The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Art projects
I SPY / I HEAR
Does anyone else remember the old I SPY books? I have recently taken to collecting old I SPY books via ebay and I must confess to having become mildly obsessed. There are several reasons for this. I SPY books are immensely well-designed objects. The clear instructions, unfussy typefaces and excellent illustrations are genuinely useful for […]
Home from Berlin
Berlin is amazing. I wish we had been able to visit for longer, but it was very exciting to get a couple of nights there and – natürlich – it was wonderful to see Christine Hill and inspiring to see her work – DIY Bauhaus – included in the Bauhaus Modell exhibition in the Martin […]
Christine Hill and Volksboutique
In 2002 when I was studying for my BA at Dun Laoghaire in Ireland we took a field trip to Liverpool to visit the Biennial. There was much to see at the Biennial but the work that made the greatest impression on me was Christine Hill’s Volksboutique Accounting Archive which was installed in the Pleasant […]
An experiment in podcasting…
A podcast by Felicity Ford exploring the various imaginative ways that one could create garments out of the landscape and history of London. This episode is entitled Episode 1 of The Wandering Maker: Singing Aplacas and Various Buttons.
Walbury, Combe and Buttermere
On Monday we went walking. The extent of our forward planning involved me impatiently hunting for the densest patch of contour lines on the map and then directing Mark to them. Walking in The Highlands has given me a thirst for hills and although Walbury Hill is comparitively very modest at 297m, it is the […]
Sonic Gardening
Rustling flora Joe Swift recently had an interesting article in The Times about sound in the garden. Encouraging gardeners to open our ears, Swift talked about the joys of using all five senses in the garden and on my recent walking expeditions, I have found myself extending his ideas to the wider environment. Some things […]
August Online…
July offline was very eventful and the experiment was wholly successful. I didn’t keep myself 100% Internet free, I must confess. Missing some blogs just too much to bear, plus some necessary work-related admin and a few important fact-finding missions lured me into cyberspace on several occasions but the hours of staring at a computer-screen […]
July Offline
See you in August!
July Offline, Woolfest etc.
Thanks so much everyone for all the birthday wishes. It’s really been a magical few days and I am already feeling settled into my 30s. I’ve been busy enjoying my birthday gifts since yesterday and today I made a cyber-zombie from a book called Creepy Cute Crochet which I was given by the rest of […]
FO: Carolyn’s Sweater
Today I personally delivered the completed Gansey/Guernsey of Carolyn Rawlinson to Prick Your Finger, in order that it get to The Jerwood Space in time for the Contemporary Makers Exhibition that Rachael’s UFO Project Administration Service is going to be shown in. Rachael made me take a photo of the rough bit on my finger […]
Post of today #2: UFO
Does anyone remember this? It’s a massive Gansey/Guernsey (could someone more knowledgeable than I please advise re: the correct garment terminology?) that I gained via the marvellous UFO Project Administration Service, set up by Rachael Matthews and due to exhibit from 10th June to 19th July in The Jerwood Space as part of The Contemporary […]
Post of today #1: FO
I present, first of all, one FO. It is knit from sounds and interviews and recordings and old tapes and meetings with artists and other such things of joy and you can hear it here, or here. I am very pleased with this, the first in a series of four podcasts, commissioned by Sound and […]
Sound Diaries conference
Come! 4th June 2009, 1000-1700 Oxford Brookes University The Sonic Art Research Unit at Oxford Brookes is hosting a conference focusing on the collection, organisation and presentation of documentary sound building on the activities of the Sound Diaries website. The emphasis is on unprocessed everyday sounds alongside projects or practices that explore their use. The […]
Mending the pipes
You may remember the dripping faucet in my bedsit that inspired this artwork? Record the sound that keeps you awake at night, Felicity Ford, 2009, pillow, permanent ink, faucet stamp, pillow-speakers, CD player, audio recording of permanently looped dripping tap sound, title and basic concept taken from Learning to love you more by Miranda July […]
Karen and the schedule of the week
A few weeks ago I interviewed Karen of Karen magazine. It was a real privilege to be able to visit Karen at her home, to meet her partner, her cat and her friends, and to experience the locale in which Karen magazine is so deeply rooted. And it was marvellous to meet Karen herself and […]
Sonic Wallpaper
Quietly in the background, a revolution is taking place in the British wallpaper Industry. Contemporary patterns are no longer the preserve of an elite… – From Sanderson’s Three Arts Exhibition of wallpaper and fabrics, 1954 – 55, quoted in The Musem of Domestic Design and Architecture’s current exhibition, Designer Style: Home Decorating in the 1950s […]
The best mixtape anyone ever made me!
The extremely long drive from Cumbria to London and back to Reading on Wednesday was smoothed out massively by a really excellent mixtape that Phillipa sent to me. Rachael and I had our ears filled with rich audio goodness from the lake district to home because of the smart, exuberant selection she included. Listening several […]
Mark Vernon & Pause Buttons
As I mentioned before, I visited with Mark Vernon the weekend before last and we talked at length about his amazing collection of amateur tape recordings, approaches to composing and the whole relationship to sound that develops when you get seriously interested in recording it. I really value the opportunity to talk to other artists […]
Mixtapes #2
At the weekend I was lucky enough to visit with Mark Vernon who is an artist living in Glasgow and producing a lot of interesting work. Mark Vernon’s tapes. Some of the main influences on Mark Vernon’s practise are old, found cassette tapes. For some time now Vernon has made a point of seeking out […]
Of mixtapes and men…
Genius to fall asleep to your tape last night So warm Sounds go through the muscles These abstract wordless movements They start off cells that haven’t been touched before These cells are virgins Waking up slowly My headphones They saved my life Your tape It lulled me to sleep Nothing will be the same I’m […]
S H E E P
On Sunday, my S H E E P focussed field-recording show played on London’s Resonance FM as part of the Framework afield programme series. You can stream the podcast for yourself here on the Framework website, for one week only. Here are the notes. /*framework*/ – phonography / field recording; contextual and decontextualized sound activity […]
The Sonic Breakfast Plate, SOUNDBANK and graphic scores
I was intrigued recently to note that at the same time that Love is Awesome was taking place, Grupat – a show featuring many installations and works relating to sound and objects – was running in Ireland. It is just my luck that an incredible, not-to-be-missed show was on at the same time as my […]
WIP – Transistor Radio
One of the assignments I set myself to undertake during Love is Awesome, was the recreation of the transistor radio detailed in the 1972 Ladybird book, ‘Making a Transistor Radio.’ I am not the first person to have thought of this and I am poorly versed in the complexities of circuitry. But the clear diagrams […]
Love is Awesome video
I have made a short video of Love is Awesome. The video is just still shots, set to recordings I made inside the gallery space and you can see it on Youtube here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C5j3Opb5xQ
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