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Podcast: Cities and Memory
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Migration of whales over the Vale of Health Pond
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:04:53
Publish Date: 2022-11-11 15:02:10
Description:
"The Vale of Health pond apparently is a drained marsh area called Hatches bottom (of questionable repute) circa 1770. So I cleaned up the recording and thought about how the people hoped a name change would bring people to recreate and live. 

In the 1800s it became a hotspot for writers and such so I introduced some tone but not enough to cover the whole pond. In 1973 a committee was set up to restrict inappropriate development, so I introduced the idea of whales floating across the sky while people listening to the sounds are on the bank, fishing."

Vale of Health pond reimagined by Joel Graham. 
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