The Shetland Wool Map was built using aporee, which is an amazing online resource created by Udo Noll and well worth exploring. – Felicity Ford’s recording of sheep grazing on Sumburgh Head, Shetland To illustrate my love of recording the source of wool, I have taken one of my own recordings from the Shetland Wool Sound Map, which features a lamb calling out to its mother on top of Sumburgh head. You can mix the sheep’s baas with its woolįor anyone who is wondering, this is the offending Shreddies advertisement: My research explores the origins of woollen textiles in the land… through an experimental feminist sonic art praxis with Cagean influences, and intersections with sound studies… and… I am interested in the gendering of technology… and (there is more)… but it really sounds boring when I describe my work this way… which is why I have called my research KNITSONIK, with a K!ĬHORUS: My research is in wool and sounds, I presented only a short version of the song in the stand-up set this podcast includes a more extensive statement on the KNITSONIK mission, set to the beats of Elizabeth Johnston’s spinning wheel and looms operating at ASF, Shetland. Presenting KNITSONIK at BrightClub from Felicity Ford on Vimeo. I have however in the podcast bleeped out a naughty word from the song using my own sheep bells as a bleeper. Please be aware that there is quite a lot of swearing in the video. – KNITSONIK 02 – Knitting with Bells on, by Felicity Fordįirst of all, the song which I begin this episode with is called “KNITSONIK WITH A K” and was composed as part of my first ever stand-up set, performed in Oxford a couple of weeks ago. (If you prefer not to use the player, you can download this episode of KNITSONIK directly from here). This week, the KNITSONIK Podcast is all about Knitting with Bells on. There may well be some accordion music… there will always be some knitting… and the sounds will be AMAZING! Who is up for this? Are you game? Then let me fire up my mixing desk, my sound-recordings archive, my microphones, and my SONIK devices! I wanted to see if there is a nice way I can share all of this with you, and whether I have any comrades out there who may be interested in joining me on a fortnightly basis, to explore connections between WOOL and SOUNDS. I am sitting on a mountain of recorded sounds from Cumbria, Estonia, and Shetland, and my brain is overflowing with ideas connecting KNITTING with SOUNDS. This is the first in a series of experiments in adapting some of the KNITSONIK concepts and recordings to a rough and ready podcast format.
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