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Female voice: Yesterday I walked through the streets of our town, and I watched the people and the town culture.

(Mingled city sounds and voices)

I’m sitting down in the Central Bank yesterday…a man approached me and started talking to me …was a little bit crazy but it was funny.

Yesterday I walked through streets of our town…

….and I watched the people and the town culture.

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Laila Degia states, “When I started this piece I was uncertain how to represent Barbadian “town culture” with sound.  I went into town trying to absorb and record every sound I could and to understand the layers behind them - until then I had never really listened to these many layers of sounds when I walked through town. Upon re-listening and remembering this experience, the two things that echoed in my mind the most were the idea of Bridgetown as the heart of our country, where our culture resonates at its strongest, and the semantic noise that exists in the interpretation of these sounds. In composing this piece I wanted to show the layers of discrepancies between ordinary town sounds and how I have heard them as a pulse, a pulse that was there from slavery until now and needs to be heard and kept alive”.

Laila Degia attended the whisperpost workshop as a student artist. She has since gained her B.F.A. from the Barbados Community College (2006).