Reflections on the mundane and the miraculous.

As if in response to Walter Benjamin's belief that the everyday is saturated with the marvellous, All Day Everyday presents an array of artists addressing the quotidian - the beauty and banality ever-present in the everyday.

Documentaries, poetry, drama, features, musical compositions, essays, soundscapes, performance, interviews...

Water Cycles | Dallas Simpson

A binaural evocation of the cycling water in our environment. This involves water cycling through us all of course, and all living things, and indeed through any use of carbon as fuel, for it is sometimes forgotten that water is released along with carbon dioxide on combustion.
http://www.dallassimpson.com/

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Future Worlds: Tricorn Init | Julia Lee Barclay

Future Worlds: Tricorn Init! is a cut-up of official and unofficial words found inside the Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth, just days before the complex was demolished.
Although the Tricorn Centre was voted Britain's ugliest building -- Prince Charles apparently likened it to "a mildewed lump of elephant droppings" -- it was also one of the only Portsmouth venues for punk and alternative music in the 1980s and its passing was mourned by a small but vocal minority in the town.
http://www.flyingoutofsequence.org/

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De la dilatation du paysage | Eric La Casa

A sound project by Eric La Casa with Michaele-Andrea Schatt, originally part of an exhibition at IG Gallery in Boulogne.
All sounds recorded in Michaele-Andrea Schatt's house and garden during painting sessions. Mixed and produced Jan-Feb 2008.
Voices: Eric la Casa / Michaele-Andrea Schatt.
Text: From the notebooks of Michaele-Andrea Schatt - words listed before she embarks on a project.
http://ascendre.free.fr/

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A Walk Down Consulado | Martin Williams
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Consulado is one of the main residential thoroughfares in the district of Central Havana in Cuba. It's part of a grid of narrow streets whose songbirds, kerbside congregations and constant strains of music give the impression of everyday life being lived out of doors, on the street.
All recordings made on Consulado in December 2007.

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Watering | Maja Bugge

We use water all day. Every day. With the piece Watering I am interested in exploring the sounds of our 'everyday' interaction with water. To accompany these water sounds I have been using a crotales (a pitch-based percussion instrument).
http://www.disturbances.org/index.php?id=participants_detail&which=13

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All Day Everyday | Simon Duff

A surreal, slow dubstep-inspired backing track layered with sounds of prayer and suggested daily prayer.
Simon Duff is a writer and composer based in London.

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Worms Swallow Tiger | Robert Iolini

Blurring the boundary between fiction and documentary, Robert Iolini presents a poetic report on the everyday in Hong Kong.
Voices: Chan Tsz Ting, Oscar Ho, Steven Pang, Eno Yim
Music: Infested Killswitch & Damascus Blues by Snoblind; Bad Waves of Paranoia (part 1) by stealstealground
Actors' dialogue: Robert Iolini
http://www.iolini.com/
Visit Robert's website to discover more about the Hong Kong Agent cross-media multi-platform project: http://www.hongkongagent.iolini.com/ 

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All Day Monday and Tuesday | Richard Youngs

All day every Monday and Tuesday I hang out with my son, Sorley. He's 16 months old and, among many things, likes adventure, people, walking and cooking. This is a celebration.

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24/7/52 | Bill Aitchison

A radio snapshot of Bill Aitchison's recent performance - a show about time: how we experience it and how we tell it.
Performances of 24/7/52 are made with the assistance of James Dunn and Boris Kahnert.
http://www.billaitchison.co.uk

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From Signal to Noise | Justin Spooner and Sylvie Wright

Everyday things - heard, folded up and heaped on one another. Patterns from our noise, signals of every type of life.
http://www.evahipsey.com

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Igelboda, Sweden | Maike Zimmermann

A field recording made in Stockholm, Sweden in winter 2007/2008.
Imagine a rail track in a residential area. On its right side is a parking space (where I am recording) and small blocks of flats and on the left side is a motorway. There is a train signal at a pedestrian crossing leading over the rail tracks. There is something about it I really love, especially sitting by the half-open window in the evening with candlelight and hearing the train signal from a distance. It's a signal that interrupts time regularly everyday. It reminds me of certain nostalgic feelings. And this gives it a kind of beauty for me.

