless mitts (Fresco Fair Isle Mitts by Pam Allen, Interweave Knits, Fall 2008) way back in October when I last visited with Brenda and Tonia. Casting these on represented the start of the ALICE STARMORE YARN MANIA (which has pretty much reigned over my knitting ever since) and I am really […]
Around the A4074 now available for download
Since many of you emailed to say you missed the BBC iplayer and didn’t hear the show on Boxing Day, I posted it here for download. However the show was downloaded so many times that I have had to pay for excess bandwidth on this site! Additionally, the mp3 file for Around the A4074 was […]
Harefields
When I visited Aunty Hilary in Hospital, I took some knitting with me. What I took was this hat – Harefields – which I was making for Mark. It is his annual Christmas-present hat, and it was completed for just after Christmas as is now seemingly an annual tradition round here. The hat is knit […]
Aunty Hilary
I am very sad today because yesterday my Godmother died. She was 91 years old. Although she was not technically my Aunt, (she tried to explain the family tree to me many times and I was never able to fathom its complexities) the whole family has always referred to Hilary as “Aunty Hilary,” and she […]
Around the A4074
Here is the tracklist for Around the A4074, which will be available to hear on the iplayer for one week. Soundwalk stationery, created for World Listening Day, (July 18th) and designed to draw attention to the sounds around the A4074 especially around Dorchester, Warborough and Shillingford Joe Moran speaking about his book, On Roads and […]
Around the A4074: 6pm Boxing Day, BBC Oxford
Some of you may be interested to learn that the radio show I dreamt up back in October 2009 will air on Boxing Day at 6pm on BBC Oxford. In Around the A4074 I explore how the everyday context of the commute may be considered differently. There are interviews with Joe Moran – writer of […]
The wind that shakes the barley
The first things I did after moving in with Mark and redecorating our bedroom involved 1. creating a sock-knitting area in the bottom of my wardrobe and 2. curating a shelf-load of books on my side of the bed themed around adventures and journeys. I organised my books and my sock-knitting books/yarns etc. in tandem […]
Knitted seas.
A long time ago I wrote this post which touched on the idea of connecting places and seasons to specific yarn colourways. I compared some of the fabled WOLLMEISE to the distinctive steely blues and ragged yellow leaves spotted around Weymouth and Portland late that Autumn. Weymouth, October 2007 Much has happened since I coveted […]
Sound:Site – Thanks everyone!
Thanks to everyone who was involved in Sound:Site. I hope everyone came away with something… with ideas about what it means to record sounds and with ideas about how we can play more in the world. I really loved the whole day, and have huge respect for all the projects and artists who represented their […]
Sound:Site festival information
Venue: South Hill Park, Bracknell, RG12 7PA. UK Box Office: Tel 01344 484123 Sound:Site – Sonic Arts Festival Date: Saturday 2nd October Time: 10.00-5.30pm / 7.00pm evening concert Tickets: £26.00 / £18.00 (students/membs) Box Office: 01344 484123 Talks and demonstrations exploring the Internet as a destination for making and showing artwork, for sharing sounds, bringing […]
Brain food
I had two especially interesting culinary conversations with folks at Sounding Out last week. The first was occasioned by Chris Chafe’s presentation and in particular the section concerning his ‘Tomato Quintet,’ and the second one involved a discussion about blog stats with Marcus Leadley – a fellow artist who, like myself, sometimes blogs about academic, […]
Back to School
It has been a good week. I enjoyed writing and presenting my paper on Wednesday at Sounding Out 5 and meeting the other folks there. My paper was about my use of radio as an artist and how sound is important to me in terms of both discovering a sense of place, and being able […]
Knitting, Sounds, & Good Weekends continued…
I posted a few months ago about the importance of Good Weekends and so far, that is what today and tomorrow are shaping up to be. Incidentally, the grunting pigs sound which I posted from Mudchute Farm on that post is now up on the UK SoundMap (my new favourite thing!) and The London Sound […]
Around the A4074 NOT going out on bank holiday Monday…
This was going to be an amazing post highlighting my upcoming radio show for this Monday, on BBC Oxford… but unfortunately, the BBC are not, afterall, going to be playing my show out on that date. In one sense this is discouraging; I have worked very hard on ‘Around the A4074’ throughout this whole summer, […]
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