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The Ice Factory

from Dead Sound Ethnographics by James Wyness

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The Ice Factory was originally commissioned by Czech radio station Radiocustica. It makes use of processed sounds of the ice factory at Eyemouth in Scotland, of the fishing vessel White Heather VI, and the sounds of found objects and materials recorded in the studio.

In the early spring of 2013 I investigated aspects of our relationship with the sea and fishing: how the sea shapes life on the coast and impacts on the inland communities; the connections and the flow of ideas in both directions. The outcomes were intended to effectively engage with the materiality of place and the trades, crafts and lives of people living in the fishing town of Eyemouth and Selkirk in the inland Borders of Scotland.

By means of field recordings, aspects of a specific working environment and the influence of this environment on the lives of men and women in the fishing industry were examined. I wanted to explore the use of sound in gauging the health of seafaring vessels and related industrial installations. I knew that sailors used to, and probably still do, use their ears as much as their eyes to judge whether a vessel is ‘sound’, whether it sails well. This important form of occupational auscultation, or aural diagnosis, is used across many domains of working life, from industry to agriculture to science to domestic and everyday life. I sought also to strengthen and develop an existing investigation into the ethnography of technology in the Borders in which I was exploring industrial auscultation in the textile industry. In this respect I set out to develop my archive of recordings from working textile mills and to establish the extent to which the ear of the machine operator is used in gauging the ‘health’ of his or her machine.

The Ice Factory is dedicated to Robin Aitcheson who ran the Ice Factory for many years and who passed away suddenly in July 2014.

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from Dead Sound Ethnographics, released February 17, 2016

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