So when doing pieces of writing, i was trying to work out what most of my childhood memories had in common. And i kept coming back to the church bell. My village is small and from wherever you are within it, you can hear the bells going off throughout the day. This isn't irritating though because they are in the distance. I want to produce a piece of writing based around memories which include the church bell.
Alongside this i feel like the appropriate ambient sound for some of my work, would be that of the church bell. I could have this playing ever so slightly in the background. With other gentle sounds.
Bells have a great prominence. They mark time passing, ageing - and on going thing. One of my favourite books is based fully around this loss of time and how we can't stop it. Ian McEwan's book 'The Child in Time' has a prominent bell in it. Here are two great quotes from it (i might put these in the zine i am going to make).
"Time..is always susceptible to human interpretation. And though time is partly a human fabrication, it is also that from which no parent or child is immune"
"Time- not necessarily as it is, for who knows that, but as thought constituted it - monomaniacally forbids second chances"
Alongside this i feel like the appropriate ambient sound for some of my work, would be that of the church bell. I could have this playing ever so slightly in the background. With other gentle sounds.
Bells have a great prominence. They mark time passing, ageing - and on going thing. One of my favourite books is based fully around this loss of time and how we can't stop it. Ian McEwan's book 'The Child in Time' has a prominent bell in it. Here are two great quotes from it (i might put these in the zine i am going to make).
"Time..is always susceptible to human interpretation. And though time is partly a human fabrication, it is also that from which no parent or child is immune"
"Time- not necessarily as it is, for who knows that, but as thought constituted it - monomaniacally forbids second chances"