Gospel Waves, pg 82 from the Christian Harmony. Recorded at Carmel Woods'  house with a group of singers after the Sheffield Sacred Harp & Shenandoah Harmony Double All-Day singing, Sun 13th October, 2013. 

Gospel Waves, CH 82

Magna Science Adventure Centre is a located on the site of an old disused steel mill in Rotherham. It's a huge, dark and cavernous building with lots of walkways railing off sheer drops which gives it a very eerie, on-edge feeling despite the technicolour, family-friendly nature of the educational play areas. Interspersed throughout are video screens which play clips of recordings telling the vistor about the history of the  Steel, Peech and Tozer steel works and the process of forging steel. The accents are enjoyable.

Voice 032 | Sheffield Steel | 16-08-14

This is a phonebox which I used to pass every day on my way to and from work. One day a few months back it started beeping and I don't know if it ever stopped. Most everyday aural touchstones around the city centre involve beeping (traffic lights, alarms, timers) and machines. This phonebox currently seems to serve no purpose other than to remind people where they are.

Voice 030 | Beeping Phonebox, Merchant's Quay | 12-06-14

Ambient sounds recorded at the General Post Office, Oliver Plunkett St. in Cork, featuring a loud Evening Echo seller stationed outside. 

Voice 029 | Post Office Ambience Echo | 29-04-14

Daire and I trying out the bass and treble of a song in the Sacred Harp, 1991 Denson Edition. Home singings are great for trying out new songs or practicing challenging ones. Of course I have no memory of the page number.

Voice 020 | Bass and Treble Fa Sol La | 11-11-13

Daire and I were in San Francisco on our holidays and to sing some Sacred Harp. We were filling up on authentic San Francisco Mexican food before our flight home with our new friend Gabe Kyne when the taquería was serenaded by a mustachioed man with a guitar. This melody has stuck with me since then. 

Voice 016 001 | Song from a Taquería | 18-09-13

A burglar alarm on an empty house had been beeping unceasingly for a few days, so my neighbour Kevin mobilised some troops and we went up there to silence it.

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