Making Coffee, part 1

Making Coffee, part 1

G.D.

2022-01-23

When the pandemic forced so many places to close in March and April of 2020 and many of us were sent to work from home, I found myself listening more carefully to what was going on around me. Without the clatter and din of the workplace, I tuned in to simple, everyday sounds -- birds outside, humming fridge inside.

I've also always been interested in historic sounds. What did life sound like 100 years ago, 300 years ago? Fifty or a hundred years from now, will anyone be curious about what noises ordinary household tasks produced in 2022? In case they are, I have recorded the sounds of making coffee: filling a kettle from the faucet and setting it to boil on an electric range, fitting a filter into a coffee cone, spooning some sugar into a ceramic mug, etc. Hardly riveting, perhaps, but I enjoyed how the process made me really listen to the gestures and acts I perform everyday.

Household sounds

Coffee making paraphernalia

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