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I am currently in Paris and the city is on strike, no metro since last Thursday and no signs of disruption resolution. There is an energy on the streets, packed with pedestrians, bikes, scooters, cars at a standstill with their driver’s resting reading books. It is often not until transport systems are disrupted that I notice the structures in place that keep people moving along.

This experience has caused me to think more deeply about the paths we all choose to use and inhabit daily in a city like water forming streams and what happens when there is a blockage, what does the burst look like? How to diffuse the pressure? Everyone surfaces

Car horns beep and tires screech, train door rhymes and TFL mantras loop around on repeat, all these machine responses to the commute, does this stop us screaming? Is the mantra there to keep the rhythm, create the rhythm even and set the pace for commuting bodies in the tunnels.

(feeling out here Ella Finer notes on moving through a city- ‘loud speakers control our movement around cities’)

Ella Finer (from crafting a sonic urbanism, conference in Paris, Theatrum Mundi- A politics of Resonance, the commons and the square) - talk surrounded a protest action in July 1983 outsideHouse of Commons - communities

women walking the perimeter (of the square outside the house of commons London, practice wailing, a call for the dead, keening Greenham women peace camp Collective coral actions- use sound to penetrate the building - poly vocal sound - amplify voice without microphones (microphones not allowed within a certain distance of the house of commons)
common tune, common melody, vocalising in our way
making me think about this idea of kitchen table conversations, places to vocalise, how to vocalise

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train platform gallery and reading room, accessible and in a place where you are passing through and absorbing information

Under/Valued Energetic Economy map draped over the table as a table cloth I would like one as a tea towel, images of arrows like a weather report arrows wind directions predictions

aprons with printed lists on — research manifesto by Kyla Harris extensive lists begins with love and hydration moves through to things that hurt like what do you need? and if you know it listen to it... simultaneously hurt and are helpful, howl!

mmm tuned me into things that are valuable; care, supportive female friendships, ingesting;
food, knowledge, feels good helps you grow with others ....

Digital Archive of Artists Publishing:
equally valuing the people at the kitchen table who first discussed an idea to the editor of a publication archiving with an emphasis on inclusively and accessibility from the start

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Palais de Tokyo
Kengne Teguia

I put a spell on you, pop music, webcam music video vibe
different sounds- personal harmonies - person who encounters sounds differently. feel the vibrations sat on wooden benches embedded with speakers- feel like a sound wave- let
into the experience feeling through vibrations.

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Felicia Atkinson
b.1981 Paris
composer, sculptor, painter, poet, label- Shelter Press

I listened to her album The Flower and The Vessel while on a coach journey from Paris- Lille-London 9 hour shift long journey

Windmills
Moderato Cantabile
sounds like change (coins) trains, pulling in, metallic chain slipping, recording water and you
hear the rocks

5.

swole fire cider workshop

herbs and spices and roots horseradish, tea from plants in the marshes, chew on horseradish root - thinking about how digestion is affected and what to ingest. wintery support recipes

4 weeks to infuse, thinking about how the solution will have changed in that time, & what we will experience during that period. Learnt about how herbs can help me, thyme for a cough