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Tock Tick | Wolf

Tick Tock is a piece of process music devised by Clive Painter, otherwise known as Wolf. The piece is constructed using a variety of tape-looped recordings and found sounds such as a telefunken clock, an old recording of Sputnik and a voiceover by Microsoft Sam. This work echos the constant rotation of ever-present forces that unfold every day on planet earth.
http://www.flow.fsworld.co.uk/

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(all)(day)(everyday) | Octavio Carmargo & Brandon LaBelle

With the cigarette, the small noises of manipulating something, hanging around the same place, kids, some talk, some music going on far away, and an excited monologue in a strange language... And the overlapping of here and there, of that night with this day, and the morning light, but still dark, like echoes or small myths, and the streets full of laughter.
http://www.errantbodies.org/

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Tartu Sound | Murmer

In February 2008, Maksims Shentelevs and Patrick McGinley led a workshop in the southeastern Estonian city of Tartu, entitled Sound as Space/Sound as Language, with a group of 15 Estonian and Finnish university students. The work focused on a development of deep listening skills and on the use of sound as a communication tool, or as a way to describe or create real or imaginary spaces. Only acoustic objects, brought in by the participants, and elements of the space itself (floorboards, walls, windows, chairs) were used during the two-day workshop. This piece, intertwined with reactions by a few of the participants, was composed by Patrick McGinley using recordings made of the workshop exercises.
http://www.murmerings.com/

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Boots Brown: All Day Everyday | David Grubbs

The Swedish improvising group Boots Brown takes its name from a pseudonym once used by the clarinetist and saxophone player Jimmy Giuffre. Guiffre came up with the name for a recording session in order to sidestep the demands of a recording contract. The current Boots Brown is premised on the perhaps impossible melding of free improvisation and the kind of US West Coast jazz for which Jimmy Giuffre was a key figure.

This short programme, Boots Brown: All Day Everyday, takes as its subject a set up and soundcheck prior to Boots Brown's concert on 25th April 2008 at the Bunker in Bielefeld, Germany. It is inspired by the series of documentaries that Luc Ferrari and Gérard Patris made for French television in the mid-1960s under the title Les Grandes Répétitions. These five documentaries about musicians in rehearsal baeutifull capture the sounds of the comparatively empty time that leads up to a performance. I've also admired Leonard Cohen's idea on Live Songs of recording the final song on a live album in his hotel room after the show. The live recording was made prior to the concert.

Boots Brown consists of Mats Gustafsson on saxophones and electronics; Magnus Broo, trumpet and, at least during this soundcheck, opera singing; David Stackenäs on guitar; and Johan Berthling on double bass.

On the day of this performance, Jimmy Giuffre died at his home in Massachusetts at the age of 86.
http://www.dragcity.com/bands/grubbs.html 

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An Everyday Encounter | Esther Leslie

This mini-radio lecture in high-flown scientific language backed by quotidian sound effects is an exploration of the everyday as lodged in the microworlds of domesticity and the macroworld of the cosmos, directed by SM Eisenstein and montaged of Marx's Capital and Joyce's Ulysses.
http://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/

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Doors: Through and Into: Brooklyn: Winter 2007-2008 | Rick Moody & Laura Vitale

Inspired by Sun Ra's Door Squeak piece from 1965, Door: Through and Into is a collage of the passage from one space to another.

Bathroom doors, garage doors, elevator doors, subway doors, doors on municipal buses, car doors, apartment doors, doors to various appliances...

In addition to the doors themselves they present the passage between spaces, from public spaces to private spaces and back again, always through the lovely musical thresholds that are a regular part of everyone's daily faire.

