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

the 1 minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales was recorded 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. The single places the contemporary public silence observed during the mourning of Diana's death in context with the second part of the project, Kenotaphion, produced as a result of researching, locating and anthologising all the existing archive recordings of the two minute silences from the Armistice Day or Remembrance Sunday ceremonies at the Cenotaph, Whitehall, London.

Co-produced by charrm and Locus+

jonty semper

the 1 minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales