The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Art projects
Samples of my work
…of previous work and future work, and the sounds I have produced and the sounds I might in the future produce.
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 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.
How to make your own stamps
…of making the stamps for A Knitter’s Manifesto feat. valley views, Welsh blues and greens, and homemade stamp glue.
World Listening Day, 2011
…of non-sonic reasons for making field recordings and sounds as a socio-political-imaginative currency.
Tuned City #2 – Transphere
…of moving the sounds around, engaging the public, creating new kinds of discussions about sounds, and playing in the streets in a new way.
Tuned City #1
…of Tallinn, tuning the city, and finding the local phonographic lore in strange lands, through creative practices.
Our Working Lives – project led by Joe Stevens
…of biscuit factories, working lives, working clothes, and what to wear to community art events.
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.
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 & […]
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 […]
Katesgrove and Reading Bricks
I have learned from my copy of “Waterloo Sunrise” that the district in which I live is called Katesgrove, and that this area of Reading once housed three kilns from whence the many bricks required to build the town’s Victorian terraced houses came. Our search for the redbrick history of Reading begins at Katesgrove Lane, […]
Viva la Domestic Soundscape!
Yesterday was my perfect kind of day. It started out with an installment of Reading brick-watching* and knit-dreaming. (Don’t all these brickwork patterns just scream “FAIRISLE” at you?) Chequered brickwork. Re-done brickwork wall. TAM-PATTERN brickwork. Wouldn’t it be the most amazing TAM? Brickwork with fine tea urn. Brickwork with ageing shop signage. Brickwork doorway leading […]
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 […]
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 […]
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