Baby With the Sound of its Own Making

2009
Photograph with Accompanying Audio

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Below is a transcribed conversation about the piece with lecturer Richard Bell:

AC Let me set it up for you. OK, so that’s umm. So it would be playing, but I haven’t got..
RB -Playing what?
AC Well, hang on, I’ll show you.
RB Gurgling sounds..
AC -I’ve got sound I’ve just gotta turn it on. Oh oops, it’s locked. It’s not playing yet. Now. Is it too loud? It goes on for twenty minutes.
RB Twenty minutes?!
AC So you might not wanna listen to all of it.
RB Does it develop?
AC No. It technically develops.
RB It’s noise. It doesn’t develop.
AC But it develops. Get it?
RB Yeah, yeah. I get it. It develops.
AC [giggles]
RB Oh, this is the sound of you developing the picture.
AC Yeah.
RB Oh right. Does that –does that become any clearer?
AC No.
RB It could be you washing the dishes.
AC Something kinda exciting happens at one point.
RB Does it?
AC You have to stick it out.
RB You have to stick it out? Oh right. Do you –I’ll wait then. All right. OK. And who is this child.
AC My nephew.
RB Your nephew.
AC And that –I’m gonna umm –I’m gonna like attach it with Velcro and have this kinda stick down there and have it playing.
RB Mmm.
AC But so I can get to it to change the batteries. I’m hoping to put it in the umm artist book room of the degree show.
RB What’s the artist’s book room?
AC There’s umm literally just a room kind of separate from the rest of the degree show where people are putting little books and stuff.
RB Right. What this, the kinda uh G. 03?
AC No it’s not. It’s separate to that as well.
RB Mmm.
AC Is that –by G. 03 you mean the like..
RB The project room.
AC The hub yeah.
RB Yeah.
AC Yeah, or whatever it’s called.
RB Yeah.
AC No, it’s another one.
RB Another one. Oh right.
AC Which Francesco decided would be nice just cause uh quite a few of –of us do little things like books.