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Rebecca W Morris

The History of the Feminised Voice

Noise Vs Silence Part II: looking at the feminised voice in Irish & Ancient Greek mythology, lamenting rituals, hermit nuns & PJ Harvey

Dec 5, 2023

The History of the Feminised Voice

Dec 5, 2023

Rebecca W Morris

Musicians Resurrecting Silent Cinema in Andalusia: Cinetones

A video interview with the creators of Cinetones, Elena Jiménez and Manuel Méijome, joined by collaborator, drummer Ismael Colón Garrido.

Nov 1, 2022

Musicians Resurrecting Silent Cinema in Andalusia: Cinetones

Nov 1, 2022

Lydia Beardmore

Hi-Vis Jackets and Comedown Carbonara: Working Glastonbury 2022

Those Who Were Dancing columnist Lydia Beardmore gives us a review of working at Glastonbury, inspired by field-notes from working at…

Jul 3, 2022

Hi-Vis Jackets and Comedown Carbonara: Working Glastonbury 2022

Jul 3, 2022

Rebecca W Morris

Noise Versus Silence: Part one

Rebecca W Morris writes about noise pollution and noise-resistance campaigns through history

Jun 6, 2022

Large spiky 3-D metal points lined up next to each other and facing towards the viewer. It appears to be abstract shapes but is an image of the walls of an anechoic chamber.

Jun 6, 2022

Lydia Beardmore

Sounds of Spring

Those Who Were Dancing columnist Lydia Beardmore takes us on a global-wide journey through the sounds and rites of springtime

May 3, 2022

A Kurdish woman raises her hand in the air to make the peace sign. She is wearing a braided headband in the national colours. In the background are a crowd of Kurdish people waving flags and letting off smoke signals.

May 3, 2022

Rebecca W Morris

Delirious Dancing: the Diabolical Discipline of Flamenco Bulerías

What are Bulerías?

Mar 25, 2022

Delirious Dancing: the Diabolical Discipline of Flamenco Bulerías

Mar 25, 2022

Lydia Beardmore

Learning to love record stores — from the 90s till now

I was always looking for the kind of record store that existed in Empire Records, I found the High Fidelity-style (pre Zoe Kravitz reboot)…

Mar 12, 2022

A record shop. A dark-skinned woman with black straight hair tied up, wearing a shocking pink adidas sweater and a red skirt, browses through some records

Mar 12, 2022

Rebecca W Morris

Reviving Music Traditions through Electronic Sound

From Bagpipes and Flamenco to Rave and Raggaeton

Feb 25, 2022

Reviving Music Traditions through Electronic Sound

Feb 25, 2022

Lydia Beardmore

How Techno became the beating heart of Berlin

The journey from the factories of Detroit to the streets of Berlin in the late 80s and 90s.

Feb 11, 2022

A 35mm photograph taken in the early 90s of a large crowd of people filling the streets of Berlin. They are colourfully dressed with floats and balloons.

Feb 11, 2022

Rebecca W Morris

Does The City Have A Sound?

On the morning of the 22nd of December 2020, I went for a walk in the centre of Jerez de la Frontera.

Jan 28, 2022

A blurry image of a nighttime scene in Jerez. Trees smeared across the left-hand side and streetlights streaked across the right.

Jan 28, 2022

Those Who Were Dancing is about music and its roots. We look at public performance of musicality, collective singing and genres enmeshed with today’s sound. We investigate self-expression and the ancestral voice remaining in today’s saturated music industry.
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Rebecca W Morris
Art, activism, sound and the body. Editor and Contributor to Medium publication, Those Who Were Dancing.
Lydia Beardmore
Writer, visual artist and anthropologist.

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