{"id":4731,"date":"2012-12-09T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-09T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=4731"},"modified":"2012-12-06T00:35:27","modified_gmt":"2012-12-06T00:35:27","slug":"wendys-loom-09-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=4731","title":{"rendered":"Wendy’s loom – 09 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first wallpaper design which I got truly excited about from a sonic perspective was this one, BADDA 4770.<\/p>\n

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BADDA 4770, image © MoDA and used with their kind permission<\/p>\n

Everyone who saw this wallpaper was reminded of spools of thread, while the printing method used to create this paper appears distinctly painterly to contemporary eyes. Perhaps for this reason, quite a few people talked about imagining this wallpaper in some sort of hand-making or craft room. The criss-cross pattern was reminiscent to some eyes of woven textiles. <\/p>\n

For all of these reasons I was interested in finding a weaver who would allow me to record the rhythmic operations of hand-weaving, and also in recording the sounds of clocks. The clocks were important because – like this wallpaper pattern – they are in reality quite busy and active, yet often recede into the background of daily life. The loom and the clock became the central tenets around which to organise all the other sound elements in this Sonic Wallpaper<\/em> piece.<\/p>\n