Sounding Knitting, Knitting Sound: in conversation with Felicity Ford

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What do sound and knitting have in common? You’d be forgiven for thinking not much, but both have been constant companions across the life and career of sound artist and knitter, Felicity Ford also know as Felix.

Join sobel as she visits Felix in her St Leonard’s home to talk about her journey into field recording, soundscape composition and using this skillset to document the process of wool production. Felix also shares her perspective on why celebrating domestic sounds is a feminist pursuit, her maverick approach to disruption traditional notions of sonic art and how all of us can find a little magic in the everyday. In fact, isn’t that what art is all about? Felix would argue.

Felix also runs her own online knitting school called Kitsonik, so it only felt right for Isobel to be taught some knitting while we were there.

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• Listen to Felicity Ford’s sound works >>
  
  
• Find out more about Knitsonik >>
  
  
• Read Felicity Ford’s PhD Thesis on the Domestic Soundscape >>

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