{"id":494,"date":"2009-03-23T13:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=494"},"modified":"2009-03-23T13:02:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T13:02:05","slug":"s-h-e-e-p","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedomesticsoundscape.com\/wordpress\/?p=494","title":{"rendered":"S H E E P"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday, my S H E E P focussed field-recording show played on London’s Resonance FM<\/a> as part of the Framework afield programme series<\/a>. You can stream the podcast for yourself here<\/a> on the Framework website, for one week only.<\/p>\n

Here are the notes.<\/p>\n

\/*framework*\/ – phonography \/ field recording; contextual and
\ndecontextualized sound activity
\npresented by patrick mcginley<\/p>\n

*S H E E P *<\/p>\n

Featuring highlights from Greg Wagstaff, the Sounding Dartmoor project and the excellent Freesounds archive, this episode of Framework has largely been arranged around Felicity Ford’s sheep-related recordings.<\/p>\n

Since October 2008, Felicity has been informally researching the history of the British Wool Trade in writing, knitting and sound-recording. Her explorations have taken her into the bleak Romney Marshes where wool
\nwas smuggled out of the country for hundreds of years, into smallscale spinning mills, and on the daily rounds of a Wensleydale flock keeper. Growing her own crop of Woad and recording the process of turning it into a dye, she has also met with sheep farmers and learned about the related Indigo-dyeing process.<\/p>\n

The sonic aspects of the British Wool Trade recording journey so far have been like wool itself; full of the stories of people, animals and the land, full of the loudness, earthiness, laughter and straightforwardness that accompany hard work, scratchy like the kemp in fleece, and sometimes – like knitting – repetitive, soft, and quiet.<\/p>\n

Websites related to the show:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.woolcraftwithwensleydale.com\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.diamondfibres.co.uk\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/sounds.bl.uk\/<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/www.freesound.org\/index.php<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/prickyourfinger.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

00:00 – 00:42 \/ acclivity \/ Herdofsheep.wav \/ freesound project<\/p>\n

00:42 – 02:53 \/ acclivity \/ sheepandlambs.mp3 \/ freesound project<\/p>\n

02:53 – 03:04 \/ felicity ford \/ sick lamb<\/p>\n

03:04 – 03:52 \/ felicity ford \/ hog in wool<\/p>\n

03:52 – 07:11 \/ felicity ford \/ Julia Desch talks about breeding<\/p>\n

07:11 – 07:28 \/ felicity ford \/ miscellaneous baas<\/p>\n

07:28 – 08:11 \/ felicity ford \/ Julia Desch talks hay<\/p>\n

08:11 – 08:49 \/ felicity ford \/ Baa-ing Wensleydales<\/p>\n

08:49 – 13:56 \/ felicity ford \/ a ewe calling for her Son, her Ram-lamb<\/p>\n

02:53 – 13:56 all recorded at Beech Hill Farm, Sussex, with Julia Desch
\nand her small flock of Wensleydale Sheep<\/p>\n

13:56 – 14:54 \/ dobroide \/ Sample :: 20080302.sheeps.close.wav \/
\nfreesound project<\/p>\n

14:54 – 26:24 \/ greg wagstaff \/ Sheep herding\/whistle \/ Sharpening
\nscissors\/shearing \/ Barvas Fank \/ Generator start [distant] \/ Electric
\nshears \/ Touring Exhibition of Sound Environments \/ Earminded Label<\/p>\n

26:24 – 29:08 \/nancy sinclair \/ Farmers collecting sheep for their
\nannual shearing, near Two Bridges in Devon \/ Sounding Dartmoor \/ John
\nLevack Drever http:\/\/www.rermegacorp.com\/<\/p>\n

29:08 – 30:48 \/ felicity ford \/ Rachael Matthews’ Spinning Wheel<\/p>\n

30:48 – 33:18 \/ felicity ford \/ Diamond Fibres Smallscale spinning mill<\/p>\n

33:18 – 34:46 \/ felicity ford \/ the sea at Dymchurch \/ Rachael Matthews’
\nswift \/ Dymchurch Beach<\/p>\n

34:46 – 37:36 \/ felicity ford \/ harvesting the waxy woad leaves<\/p>\n

37:36 – 40:32 \/ felicity ford \/ woad dyebath preparations<\/p>\n

40:32 – 46:41 \/ felicity ford \/ indigo dyebath & sheep farmer talk<\/p>\n

46:41 – 50:22 \/ felicity ford \/ knitting<\/p>\n

50:22 – 54:52 \/ greg wagstaff \/ Scraping crotal\/lichen off a rock \/
\nTraditional wooden hand loom [Joan MacLennan] \/ Hattersley loom \/ Rapier
\nloom, Lewis castle college tweed workshop, Stornoway \/Touring Exhibition
\nof Sound Environments \/ Earminded Label<\/p>\n

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