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Media

Seen and heard

Film, photography and writing produced by the archive, alongside coverage of the project elsewhere.

A microphone in warm light, from the archive's short film series
Film — Rooms that carry sound, 14 min. A portrait of three reciters and the spaces they record in.

Editorial

Essay · May 2026

The voice in the courtyard

On the acoustics of shared domestic space, and how women's recitation shaped the sound of the home long before the microphone.

Research · March 2026

Cassette networks and the travelling voice

Duplicated, posted and passed hand to hand — how magnetic tape carried women reciters across borders in the 1970s and 80s.

Field note · January 2026

Listening as method

Notes from three months of recording in Ibadan: consent, care, and what it means to archive a living practice.

Press

  • The voices being written back inResonance FM · 2026
  • A quiet revolution on cassetteFrieze · 2025
  • Archiving a living practiceSound Studies Journal · 2025

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