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Figure 1. Cover of the authors’ copy of Savage Messiah compilation displaying Ford’s zine aesthetics of an embattled London and a sampling of interior pages building an acoustic world. Typewritten details of bands and memories are composed with collaged photos of punk band line-ups and squatters’ messages.
Figure 2. Ford’s “Alpha, Isis, Eden,” installed at The Showroom gallery in London recreating the zine page as an immersive environment with barrier fencing, jarring walls, and advertisement reproductions defaced by anarchically scrawled narratives while speakers play her new sound work.
Figure 3. Top row: participants in “LA//London: A Summertime Playlist” preparing for their dérive by making annotations and readying their equipment (photo credit: Andrés Carrasquilllo). Bottom row: a team of scavengers wandering Los Angeles recording sounds led by Ford’s “LOS ANGELES//LONDON” (photo credit: Amy Zhou).
Figure 4. Liner notes students created to accompany the scavenged sounds revealing their inspiration, rationale, and the locations where they were recorded.
Figure 5. Exhibition of “LA 1992/London 1780: Sounding Out a Crowd” juxtaposing two images of civil unrest from the cities studied. The fragmented images emphasize the reconstruction of perspective, while the tiled album cover art designed by students punctuates the listening stations situated between successive panels. Scavenged sounds could be selected as individual CDs and played on a boombox, while another stereo filled the room with “Never Say Die,” the final track of the collective album.
Figure 6. Collection of CDs produced from the archive giving form to students’ individual contributions while creating collective coherence when they close to form an image of the raven Grip.
Figure 7. Large map of the scavenged sounds that situated the archive while opening up a community of listeners as students shared their findings and collaboratively mapped with visitors their own recollections of 1992.
Figure 8. Community annotations feathering the map with Post-it notes relating remembered city sounds located by green dots upon the students’ scavenged archive (yellow) and data on damages in the civil unrest (blue).
