This was a project that unfortunately was never realised in the fashion it was intended to ultimately be. An audience only got to hear this single work as opposed to a series of episodes and full-blown installation, but this has not been heard since 2007, so enjoy this special little project.

From the programme at the time, 2007:

This work explores the idea of place and identity of the city of Sunderland, working with archive recordings of local residents over the last decade, exposing threads of narrative, which reflect the changing nature of the city and the urban place.

Each episode combines an interviewee with an atmospheric rumbling, dark canvas of sound, creating micro worlds of spoken word. Bits and pieces of people's minutiae are treated as if they were instruments, with each story capturing a piece of local history through the warmth, human frailty and humour of the often-elderly characters.

Days when paper and ribbons were cherished items, days that began early and finished late, days in the railway, down the pit of the coalmine, ‘the good old days.’

Searching beneath the surface of the changing city, the project seeks to explore the hidden resonances and meanings within memory and, in particular, the subtle traces that people and their actions leave behind, capturing stories and anecdotes from locals that resonate with the chosen sites.