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The Person I'm Talking About | Martin Williams
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Blending fact and fiction, stories and song, The Person I'm Talking About combines an account of the inexorable, everyday progression of coastal erosion with three inter-connected narratives extrapolated from fleeting, glimpsed scenarios. While a toddler dances in the park, his grandmother preaches on a tube train and his father takes a break from work, with a resolution to change.

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A Cunlhat | Poyepolomi

This is an extract from a performance in Cunlhat, Auvergne, France on the 27th June 2008. The aim of Poyepolomi is to work in rural villages or specific inhabited areas, to spend a day or two recording the daily life, then to quickly edit the sounds in order to prepare a performance with the sounds of the place for the people living in the place. We like to play in inhabited houses, the host inviting friends and neighbours. This time, the performance was hosted by Fabiola Govare, a painter, during Yannick Dauby's residency with Wan-Shuen Tsai at CoLLombier Art Residency. Wan-Shuen and another guest, Caroline Bouissou, participated in the performance, with visual work and actions. The sounds used were recorded mainly inside the village and in abandoned houses.
Poyepolomi is Yannick Dauby and Christophe Havard.
http://www.kalerne.net/poyepolomi/

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Linden | Aaron Ximm
(Dedicated to Francisco Lopez)

hMy work as Quiet American is a vehicle through which I integrate experiences beyond my comfort zone. For All Day Everyday, I turn about and reconsider a soundscape and a discomfort of a different kind: that of the place I work, almost every day, at my Day Job. Here in this piece I bottle Work: a creaky old building in south San Francisco, not yet entirely comfortable and not yet entirely familiar (my company bought it only last year). From my window a still-wild hillside rises over a bus repair depot; I am both blessed and tormented to watch hawks ranging and fog flooding in, on the all-but unceasing wind from the sea. This is where I must duly labour -- before sometime again, for a few days, I can follow them.
http://www.quietamerican.org

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The View From Here | Melanie Wilson

A patient, blinded in an accident, wakes to another day of darkness. Resolved to sidestep the obdurate murk of her useless vision, she turns instead to the obliging stock of her memory, where the everyday patterns of human routine appear golden and precious.

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Everyday Indeterminacy | Catherine Dyson

In gentle pastiche of John Cage and David Tudor's Indeterminacy, Catherine Dyson reads a series of everyday yarns at a rate of one per minute, backed by a series of minute-long accompaniments contributed by thirteen different people, each component recorded with no knowledge of the other and randomly combined by a process of pulling numbers from a hat.

Recordings by Bill Aitchison, Dan Beban, Maja Bugge, Simon Duff, Chris Goode, a smith, Richard Thomas, Vincent Luttman, Connor Walsh, Martin Williams, Melanie Wilson, Maike Zimmermann 

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Guest Host Ghost | Joni Murphy

Guest Host Ghost was developed in collaboration/response to Dutch/Canadian artist Yvette Poorter's project This Neck of the Woods (http://thisneckofthewoods.net). Inspired by Poorter's long-term exploration of residencies, dwellings and creative, interpersonal relationships, Guest Host Ghost attempts to speak to the nebulous state that arises when stable host opens their home to fluctuating guest. Visits and couch-surfing facilitate interactions between friends that are once quotidian and unpredictable, exciting and nervewracking. Different times, memories and routines run softly into unfamiliar pillows and backpacks cluttering up corners. Nothing happens and yet things are very memorable. The guest, host, and ghost have nowhere to go but they must somehow go on.

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Guardian, Please! | Martin Williams

Repetitions from the daily routine. 

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All Day Everyday | Nina Katchadourian
 
My brother and I grew up in suburban California, the children of a University professor and a literary translator. I became a visual artist, and my brother became a professional windsurfer who competes at the highest level of his sport. He specializes in waveriding, and his life is spent chasing huge waves and strong wind around the globe. All day, every day, my brother thinks about the ocean, and this program became a way for us all to think about his obsession.
http://www.ninakatchadourian.com

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