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This is the second part of a 2-part project by British artist Jonty Semper, featuring newsreel and broadcast archive recordings of the 2 minute silences from Remembrance Sunday services dating back to 1926.

Kenotaphion was produced as a result of researching and anthologising the existing archive recordings of the 2 minute silences from the Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph, London.

There is, in fact, very little silence in the recordings as they are location recordings from the Cenotaph and include the chiming of Big Ben striking eleven o’clock as well as the ambient sound from the immediate vicinity. Some of the earlier newsreel recordings also contain voice over commentary.

The first part of the project, the 1 minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, a 7-inch single, features a recording made in Hyde Park by Jonty Semper on 6 September 1997 as the live BBC television broadcast of the ceremony was shown on a big screen in the park.

Co-produced by charrm and Locus+

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