Boulangerie Des Fosses Noires

Live transmission from weekly bakery, baking bread in a wood fired oven for inhabitants of the zad



[06/10/2025, 11:23:20] Grant: transmitting from the bakery.**
[06/10/2025, 11:24:32] Sasha: I'm listening
[06/10/2025, 11:24:35] Grant: the fire, the different doughs have their times
[06/10/2025, 11:24:41] Sasha: Nice dough slapping
[06/10/2025, 11:25:03] Grant: ah were you listening before?
[06/10/2025, 11:25:14] Grant: when they were kneading?
[06/10/2025, 11:25:26] Sasha: No I just tuned in
[06/10/2025, 11:25:43] Grant: aha so no dough slapping i think –
[06/10/2025, 11:26:00] Sasha: Oh it sounds like dough slapping.. maybe something else
[06/10/2025, 11:26:06] Grant: perhaps v quietly in the next room
[06/10/2025, 11:26:50] Grant: here there is the fire in the oven
[06/10/2025, 11:27:01] Grant: wood going in now
[06/10/2025, 11:27:19] Grant: you can also hear the wall clock
[06/10/2025, 11:27:25] Grant: sometimes
[06/10/2025, 11:28:15] Sasha: I can hear the fire
[06/10/2025, 11:28:20] Grant: i m not sure – i think the dough is all proving
[06/10/2025, 11:28:22] Grant: yes
[06/10/2025, 11:28:45] Grant: and they are waiting for the oven to be right
[06/10/2025, 11:28:51] Sasha: V nice – are there lots of people around?
[06/10/2025, 11:29:07] Grant: they have appeared
[06/10/2025, 11:29:27] Grant: it s a beautiful bakery
[06/10/2025, 11:29:48] Sasha: Well it would have to be from Christin Ross's description of the kinds of warm rolls they produce..
[06/10/2025, 11:29:58] Sasha: Well done for getting yourself there
[06/10/2025, 11:29:59] Grant: the baker is working with an apprentice
[06/10/2025, 11:30:13] Grant: ahh yes
[06/10/2025, 11:30:40] Sasha: I am thinking I don't need to record anything because you are on stream demo so are using stream recorder?
[06/10/2025, 11:31:13] Grant: i am
i hope it s working
[06/10/2025, 11:31:32] Grant: the pi is at cambria rd
[06/10/2025, 11:31:41] Sasha: I'll do a little vlc recording now just Incase
[06/10/2025, 11:31:50] Grant: that d be great thx
[06/10/2025, 11:34:12] Grant: a lot of cleaning is built in – scraping off dough – not wasting anything – cleaning tools – seiving clumps of flour for re use
[06/10/2025, 11:34:27] Grant: the flour is both for eating and for cleaning
[06/10/2025, 11:34:47] Grant: during these prriods the dough and the fire are changing
[06/10/2025, 11:35:11] Grant: there are lists, recipes and noted on the wall
[06/10/2025, 11:35:32] Grant: but i think the baker is mainly holding these timeframes in mind
[06/10/2025, 11:36:55] Sasha: I am making notes..
[06/10/2025, 11:37:06] Sasha: lost the stream there
[06/10/2025, 11:37:46] Sasha: stream down atm
[06/10/2025, 11:45:25] Grant: these overlapping phases
[06/10/2025, 11:45:25] Grant: ah is it gone?
[06/10/2025, 11:45:28] Grant: i moved i think it went down
[06/10/2025, 11:45:42] Grant: back now outside
[06/10/2025, 11:45:45] Sasha: its back now
[06/10/2025, 11:45:54] Grant: lost the signal in the bakery
[06/10/2025, 11:46:03] Sasha: I think my recording might not have worked because of the drop but will try again now
[06/10/2025, 11:46:32] Grant: they re going to shape the loaves pretty soon
[06/10/2025, 11:46:56] Grant: will see if it will work
[06/10/2025, 11:47:10] Sasha: Have just found out you can copy and paste directly from whatsapp into a text doc and it includes all the time stamps and stuff quite similar to the IRC chat
[06/10/2025, 11:47:19] Grant: lots of birds
[06/10/2025, 11:47:22] Grant: aha
[06/10/2025, 11:47:38] Sasha: V nice
[06/10/2025, 11:48:01] Sasha: I am, of course, trying to write this thesis proposal at the same time haha
[06/10/2025, 11:48:05] Sasha: temporal disjuncture to the max
[06/10/2025, 11:48:11] Grant: it s [p]ossible the bakers have put in the real radio –
[06/10/2025, 11:48:17] Grant: good
[06/10/2025, 11:48:38] Grant: i ll try inside
[06/10/2025, 13:40:15] Grant: had to abandon the bakery transmission
[06/10/2025, 13:40:46] Grant: now streaming: clearing a barrel filter of grease to unblock kitchen plumbing
[06/10/2025, 13:41:04] Grant: (last worked on 3 years ago)
[06/10/2025, 13:41:16] Grant: but somebody put on music sadly
[06/10/2025, 13:42:33] Sasha: Ah good work – it always takes a while to get up to speed – maybe you could try the bakery stream again tomorrow?
[06/10/2025, 13:44:25] Sasha: I am writing about time while thinking 'ahhh I don't have time for this!' – as was always going to be the case in this project.. almost as if I created an impossible temporal bind for myself and then proceeded to willingly tie myself up in it.. re re re searching
[06/10/2025, 13:44:39] Sasha: music is part of life I guess – it will come and go I expect


