Speakers by Steven Ball
A Speakers' Corner is an area where public speaking is allowed. The original and most noted is in the north-east corner of Hyde Park in London, England. Speakers there are allowed to speak as long as the police consider their speeches lawful. I spent an afternoon recording some of the speakers, later recomposing the sound and the spoken text, layering and manipulating my own re-performances with the originating recordings.
Tracklist
| 1. | Crowd | 0:40 |
| 2. | This Global Warning | 1:50 |
| 3. | In My House | 2:24 |
| 4. | Je--s | 4:43 |
| 5. | I'm Gonna Sing... | 1:30 |
| 6. | Name One Goddess | 1:44 |
| 7. | Herstory | 2:39 |
| 8. | Goddess Loop | 0:45 |
| 9. | Crowd (slight return) | 0:19 |
Credits
voice and sonic collage: Steven Ball
voices: various speakers at Speakers' Corner, Hyde Park, London
License
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Steven Ball has been working as an artist since the early 1980s, in film, video, sound, installation, and performance, and has been a member of the post-punk DIY group Storm Bugs. In 2014 he started writing and recording songs as a solo project, being particularly concerned with experimenting with which kinds of texts might constitute a song lyric.