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Sounds of Latimer

2023

Sounds of Latimer is an immersive, multi-speaker, outdoor audio installation that charts the history, present day, and future aspirations for the Latimer area through oral histories, community voices, and audio recordings that are unique and identifiable to the residents of the local area; sounds of the trains passing at Ladbroke Grove station, the chatter of market traders on Portobello, the music of the local steel pan band, the magpies on the local estates.

The installation, imagined by Portobello Radio, was created and installed for the 'Festival of Small Events' on 24-25 June 2023 in West Kensington, London.

This work could not have been made without community contributions as well as contributions from Portobello Radio archive shows. Also included in the audio were; Grenfell Inquiry recordings, Poetry from Grenfell survivors, voices from residents of Frestonia, a mutli-channel spatial recording of the silent walk for Grenfell, and soundscapes created by young people from Kids On The Green.

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