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this week we continue our look back at some early framework:afield classics, as we revisit our second edition of the series, produced in the uk by artist, author, podcaster, knitter, and longtime friend of the program, felicity ford, aka felix, who would go on to produce, solo and in collaboration, 13 more editions for the series over the years. but this first one has not been heard, even by felix herself, since it was first aired on the 19th of may 2006. for more on what she is up to now, see knitsonik.com. here are the original program notes:
This edition of Framework has been put together by Felicity Ford of the littlesongbox and is a collection of recordings by both established and unreleased artists. Works here include recordings of children’s toys with musical mechanisms “playing,” a composition based on a woman humming along with her radio, an elderly woman singing and playing the piano, Hawaiian birds singing, the sounds created by a piano being tuned, ethnographic field recordings of sound mimesis from Tuva along with recordings of ice melting, swimming pools, computer games, church bells and, of course, some music boxes.
Much thanks to all the contributors for making such great work, for writing such friendly emails, for sending me CDs and for offering insight.
felicity ford, 2006.06
[ playlist ]
The loneliest text message in the world
mobile phone being played like an instrument
Felicity Ford
Unreleased
Bleeps at the supermarket checkout
Supermarket checkout bleeps
Peter Cusack
2001
Your Favourite London Sounds
London Musicians’ Collective
Wobbly bird toy
Metal bird toy with bells inside
Joceline Colvert
Unreleased
Forbidden City
Unedited field recording made in Beijing by Andy Graydon
Unreleased
The Heater
Paula Booker
2004
Released on Spoken and Field
Claudia label / Tim Coster
Humming radio caro cariño
Aeron’s grandmother humming along with the radio
Released on Bousha Blue Blazes
Orthlong Musork
2002/2003
CBLC_Bilder
Field-recording based composition featuring many urban sounds; automated announcements, accordion-playing buskers, train sounds etc.
Andy Graydon
Surrey Street Market
An unedited recording featuring the cries of the street-sellers in surrey street market, Croydon
Felicity Ford
Unreleased
Top ten
A woman with an Australian accent speaking into a mobile phone (this has been mixed over the market recording)
Erica Van Zon
2004
Released on Spoken and Field
Claudia label / Tim Coster
Blackbird Dawn Chorus
The gorgeous sound of urban blackbird song
Peter Cusack
2001
Your Favourite London Sounds
London Musicians’ Collective
Kuiaha Gulch
Unedited field recording of insects and birds in luscious Hawaii
Field recording contributed by Andy Graydon
Unreleased
Birds and Bird Imitations
Ethnographic field recording of birdsong and Tuvan singers impersonating birds
Ted Levin/Joel Gordon
1999
Smithsonian Folkways
Portland stone pieces
2 pieces involving Portland Stone
hammer being dragged over the surface of Portland stone, which apparently has a very beautiful note or ring to it
Portland stone being tapped rhythmically with stone-carving equipment
Joceline Colvert
Unreleased
Floating Icicles Rocked by waves
Peter Cusack
2004
Baikal Ice
ReR Megacorp
Inaccurate
Composition including lots of rain and other field recordings
Tim Coster
2005
Landing
Half/theory release
Tepid Baths
Field recording of swimming pool
Chris Cottrell
2004
Released on Spoken and Field
Claudia label / Tim Coster
A good boy in the bath
A recording of a computer game, a bath being run, many other suburban, domestic sounds
Dave Hall
2004
Released on Spoken and Field
Claudia label / Tim Coster
Ciao Bella Toilet
A visually impaired woman investigating a very funky (epileptic I think is the word she uses) toilet in a bar near a tiny backwater town called Felton somewhere between Big Basin and San Fran.
Isolde Carmody
2004
Unreleased
St Peter’s Church in Brighton
Evening bell-ringing practise in Brighton
Joceline Colvert
Unreleased
Pull Cord Toy
This pull toy has had the internal workings changed so that now instead of playing a happy lullaby it plays a really wonky, minor-key tune
Joceline Colvert
Unreleased
Foundling
A completely unaltered recording of a Japanese pull-toy, followed by the sound of a mouth-organ guitar tuner (this has been somewhat mixed in with the sounds of the piano being tuned in the next recording)
Joceline Colvert
Unreleased
Uncut
An unedited recording exploring the sounds made by a Piano as it is being tuned
J. Frede
2001
Unprepared Piano feat. David Nereson
Current Recordings
Trafik
Composition involving traffic, piano and saxophone
Hans Appelqvist
I don’t know
Aeron’s grandmother singing and playing the piano
Released on Bousha Blue Blazes
Orthlong Musork
2002/2003
Nightingale and Hum
Electrical humming sound plus the singing of a nightingale
Peter Cusack
2001
Your Favourite London Sounds
London Musicians’ Collective
land of the blind
heavily manipulated contact-mic recordings of a music box
Mike Hallenback
The Secret Life of a Music Box
songbox loop 1
a very close-up recording of a music box that plays The Pink Panther this is the loop that was used on the littlesongbox site
2004
Felicity Ford