{"id":645731,"date":"2026-10-30T09:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645731\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T09:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T09:40:11","slug":"hourly-chime-artwork-aims-to-celebrate-sunderland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/645731\/","title":{"rendered":"Hourly chime artwork aims to celebrate Sunderland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An artwork which changes every hour will be aiming to celebrate a city&#8217;s identity and bring back memories of its past, the creators have said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Timepiece will see different 50-second long collages made from archive film, photos and audio chime on the hour through Sunderland&#8217;s newly opened Culture House from 16 November. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artist Jeremy Bradfield said he hoped the pieces, which would be accompanied by  an original soundtrack from The Futureheads&#8217; Ross Millard , would &#8220;stir&#8221; a lot of memories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 72 chimes were created and Millard said each celebrated a different element of Sunderland&#8217;s past, present and future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They&#8217;re like these little moments that last for 50 seconds,&#8221; Millard said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We had so much material to work with that we feel like we&#8217;ve got a good spread of Sunderland&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to think that people would see one or two in the building and try and time their visits so they can see more.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An artwork which changes every hour will be aiming to celebrate a city&#8217;s identity and bring back memories&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-645731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}