{"id":1285,"date":"2020-12-03T20:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.63.227\/dj\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2021-02-13T14:25:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T14:25:50","slug":"we-have-sound-20-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/2020\/12\/03\/we-have-sound-20-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Threads 3.12.20 \u2013 We Have Sound 20.12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;light=1&amp;feed=%2FThreadsRadio%2Fwe-have-sound-w-francis-redman-3-dec-20%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Food for thought.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I visited Detroit a little over eight years ago. It was an inspiring place at an important time in its history. Shortly before the city filed for bankruptcy in 2013 following the <a href=\"https:\/\/documentaryheaven.com\/requiem-for-detroit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">steady decline in population due to collapse of industry<\/a> in a city that was built for the motor industry. It is important to be careful about fetishising the crumbling of Detroit, for many residents for whom Detroit was a place to call home the fact that the city was in flux a source of best friction and at worst desolation.<\/p>\n<p>But Detroit seems to have an enduring ability to overcome adversity and to build from the ground up; for some, the collapse of the economy had brought about the opportunity for a new way of life. Freed from the burden of the usual expense of city living \u2013 and with an abundance of unused spaces around them they had begun to grow things there.<\/p>\n<p>At this time the transformation of the landscape was captivating but my interest was largely aesthetic. Retrospectively, having spent more time growing food to eat myself, and having read about farms, and farming I see it differently \u2013 this is less about a hopeful but dystopian juxtaposition and more about retuning our relationship with the most fundamental parts of our living.<\/p>\n<p>Detroit perhaps more than anywhere embodies the hapless use of resources of the last century and of our arrogance in trying to shape the environment around our wants. But what emerged amongst the all the concrete and grand buildings, the factories and the once neat suburbs of the ailing city show how we could grow food close to home. It also shows that given the space it is something that people are drawn to do; and are nourished by.<\/p>\n<p>Large scale farming \u2013 regimented fields of single crops or livestock, long transport chains are as big a testament to our carelessness as the metropolis&#8217; they supply. Like the industry that funded the motor city, economics is the driving force for change as well as malfunction. Agricultural methods are usually brought about to meet market forces demanding for more produce at lower cost. As the fate of many who owned or worked the land in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/worst-us-environmental-disasters-1203696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drought stricken southern planes of the 1930&#8217;s<\/a> shows, farmers are usually the first in line to loose out when things go wrong. As dystopian as our current days can feel at times, a total collapse of this version of society seems unlikely anytime soon. As long as we are all here we all need to eat \u2013 farming and agriculture is at the sharp edge of our irregular relationship with nature, and farmers are too often at the sharp edge of our poorly distributed economies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Music.<\/h3>\n<p>Raime \u2013 Passed Over Trail<\/p>\n<p>Call Super \u2013 Milkweed<\/p>\n<p>Camp Of Wolves \u2013 Collapsed Adit<\/p>\n<p>Triad God \u2013 Chow Bat Por<\/p>\n<p>Heathered Pearls feat. Danny Scales \u2013 Muscle\/Maintain\/Feen<\/p>\n<p>Nosaj Thing \u2013 No Mind<\/p>\n<p>Arthur Russell \u2013 I Take This Time (Live 6\/24\/84)<\/p>\n<p>Cktrl \u2013 Will The Feelings Leave<\/p>\n<p>The Cinematic Orchestra \u2013 Lessons (Dorian Concept Remix)<\/p>\n<p>Dr&#8230;um \u2013 Gloomy Monday<\/p>\n<p>Pursuit Grooves \u2013 Footprints Galore<\/p>\n<p>Cornell Campbell \u2013 Bandulu-Hard Time featuring Ra&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The Revolutionaries \u2013 Kunta Kinte Version 1<\/p>\n<p>Mark Pritchard \u2013 Be Like Water<\/p>\n<p>Kamran \u2013 Kamran<\/p>\n<p>Boardgame James \u2013 Specialised Movers<\/p>\n<p>Elf Kid \u2013 Golden Boy (Hilts Remix)<\/p>\n<p>Ikonika \u2013 Please<\/p>\n<p>Zha \u2013 Shattered<\/p>\n<p>ETCH \u2013 Distrust<\/p>\n<p>Coco Bryce \u2013 Deep Into The Jungle<\/p>\n<p>Sound Source Direct \u2013 A Made Up Sound<\/p>\n<p>Wardown \u2013 Thanks for Comming<\/p>\n<p>Claude Speed \u2013 Backwards Track 3<\/p>\n<p>Craven Faults \u2013 Hard Level Force<\/p>\n<p>Griffit Vigo \u2013 Ancestral Vibe<\/p>\n<p>Scratcha DVA \u2013 Storm_Original_Mix<\/p>\n<p>John Beltran \u2013 Moth<\/p>\n<p>Andy Stott \u2013 Faith in Strangers<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Samples and further watching.<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ntJouJhLM48\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Living Soil: A Documentary<\/a> \u2013 a documentary from the Soil institute looking at how large scale farming can adapt new methods to protect and enrich the most vital component.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5yvQVD7sgn0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">James Lovelock explaining Gaia theory<\/a> \u2013\u00a0 how our planet could be considered an organism full of complex symbiotic relationships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KCznhxXNrOs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This Land Is Our Land: The Farm Crisis In America<\/a> \u2013 1986 documentary about the state of farming and the market forces affecting farming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uqu02eXMnuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dairy Farming in the UK in the 1960&#8217;s<\/a> \u2013 a short documentary from the 1960s about dairy farming.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=I_7rzoFzV08\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motown to Growtown: Detroit&#8217;s Urban Farming Revolution<\/a> \u2013 exploring Detroits urban farms and farmers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Header image: Arthur Rothstein<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeff Food for thought. I visited Detroit a little over eight years ago. It was an inspiring place at an important time in its history. Shortly before the city filed for bankruptcy in 2013 following the steady decline in population due to collapse of industry in a city that was built for the motor industry.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1296,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[71,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}