We have created two soundtrails that can be downloaded onto an MP3 player to use during your next visit to Kettle's Yard. Each soundtrail includes observations by children and adults - some extracts you will recognise from other parts of this website, other have only been used here. Please print a copy of the soundtrail tour to help you navigate around the house, or ask to borrow a copy when you arrive.
Soundtrail One [mp3 Download 13.68mb .zip]
Tour.pdf [Download 541kb .pdf]
Play all tracks [16mins]
You may skip to any track by clicking on the left and right arrows
01
Introduction – how to use this soundtrail
Cottages – dining room
02
Daisy, aged 7, and Amie, aged 8, visited in 2009
Cottages – dining room
The lemon on the pewter plate
03
Duncan Robinson, retired Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, first visited 1963
Cottages – Jim’s bedroom
Jim's bedroom
04
Ryan, aged 9, visited in 2009.
Cottages – Jim's bedroom
Vexilla Regis, 1948, by David Jones
05
Beti Evans, house invigilator since 1989
Cottages – Bechstein room
Dogfish skull on the bookcase
06
Track 6 Kieran, aged 8, visited in 2009
Cottages - attic
Windmill, 1913, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
07
Kimberley, aged 9, visited in 2009
Cottage – attic
Cat, 1914, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
08
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, recorded in 1973
Cottages - Dancer Room
Mermaid, 1912-13 and Head, 1912, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
09
Track 9 Michael Harrison, Director of Kettle’s Yard since 1992
Cottages – opposite Dancer room
Portrait of Gwen Raverat, 1954, by Elisabeth Vellacott
10
Sebastiano Barassi, Curator of Collections since 2001
Transition from the cottages to the extension
Cottages looking to the extension
11
Angel, aged 8, visited in 2009
Extension - upstairs
Road Along the Roman Wall, 1926, by Winifred Nicholson
12
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle's Yard, recorded in 1973
Extension – upstairs
Still Life with Knife, Jug and Lemon, 1927, by Ben Nicholson
13
Ellie, aged 8, visited in 2009
Extension – library
Glass paperweight on semi-circular table
14
Duncan Robinson, retired Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, first visited 1963
Extension - downstairs upper level
Building the Boat, Tréboul, 1930, by Christopher Wood
15
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, recorded in 1973
Extension – downstairs upper level
Bird Swallowing a Fish, 1914, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
16
Texas and Ellie, aged 9, visited in 2009
Extension - downstairs lower level
Large Buddha sitting on a coiled snake
17
Paolo, aged 8, visited in 2009
Extension - downstairs lower level
Fiddle fish, 1963, by John Clegg
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Jim Ede, creator of Kettle's Yard, recorded in 1973
Extension - downstairs lower level
Fiddle fish, 1963, by John Clegg
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Beti Evans, house invigilator since 1989
Extension - downstairs lower level
Indian Temples No2 (Sri Rangam, Tiruchirapalli), 1954, by William Congdon
Soundtrail Two [Download 17.44mb .zip]
Tour.pdf [Download 623kb .pdf]
Play all tracks [20mins]
You may skip to any track by clicking on the left and right arrows
01
Introduction – how to use this soundtrail
Cottages - dining room
02
Beti Evans, house invigilator since 1989
Cottages - dining room
Cider press
03
Tom Poster, musician, attended art classes aged 9 in 1991
Cottages – dining room
Cider press
04
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, recorded in 1973
Cottages - Jim's bedroom
Spiral of pebbles on the round table
05
Brooke, aged 8, visited in 2009
Cottages - Jim's bedroom
The round table in Jim’s bedroom
06
Nicole, aged 10, visited in 2009
Cottages - Jim's bathroom
Guatemala No7 (Dying Vulture), 1957, by William Congdon
07
Roger Malbert, assistant curator 1974-79 and Michael Tooby, assistant curator 1979-1983
Cottages – Bechstein Room
Flora in Calix Light, 1950, by David Jones and Prometheus, 1912, by Constantin Brancusi
08
Tyler, aged 8, visited in 2009
Cottages – attic
Self-Portraits with a Pipe, three drawings, 1913, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
09
Macy, aged 9, visited in 2009
Cottages – attic
Frog, c1912, by Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
10
Michael Harrison, Director of Kettle’s Yard since 1992
Cottages – bridge
The magnifying lens in the window
11
Sebastiano Barassi, Curator of Collections since 2001
Cottages – Dancer Room
No labels next to the artworks
12
Paolo, aged 8, visited in 2009
Extension – upstairs
Plants in the window
13
Kelly, aged 10, visited in 2009
Extension – upstairs
Black City I, 1949, by William Congdon
14
Michael Tooby, assistant curator 1979-1983 and Roger Malbert, assistant curator 1974-79
Extension – upstairs
King’s College Chapel and The Round Church, 1966, by Bryan Pearce
15
Emma, aged 4, visited in 2009
Extension – upstairs
King’s College Chapel, 1966, by Bryan Pearce
16
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle’s Yard, recorded in 1973
Extension – upstairs
Radar II, 1969, by Ovidiu Maitec
17
Edmund de Waal, potter, first visited c1981, exhibited in 2007
Extension – library
Sitting and reading in the house
18
Lochlainn, aged 8, visited in 2009
Extension – downstairs upper level
St Edmund, found object, by John Catto
19
David Owers, architect with Sir Leslie Martin for the house extension of 1970
Extension – downstairs lower level
Managing the fall of light
20
Jim Ede, creator of Kettle's Yard, recorded in 1973
Extension – downstairs lower level
Goblet and Two Pears, 1924, by Ben Nicholson
21
Iman, aged 9, visited in 2009
Extension – downstairs lower level
Cypriot jug, c.7th century BC
