CourseProjectsPeopleConnectionsSuccesses
Positions: Sound Archivist, British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (Bristol, 1999-2003);
Project Manager, Commonwealth FM, a multi-cultural community radio station for the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum (Bristol, 2002); Freelance features writer for the BBC (1994–8)
My expertise
Conceptual planning in exhibitions
Soundscapes and oral histories in cultural and commercial exhibitions
Community projects, including Commonwealth FM (the first community radio station in a museum)
Radio features
Soundtracks for theatre productions
My focus
Museums, visitor attractions and events
Creative cities
My placement
Tim Gardom Associates
Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret
My CV (pdf)
The train now standing at platform 1
will call at Calcutta, Mombassa, New Delhi, Lagos and Bristol Temple Meads….
What was it like to travel through India during Partition, what were the expectations of a young Jamaican arriving in England in the freezing winter of 1947?
This project is an interactive sound installation on Bristol Temple Meads Station using personal testimonies from the sound archive at The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, original written and recorded narratives, and ambient sound to tell the stories of ordinary people whose lives were part of the history of The British Empire.
Voices and echoes lead the visitor from The Museum through the station to platforms, benches, waiting rooms and cafes. These pieces of sound and voice combine to present a generic story of meetings, partings, culture shock, expectation, disappointment, sadness and joy.
(8) Mary Ingoldby
Sound, narrative and personal testimony for cultural
and commercial environments.
Collaborators
Video/ photography: Simona Piantieri
Graphics: Jona Piehl
Flash animation: Arlete Castelo
Actor / voices: Joe Hall
Archive images: Jo Hopkins, BECM
Contact
mingoldby@blueyonder.co.uk
07919 426 503
