sounds for an empty house - livestream

Two people are standing in a partially demolished room with exposed brick walls, white tiled walls, and red tiled flooring. The room is cordoned off with red and white striped tape, and a microphone stand is set up on the floor.

A 24-hour live-streaming broadcast from Plas Bodfa

Sounds created by the house itself and its immediate surroundings were live-mixed, augmented and manipulated by invited, local sound artists and creatives.

Saturday, 26 June, beginning at sunrise (05:00)
live for 24 hours until
Sunday, 27 June, ending at sunrise (05:00)

The Artists

On the Radio

Top left: sketch of a large house with rounded towers and a front porch. Top right: blue background with white text 'The World This Weekend' and a small Earth globe illustration in the letter 'O'. Bottom left: blue background with BBC Radio 4 logo. Bottom right: a man with glasses and headphones standing in front of a microphone in a room with peeling wallpaper.
A collage featuring four images: a woman promoting the Arts Show Wales on a poster, a girl playing violin outdoors on rocks in a green landscape, a man working with colorful wires and electronic equipment in a dimly lit room, and a line drawing of an empty house with the caption "sounds for an empty house" in green text.

In Print

A thoughtful review of the ‘Sounds from an Empty House’ 24-hour livestream by James Lloyd for the Wales Arts Review

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A man in a yellow shirt and dark jacket stands in a room with sound recording equipment, holding a microphone boom pole. The room has a textured wall with a small window and a mirror, with a newspaper headline about sound art and a subheading about capturing sounds from an empty house.

Sounds for an Empty House is a project of Soundlands and Plas Bodfa Projects
in collaboration with Amgueddfa Llwch and Oscilloscope.