[06/10/2025, 14:43:55] Grant: here was a long stream before you arrived
it s on e wk so that s it om that one
[06/10/2025, 14:51:50] Sasha: Ahh nice – sorry I missed the earlier stream
[06/10/2025, 14:52:38] Grant: that s ok!
next time i ll post earlier
[06/10/2025, 14:53:42] Grant: the drain kitchen drainage is fixed for now. the streambox is under the eaves of the barn
[06/10/2025, 14:53:58] Grant: it s true
[06/10/2025, 14:54:37] Grant: yes
all incomplete
[06/10/2025, 14:58:41] Grant: the baker spends the whole day baking. she knows when the bread will come out and roughly when the different stages will be done – the whole bakery is organised to allow those things to happen.. then i guess she has done it over and over – unlike the apprentice, who gets stuck to everything
[06/10/2025, 14:59:44] Sasha: Aha – time is sticky (as I think I mentioned in the last Shabbat time)
[06/10/2025, 15:00:02] Sasha: Sounds like temporal appropriation as Ross described it to be
[06/10/2025, 15:00:11] Sasha: I'm so jealous ur actually there!!
[06/10/2025, 15:00:15] Sasha: V cool
[06/10/2025, 15:02:24] Grant: also smelly in parts
[06/10/2025, 15:02:34] Grant: but hey tomoro is..
[06/10/2025, 15:02:51] Grant: harvesting corn at bellevue
[06/10/2025, 15:03:16] Grant: that could be a good broadcast
[06/10/2025, 15:05:06] Grant: there s a space here called la ambazada which is available for meetings, exchanges etc. it could be good for a radio thing maybe – i might ask them
[06/10/2025, 15:05:21] Grant: yes!
[06/10/2025, 15:07:38] Grant: if time is like working w dough.. trying to get things into some kinds of shape and getting stuck
[06/10/2025, 15:08:02] Grant: serres has that thing about the baker in rome
[06/10/2025, 15:08:45] Sasha: yes!
[06/10/2025, 15:08:59] Grant: folding time over and over itself..
[06/10/2025, 15:09:17] Sasha: sounds promising – or full of potentiality haha
[06/10/2025, 15:09:23] Grant: while it also rises
[06/10/2025, 15:09:27] Grant: ha yes
[06/10/2025, 15:09:51] Sasha: (re)search..
[06/10/2025, 15:10:05] Grant: it s funny to see the baker(s) walking about after seeing them at work – like magicians in mufti
[06/10/2025, 15:10:57] Sasha: hmm yes
[06/10/2025, 15:11:44] Grant: some ideas around
how time is (partly) separated off in performance, while remaining part..
[06/10/2025, 15:12:13] Grant: aha you can smell bread suddenly
[06/10/2025, 15:12:50] Grant: so many birds on the stream and insects –
[06/10/2025, 15:12:55] Sasha: What birthday is being celebrated at the ZAD?
[06/10/2025, 15:13:29] Grant: the 10th anniversary
of La Noé Verte
[06/10/2025, 15:14:02] Grant: where they have just opened a conserverie
[06/10/2025, 15:14:12] Sasha: thanks
[06/10/2025, 15:14:22] Sasha: of music?
[06/10/2025, 15:14:29] Grant: i haven t got over there yet
[06/10/2025, 15:14:37] Grant: of pickles
[06/10/2025, 15:14:49] Sasha: whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?
[06/10/2025, 15:15:11] Sasha: I am thinking its October so almost time to go in search of Auntie's mango chutney..
[06/10/2025, 15:15:13] Sasha: nice insects
[06/10/2025, 15:15:32] Grant: ah yes of course
[06/10/2025, 15:19:42] Sasha: that is a bakery of dreams! a little like that huge bread bin Paula once gave you as a gift.. ha
[06/10/2025, 15:19:52] Sasha: I think its scale would be more suited to this kinds of setting
[06/10/2025, 15:19:58] Grant: yes!
[06/10/2025, 15:21:18] Grant: i am stinky and vile after plumbing..
going to check the shower caravan
good luck with wrwrwriting
[06/10/2025, 15:25:06] Sasha: Planes..

With thanks to:

The bakers of the Boulangerie Des Fosses Noires
Les Fosses Noires collective
ZAD of Notre Dame Des Landes https://zadforever.blog/
Locus Sonus, Aix–Marseille for hosting the stream
ⲡ–node for the relay https://p-node.org/
Max Baraitser Smith for the Raspberry Pi stream recorder
Sasha Baraitser Smith for listening and chat

Links

https://zadforever.blog/
https://p-node.org/

Notes

[**] Discussion between Grant and Sasha about bakery stream from ZAD. Recorded 06/10/15 - 11:30 am (UTC+1 / Glasgow time)