Karen Strunks’ 4am Project had another outing over the weekend, this time teaming up with Project Brutal to explore Birmingham Central Library.
You can browse through all the photos that have been uploaded to Flickr.
Mr Underwood did things slightly differently, going in to do some sound recordings:
Firstly, a library is meant to be a place of silence, “Shhhhh, people are trying to read”, but what we perceive as silence is just our ability to block out some sounds and not others. I wanted to focus in on these sounds as well as discovering what other sounds I might find in parts of the building one wouldn’t normally gain access to. Secondly, with the proposed demolition of the existing library, I considered this to be an opportunity to record the dying breathes of the building