Name: Waves of Laughter
Duration: P00H03M20S
Description: Constructed from PA and room recordings of laughter - layered and interwoven with a fragment of harp playing from Cerys Rees. The piece closes with Nikkila Thomas and the community singing ‘My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean’, and the sound of the sea mirroring the waves of laughter in the room.

Waves of Laughter

from sound poems by Alula Down

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Constructed from PA and room recordings of laughter - layered and interwoven with a fragment of harp playing from Cerys Rees. The piece closes with Nikkila Thomas and the community singing ‘My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean’, and the sound of the sea mirroring the waves of laughter in the room.

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Transcription (the voice of one of the Music Memory Cafe’s volunteers)
“... just saying the uncontrollable chuckling of a baby .. you can't help but laugh .. it makes you, it's just …”

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from sound poems, released February 2, 2024
St Briavels Music Memory Cafe, 15.02.23, with the playing, singing and laughter of Nikkila Thomas, Cerys Rees and the MMC community.

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Alula Down Hereford, UK

mark waters & kate gathercole

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