2015

”The auditory coverage of bells defines territories, separating one community from another along cultural, religious, or ideological fault lines. Bells also connect individuals. When great care is taken in the tuning of bells, the purity of tone and fullness of volume become sources of collective pride. The abduction of bells on the other hand – often involving violent conflicts – aroused fierce animosities, and individual’s sense of belonging is greatly disturbed by such events. - Alain Corbin, 1998.

In this project I travelled around the world to collect the sound of significant bells that are associated notions of conflict - political, religious, military, cultural. I also documented the conversation I had with the people who helped me locate and access these bells.”

Mandalay, Myanmar
London, Part I
London, Part II
Nuremberg, Germany & Bydgoszcz, Poland (on the trail of a Nazi-confiscated bell)
Rouen Cathedral, France
Cantal, France (into the world of Alain Corbin)
Licata, Sicily ("A Bell for Adano")
St. Petersburg (the Great Peacock Clock)
Fez, Morocco
Mombasa, Kenya
Darlington Point, NSW Australia
LA & Clemson University, USA
Vienna & Innsbruck, Austria

Photo credit: Rekorder