4. Four minutes past five

Speech transcription: Years ago I was given an alarm clock. When the battery stopped I never replaced them. I don’t know how long it has been a useless object; for at least 2 years I would guess.

The broken time is strong in my visual memory:
05:04, or 17:04,
four minutes
past five.

It’s been said that even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Time has been standing still on my windowsill for a long time now, apart from the two separate fleeting minutes that are spaced 12 hours apart every day.

Audio description: A low throbbing drone starts this clip - it has a digital/electric feel to the sound. Following this, a second drone subtly swells in. This drone consists of tiny particles or grains of sound from different orchestral instruments. Above this, a digitally-produced, bubbling, rotating sound grows; it fades in, panned to the left, then travels to the right where it fades out again. This pattern repeats throughout. A fourth drone joins the noise; a distorted synth that gently bounces, similar to the first throbbing noise, but not as low-pitched. All four drones quieten down as the voice begins to speak. The drones mix, but sit quietly underneath the voice. The sound of a gentle breeze appears, but also remains low. Whilst the voice is speaking, a bright hum can be heard as the circular sound builds and drops, panning from left to right. The sound of a ticking clock fades in very slowly. It sits quietly in the background of the mix. As the voice stops, the now-quiet drones end, leaving only the rotating/circular sound with the bright hum until they both subtly fade at the end of the clip.