mary hooper

Artist using sound to create immersive multi media work that evokes 'genius loci' streaming together timelines, memories, and events.

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

discoverwalking in the submerged forest on the Echoes app https://t.co/ZiMoAVZbV9

[Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social) @citiesandmemory]

An amazing day recording the sounds of communities across London for our Migration Sounds project, including a Gurdwara in Southall, Bangladeshi tailoring in Bethnal Green, Polish cookery, Cameroonian preachers & a typical west African barber's shop in Peckham 🎧 #fieldrecording

[Morning Star @M_Star_Online]

“A million people in a physical prison being bombed by weapons supplied by Britain and the United States"

“There is nothing more disgusting I can think of than what we're witnessing on our screens at the present time” - @jeremycorbyn on Israel’s continued bombardment of Gaza

[Jenny Jones @GreenJennyJones]

Dear Ken Clarke. He said this all without notes.
And we all listened.

[TechResort @TechResort]

This morning, Fiona is with @EastbourneFB, on hand to answer any digital questions at St Richard's.

It's fantastic to work alongside the wonderful Foodbank team to provide joined-up support throughout the community.

#digitalinclusion #eastbourne

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

@amolrajan hi I have looked in vain for the live stream of ocean exploration mentioned this morning on @BBCr4today please can you tell me the utube channel to find it on? Thanks

[Julia Hilton @juliahilton10]

I am now Leader of Hastings Council. Labour are calling this a dodgy deal but refused to be part of unity cabinet. https://t.co/9niMNcYymZ

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

Yes very different messages coming fro ACE to pay oneself and co artists proper rates.
200 - 350 a day.
What a joke more like 150 if you’re lucky! So what do you do when scoping out a project,
Put less days in at proper rate or flat fee! Ho hum

[Jon Pratty @jon_pratty]

@SusanJonesArts @SoniaBoue @UKLabour @ThangamMP I see increasing number of smaller-scale funds for artists which appear to encourage individuals to pya themselves less and rely on volunteer culture. Recent 'grants' from a museum near me (south coast) were £1100 or less per artist in return for quite ambitious project proposals

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

@TechResort fancy teaming up with me to do this?
Migration Sounds - a unique global project to discover, explore and reimagine the sounds of migration, settlement, place and exile https://t.co/w6QwZkk096 #migrationsounds via @citiesandmemory

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

These are some of the children I met in Gaza a few years ago. They liked to learn, draw & play.

I have been thinking of these children, clinging to the hope they are still alive.

Do their dreams not matter? Don’t they laugh & cry like other children? Don’t they deserve to live?

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

@bbcnickrobinson @RobertJenrick Your interview with Ms Braverman was so welcome holding her to account. However if Boris and Truss and Sunak can be PM we need to be afraid! Most of UK feel helpless drowning in a sea of fools. How do we turn the tide….

[Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social) @citiesandmemory]

Recording one of the most incredible sounds (and sights!) in nature this week - tens of thousands of mumurating starlings 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ Can't wait to share the recordings with you all!

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

Ah the myth of Eden. We have indeed eaten all the fruit, time to re plant the orchard. #exhibition of a cornucopia of exquisite Adam and Eve clocks, artworks and textiles 50 North Street lewes. 2nd December to 23rd. #adamandeve #artworks #clocks #collectors #artlovers #lewes

[Unexplained Sounds @Sonologyst]

PRE-ORDER NOW!
Sonologyst - Shortwave Spectrum (released by Cold Spring):
https://t.co/dZ2Ia0prOz
Great thanks to the Cold Spring friends for making this new Sonologyst release!

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

Take a walk along the seashore with this audio track, headphones on, eyes shut, sit back and imagine.
@museumofwalking @SoundartRadio @walklistencreate

https://t.co/UsmUxPxRt6

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

@BBCRadio4 hi just listened to news report on couple who met at Park Run club when he offered to be her sight guide & they recently married.
I made a radio piece on Park Runners in Eastbourne celebrating their 11th birthday this year for @Agile_Rabbit https://t.co/I8Dbrzxm4n

[Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social) @citiesandmemory]

Happy #WDPD2023! Cities and Memory started off as a sound project, but today it's a digital archive of 6,000+ sounds from 118 countries, with sounds archived as part of the British Library's digital collection. Digital sound preservation is now at the heart of what we do!

[Cities and Memory (@citiesandmemory.bsky.social) @citiesandmemory]

Up for a creative challenge? Let us allocate you one of 100 field recordings from around the world at random, for you to use as source material for a new composition, soundscape or piece of music!

If that sounds interesting, get in touch! https://t.co/yBAMszFmjF

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

'wæsse' sound work on #SoundCloud #flooding #soundart #environment
https://t.co/CiHs3mGTHq

[mary hooper @Hooper1Ma]

Such a brilliant piece to publish thankyou

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."