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Guild launch the Radio Craftperson’s Toolbox</em></p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Have you ever looked at a
beautiful, handmade object and wondered what it was like to be
there when it was created? A new project by sound artists and
artisans brings the authentic noise of the workshop into your
home.</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The clangs, clinks and
whirrs of the craftmaker’s world will be broadcast to radio
listeners over a 24 hour period on the 3 August. The ‘Radio
Craftperson’s Toolbox’ – a collection of sounds for sampling and
radio production, is published online this summer.<br>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The producers at Totnes
based Soundart Radio (102.5fm), wanted to get behind the scenes at
a different type of studio, to record the tools, textures and
talking of real craftspeople at work. An opportunity arose with
the Community Media Association’s ‘Modulate’ project, which
commissions community radio stations to work with arts
organisations. According to Tamar Millen at the CMA, “<em>Our aim
is to encourage bold formats in community media that engage,
surprise and excite an audience</em>.”</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Soundart Radio leapt at the
chance to team up with the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in Bovey
Tracey, who helped them handpick a group of West Country makers
who would be happy to open their doors and reveal what goes on
inside their studios. The Guild put them in touch with people
working in crafts as diverse as felting, woodturning and litho
printing.</p>
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background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Soundartists were
amazed at what they heard when they visited these local studios –
the repetitive turning of a traditional printing machine, the
flare of the potter’s kiln being lit, the rasping sound of fibres
being pulled apart and the woodturner sharpening his tools. These
unique and unusual sounds been captured for the first time to
create a ‘Radio Craftperson’s Toolbox’ – a collection of sounds to
use in radio production and for artists and others to sample</p>
Read more at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arts.commedia.org.uk/news/hidden-sounds-secret/">http://arts.commedia.org.uk/news/hidden-sounds-secret/</a><br>
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Tamar Millen
Arts Coordinator
Community Media Association
15 Paternoster Row
Sheffield
S1 2BX
0114 2795219
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.arts.commedia.org.uk">www.arts.commedia.org.uk</a>
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