More-than-humanising data through sonification

Sound artist Bill Laybourne invited Dudley time rebels to create a collective score inspired by street detectorist findings through noise making. - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3LYcNKJIjY

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Added to Archive Thursday 10 March 2022

Experienced Wednesday 9 March 2022

Last Updated Monday 30 March 2026

Location 52.50965706346207, -2.0844649202541423

Season Winter

Type Sound

Themes Creativity Making People Sounds

Project Stories of Place

Gifted or co-created by Bill Laybourne Elena Thomas Helen Garbett Holly Doron Lorna Prescott

Scale of permanence Hour

What was/is/if What if

Inspired by

High Street mapping

Flood Street Archeology

Poem for Bake ‘n’ Butty

Poem for Ramsey’s

Shopping in groups, families / friends

People chatting / laughing with one another "gossip"

All of the shops are connected

Jamaican music - lively (more smiley people in this area?!)

Sash xxxx Cosmetics nice (best smell)

Faint waft of scented police man and woman

Burgers

Girl's perfume

Top floor - Represents social decay + the action in response

A random yellow (!) traffic cone on the pavement

It's funny how the street is jammed with parked cars @ 5:30pm

Things we wish we could tell you

The House of God!

Industrial aesthetic functional utilitarian

Nico's style - a bit deco!

Broken tile edge

Religion

[What do you notice if you imagine you are a worm / a bird / somebody else?] weed under bench, rusting lamppost, vehicles, business

[What can you hear?] breeze + meal

Christmas lights FESTIVE

friendly surveillance of spiders in the top right corner of the lab - be nice!

More-than-humanising data through sonification

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