The Domestic Soundscape making, listening, thinkingfelicityford@outlook.com
Rustles and Cheer…
Today’s morning bought lovely surprises when I switched on my PC and found Colleen’s beautiful Amaryllis, Kate’s gorgeous photo with waxing moon, Liz’s cheery, steaming coffee mugs and Caro’s amazing photos of her garden. Many of my friends are a drive, or a very long drive or sometimes a boat or an aeroplane trip away […]
SOUND BANK Advent Calendar
Last year around the end of October I created the stationery for my SOUND BANK project. To do this, I screenprinted SOUND BANK onto 365 glassine envelopes along with space for the date, a title and a record number. Then I created for each envelope a letterpress-printed card on which to record (by means of […]
The People’s Museum
Last Wednesday, Stav and I headed over to Crowthorne to check out Jon Lockhart’s project, The People’s Museum. In a small community hall, we drew items we had selected from our own collections to submit to the museum. I took the blue and white dotty-handled ladle that Caro sent me for my birthday a few […]
Audible Fields
Last Sunday I made a journey to Bristol in the evening to attend Audible Fields, organised by Matt Davies as part of the All Around You festival. Audible Fields was presented in the cube cinema and involved all the seats in the tiny auditorium being fitted with a headphone jack through which binaural recordings could […]
In praise of Critical Engagement
I was recently prompted to blog about this by an exchange I had with Julia who writes the immensely enjoyable Historic Fibers blog. I recently enjoyed her post about Art Appreciation, though I disagree with her admittedly tongue-in-cheek assertion that the way to deal with inscrutable artworks is to maintain that they are ‘about the […]
Swaledale sea socks – a maritime yarn
This is the first sock I have made in which sound was an influence, and I think it may well be my very favourite sock. Last year when I was staying in Sussex, Kate and I took a walk on the beach and I found myself comparing the gorgeously light crunch of the seashells and […]
Dyeing with Black Walnuts
Spurred on by all your encouraging comments re: the tester-strip scarf, I have been on a spree of dyeing using those walnuts I told you about. Here is the basket of walnuts that Ruth and I gathered on Tuesday. This is Saint Mary’s Butts in Reading, and if you stand exactly where I was standing […]
Botaknits
This is the woad I planted and in 2007, when I lived in Oxford. And here is the yarn I dyed using that woad, along with some sunflower-heads, rhubarb leaves and brambles, along with tin, iron, copper and alum mordants. I spent some time organising all those colours into different shades, and I created a […]
Anthem by Simon James French
I met Simon James French at Middlesex University when I was working on the Cut and Splice Domestic Soundscape podcast series. Along with several other artists he came to the informal workshops/classes I gave there about Sonic Wallpaper and contributed to the discussions on that topic which ended up in podcast #2 of the series, […]
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