The Sunken Hum Sound Diary Natalia Beylis The Sunken Hum Sound Diary: a field recording/sound archive project in 365 parts. Each and everyday in 2013, I recorded two minutes of sounds from my daily life. And then, for 365 days in a row, I published the sounds to the internet to share with the world. I embarked on this phonographic archive with a voyeuristic curiosity that stemmed from a fascination with how humans routinely spend their time and with an intrigue into the regular, recurring noises that makes up the soundscape of life. I figured the easiest way to satiate this curiosity was by dissecting my own typical day and doumenting the sounds that routinely weave themselves through my surroundings. The diary includes everything from solitary chickens singing laments to cattlemart auctioneers chanting the call of farm life to potatoes rumbling as they boxxed in the boiling hot waterpot. A selection from these daily recordings are shared here. Capturing the recordings became a meditative practice. No matter what the chaos of life that was happening around me, for two minutes I could escape into a reality reimagined through headphones. It was like a peculiar removal from the existing moment. While the sound of the world became heightened (and nearly more alive) through the headphones, I felt simultaneously disconnected from the present, having become more an observer than a participant. In 2019, dublin digital radio (ddr) rebroadcast the diary recordings at 12 pm and 6 pm everyday. These are the same times at which the Angelus Bell is played for one minute on Irish radio. This is a religious broadcast. Though I love the idea behind the Angelus (a minute long sound meditation), it is time to separate this meditative moment from anything to do with organised religion. Instead, I'd love to suggest that we give that moment over to the field recordists of Ireland and let them create a daily one minute broadcast that features the myriad of meditative sounds of the island. Come on RTE, sure why not?! The Sunken Hum Sound Diary’s tracks The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 344 - Last Meal For The Lone Chicken by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-12-10T12:48:58Z The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 268 - St Brigids Well And Shrine Clare by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-10-26T11:24:11Z The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 94 - A Man Keeping His Own Company And The Walls Of Jericho by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-04-08T12:25:21Z The Sunken Hum Broadcast 89 - Up at the Caves of Kesh - 30 March by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-03-30T12:17:21Z The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 66 - The BIG Frog Sexy - 7 March by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-03-07T12:05:42Z The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 50 - Hannah The Pig Gets Some Apples by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-02-23T12:28:06Z
The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 344 - Last Meal For The Lone Chicken by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-12-10T12:48:58Z
The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 268 - St Brigids Well And Shrine Clare by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-10-26T11:24:11Z
The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 94 - A Man Keeping His Own Company And The Walls Of Jericho by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-04-08T12:25:21Z
The Sunken Hum Broadcast 89 - Up at the Caves of Kesh - 30 March by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-03-30T12:17:21Z
The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 66 - The BIG Frog Sexy - 7 March by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-03-07T12:05:42Z
The Sunken Hum Sound Diary 50 - Hannah The Pig Gets Some Apples by The Sunken Hum Sound Diary published on 2019-02-23T12:28:06Z