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Ring Ring Bell

by Helen Ottaway

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    Ring Ring Bell is composed of sounds and words collected from around the M11 in London between Aldgate and Bow in March 2021, an evocation of life along the Hight Street heard through its bells.

    Ring Ring Bell was part of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets' High Street 2012, an ambitious programme to henance and celebrate the ribbon of London life that connects the City at Aldgate to the Olympic park at Stratford.

    The two ringtones: Little Bells and Big Bells are free to download. For downloading direct to your phone the ringtones are also available free from www.zedge.net (search for Artmusic Big Bells and Artmusic Little Bells)
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Ringtone 1: Little bells 00:23
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Ringtone 2: Big bells 00:34
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3.
Ring Ring Bell Soundscape 09:26
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released May 9, 2012

Recording and composition - Helen Ottaway
Editing and production - Alastair Goolden
Ring Ring Bell is an Artmusic project

Thanks to all those who helped and participated, including by contributing bell sounds and stories: Franko B; Manuel Barroso; Linsey Bell; Canon Barnett Primary School staff and children; Central School of Speech and Drama (Jessica Bowles); Christ Church, Spitalfields (steeple master Alan Regin); Christian Taylor and Mayor Pharmacy, Bow Road; Jessica Denning; East End Life (editor Laraine Clay); Bill Gee; John Scurr Primary School staff and pupils (Head Bridget Fagan, music coordinator Bethan Gill); Keith Leech; Joanne Matthews; Graeme Miller; Phil Mills; Kira O’Reilly; Repton Boxing Club (chairman David Robinson); Jennifer Richardson; Rusty; C. Selby & Son, Funeral Directors; St. Boniface German Church (Father Christian Dieckmann, Anthony Perera, David, Lukas and Franziska); St. Botolph without Aldgate clergy and ringers (tower captain Tim Mills); St. Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney Green ringers (tower captain Elizabeth LeMoine); St. Mary and Holy Trinity, Bow Road ringers (tower captain Jinny Kufluk); Lucy Thane; The Bow Bells Public House; The English Martyrs Roman Catholic Church (Father Oliver Barry); Tower Hamlets (Ben Pearce and Anne-Juli Browne); Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (Kenneth Greenway); Tower Hamlets Community Housing (Michael Tyrrell and Andy Coleborn); Tower Hamlets Film Office (Dominic Reeve-Tucker); We Made That; Stuart Whatmore (THAME); Whitechapel Bell Foundry (Alan & Kathryn Hughes, Mark and Ben).

For Artmusic: Steve Ehrlicher (admin & press); Nathania Wong (trainee creative producer); Bronwen Bradshaw (video); Frances Ottaway (photography); Rachel Shipp (production manager).

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Helen Ottaway Frome, UK

Helen Ottaway is a composer and installation artist specialising in collaborative, site-specific and participatory work. Artmusic creates sound installations for a wide variety of spaces indoor and out sometimes involving the stretching of sound and music across urban and rural sites.

Helen's music is inspired by places, buildings and landscapes and frequently has a connection with water. ... more

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