{"id":1946,"date":"2026-09-15T23:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/?page_id=1946"},"modified":"2026-09-25T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T12:19:34","slug":"sound-art","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/sound-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Sound Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"arkb-section--3 alignfull ark-block-section\" data-height=\"content\"><div class=\"ark-block-section__color arkb-absLayer\" style=\"background-color:var(--ark-color--bg);opacity:1.00\"><\/div><div class=\"ark-block-section__body\" data-content=\"center-left\"><div class=\"ark-block-section__bodyInner ark-keep-mt\">\n<div class=\"ark-block-heading\" data-sub=\"bottom\"><h2 class=\"ark-block-heading__main\">Sound art<\/h2><div class=\"ark-block-heading__sub\"><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-snow-monkey-blocks-box smb-box\" style=\"--smb-box--background-opacity:1;--smb-box--border-style:none;--smb-box--border-width:0px\"><div class=\"smb-box__background\"><\/div><div class=\"smb-box__body is-layout-constrained wp-block-snow-monkey-blocks-box-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"arkb-container--1 ark-block-container ark-keep-mt\">\n<div class=\"ark-block-columns\" data-valign=\"center\"><div class=\"ark-block-columns__inner\">\n<div class=\"ark-block-column ark-keep-mt--s\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large u-mt-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"731\" src=\"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FindingSmallHappiness-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2325\" style=\"aspect-ratio:4\/3;object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FindingSmallHappiness-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FindingSmallHappiness-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FindingSmallHappiness-767x548.jpg 767w, https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/FindingSmallHappiness.jpg 1448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"ark-block-column ark-keep-mt--s\">\n<div class=\"ark-block-heading has-text-align-left\" data-sub=\"bottom\"><h2 class=\"ark-block-heading__main\">Finding Small Happiness<\/h2><div class=\"ark-block-heading__sub\"><em>Sound art<br>Photograph and sound by Althea Knight<\/em><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/renew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Finding-Small-Happiness-2023-2025-edit.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">Created during The Ancestry Project, Small Happiness is an intimate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soundscape made from the materials and spontaneous moments of my daily life.Segments recorded on my iPhone in Beaurepaire Village, Ottawa, and en route to Toronto over the course of a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">for<br>self<br>those from before<br>now<br>and to come<br><br>Voice is ancient technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">How are you using yours?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\">What will you choose to bring forth?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-right:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-left:0\"><br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-snow-monkey-blocks-box smb-box\" 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organized by Culture Link and held at Todmorden Mills Heritage Site and Scarborough Museum.<br><br>The cover art is a layered visual work combining my photography and painting, digitally superimposed to create an atmospheric sequence for this sound piece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Swamp Soothe was an answered call from the ancestors, the land, and the water. It came to me while on a guided tour of the site. Overcome by grief at the exclusion and erasure of Black and Indigenous bodies from the historical official record, I left the tour to walk along Oxbow Trail. I stopped by the swamp to release my tears, and in response to the anguish, this vocable came through, bringing comfort to my soul.<br><br>With love and gratitude for the ancients,<br>Althea<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1946","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1946\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altheaknight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}