quiet

A little sequence with the recordings made in the Central Library reading room and the John Rylands library reading room set with quotes about silence.

watch on You tube here

Here are the quotes I collected for the clip.
Some interesting food for thought.

 

Manchester Libraries, recording quiet places

So one of the initial ideas I had for this project was to map quiet places, create a map of quiet places to go around the city or find ways to create and find quiet space in a noisy city. Manchester is not a city with a great deal of parks large enough for quiet reflection, any significant green space in the city centre or anywhere really that can be said to be "quiet", and I don't mean silent, of course just, you know, not on the street sound levels.
So, of course I thought to start the quiet map in the incredible collection of libraries we have here.


January 28th
-Manchester Central Library   53.4781° N, 2.2447° W
-John Rylands Library        -2.2484600W, 53.4802800N
-Portico Library                 53.479721N,-2.240696W

Reading room, Central Library

Outside in the music library area

One of the old original pin boards they kept when the library was renovated

Rylands library

reading room, Rylands library

Portico library, lunch time