Here is how the bookshelf looks. I like the fact it is 2 way and you can hear it as well as access it ‘front and back’ so to speak.
There will be 6 books with mobile phones fitted. 2 will play through over 80 minutes, 2 will loop, and 2 will be available to be called and ‘interupt/add’ to the composition.
There is quite a drastic spacialisation of the sound which is great.
But there are still some unanswered questions; do i want people tobrowse the books? Search for the phones? Set up a reading chair (and if i do that, i should set it up with headphones too)?
I could even add a live podcast feed into one of the books, from my computer, by putting a small speaker inside. Or even headphones.
I have put up a sign looking for books to loan for the exhbition time, and fill the space in the shelf. It needs some oranaments too. Its made the residency space strangely homely.
So far the phones are included in a Womens Encyclopedia, a German - English dictionary, a trashy english language novel and a  book of Hymns. I found an arabic book and if i can find someone to read the contents i will put a phone in there too.
Thanks katie hepworth for building the shelf.