{"id":4809,"date":"2012-12-19T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-12-19T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=4809"},"modified":"2012-12-21T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T15:15:42","slug":"rhubarb-jam-19-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=4809","title":{"rendered":"Rhubarb Jam – 19 December"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Colleen said that she would really love to use this Edward Bawden wallpaper inside a Still room<\/a> (where she would make jam, amongst other things…) I felt that the distinctive sounds of preserve-making and a hot, sugary, rolling boil should make it into the Sonic Wallpaper<\/em> piece.<\/p>\n

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SW 2097 (by Edward Bawden) – image © MoDA and used with their kind permission<\/p>\n

I recorded jam-making once before, for an exhibition at The Jam Factory in Oxford. There I wanted to re-introduce a sound which had once existed inside the building, and to use sound to reference the history of the site. However for Sonic Wallpaper<\/em>, I was using the sound of jam-making in a slightly different way; I wanted an industrious-sounding culinary recording to sit under Colleen and Annie’s discussion of putting SW 2097 inside a kitchen or a Still room. Jam-making produces a glutinous sort of a sound to my ears, which is also a little bit scary because of the furious way that it boils stickily, at high temperatures. <\/p>\n

listen to ‘20 – Rhubarb Jam’ on Audioboo<\/a><\/div>\n