Julia Clouter
Educational Leadership • Inclusion • Neurodiversity
Julia Opus Raven The Gatefold
The Museum of UBIK is a chamber of artefacts and echoes where objects remember more than they reveal.
Each piece is a small disturbance in the air, a portal humming with its own story.
Step between them and the world tilts slightly; soundscapes open like hidden doors, guiding you deeper into the archive’s strange machinery.
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The Museum of UBIK is a chamber of artefacts and echoes where objects remember more than they reveal.
Each piece is a small disturbance in the air, a portal humming with its own story.
Step between them and the world tilts slightly; soundscapes open like hidden doors, guiding you deeper into the archive’s strange machinery.
The Museum of UBIK is a ritual crossing, a place where the ordinary is set apart and the familiar becomes quietly ceremonial. Before you step inside, Buffers will meet you at the line between worlds.
He has delivered this welcome for longer than anyone remembers, each time a little different, each time a little truer. Click below to let him open the door; the Archive stirs only when the curator begins his invocation.
Museum of UBIK
Information Card
Ubiquitous British Icon Kipple (UBIK)
A curated archive of cultural residue, psychic lint, and improbable artefacts gathered
from the hidden corners of British life.
Each exhibit is preserved for study within the Museum’s containment wings, where soundscapes, field notes, and behavioural protocols reveal the mythic texture of the everyday.
UBIK catalogues the objects, smells, gestures, and moments that slip through the cracks of history.
There are thousands of exhibits - not all are on show.
This curated collection is continually expanding.
Julia Opus Raven - Head of Collections and Curatorial Services
The Wing of
Containment & Gesture
This wing is where the air thickens. Where objects don’t sit still.
Where the atmosphere has a slight nap to it, like velvet rubbed the wrong way.
It is the part of the Museum where behaviour leaks and gesture persists, long after the bodies
that made them have gone.
You don’t walk into this wing.
You cross a threshold and the wing walks into you.
It begins with a faint hum — not electrical, but social.
The kind of hum that gathers around nightclub doorways, fossilised dancefloors, and the places
where people once tried too hard to impress each other.
The hum of intention.
This wing houses artefacts that still remember what they were doing
A glance becomes a stare. A step becomes a sway. A memory becomes a compulsion.
This wing is not haunted. It is charged.
It is the part of the Museum where you realise that some artefacts don’t simply sit behind glass.
They breathe. They broadcast.
They remember you. And you remember them.
This Artefact is fondly dedicated to Jarvis Branson Cocker - cultural polymath & unlikely icon.
Specimen presented to UBIK by Julia Bartram - Student of Sculpture - St Martins College of Art 1994
Exhibit 002 - Hundi Pundi Invocation - Original Artefact
Exhibit 002a The Hundi Pundi Variants
Note to visitors: Should you feel inspired to record and send UBIK your Hundi Pundi Rundi
we are currently collecting regional accent submissions.
Please send to opusraven@yahoo.uk and mark your artefact
UBIK - Hundi Pundi - provide MP3 and state regional accent.
Funding for a Hundi Pundi wing is under consideration.
Received by Listening Post - 18/07/2026 - Status - Added to UBIK Collection
The Hundi Pundi Investigation
Investigation File 002A
Listening Carefully for the small things that refuse to disappear
When Artefact 002 – The Hundi Pundi – first entered the museum, it was understood
to be a family ritual inherited from one generation to the next.
Then, unexpectedly, a new witness came forward.
An audio interview with Richard Bartram has revealed that the story may
reach further back than anyone realised.
According to Richard, Hundi Pundi was not invented within the family at all, but
was a mysterious expression used by a school friend during the early 1960s.
His name was remembered as:
Klaus Reiner Henry Jenkin Morgan.
Richard recalls that Klaus described Hundi Pundi as something like an abracadabra.
A playful spoken charm, repeated with theatrical flourish and complete confidence.
A tiny spell carried through a school playground.
Over sixty years later, the phrase still survives.
The Museum cannot yet determine whether Hundi Pundi was unique to one boy, borrowed from somewhere else, or
once part of a much wider piece of playground folklore.
What we do know is this:
Someone remembered.
Someone repeated it.
Someone passed it on.
And because of that, it has travelled across generations to arrive here.
That, in itself, is remarkable.
Rather than closing the case, this new evidence opens it.
Artefact 002 is now considered an active investigation.
Have You Heard Hundi Pundi?
The Museum of UBIK is now seeking further evidence.
Have you ever heard the words Hundi Pundi?
Did somebody in your family say it?
Was it part of a game?
A magic word?
A playground rhyme?
A dice ritual?
A joke?
Did it have anotherspelling?
Another pronunciation?
Another meaning?
Perhaps you remember it being spoken with great ceremony...
Or perhaps it appeared only once, many years ago.
Even the smallest memory could help us trace the journey of this curious little phrase.
Submit Your Evidence
If you recognise Hundi Pundi in any form, we would love to hear from you.
Please send us:
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your memories
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audio recordings
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photographs
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family stories
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letters or diaries
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drawings
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local knowledge
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alternative spellings or pronunciations
Every contribution becomes part of The Hundi Pundi Investigation, helping us understand how a tiny fragment of spoken folklore managed to survive across decades.
Somewhere, someone else may still remember saying it.
Perhaps that someone is you.
Hundi Pundi - Klaus Reiner Henry Jenkin Morgan's Hundi Pundi
Received by Listening Post - 03/08/2026 - Status - Under Investigation
Captain 'Black Jack' Raven's Hundi Pundi - Shanty Variant Number 1
Received By Listening Post - 03/08/2026 - Status - Added to UBIK Collection
Alistair Nathaniel Du Pontefract - Hundi Pundi - Applied Conjuration Variant 1
Received by Listening Post - 05/08/2026 - Status - Added to UBIK Collection
Provenance: First recorded example of Stage Magic usage submitted by Alistair Nathaniel Du Pontefract, accompanied by the celebrated Majestic Artatartar performance of The Great Jarjar Jacob Jarjar and Jarjar Anastasiata Chubchubby.
Remarks: Although no evidence currently exists for the widespread ceremonial use of Hundi Pundi in stage illusion, the submission demonstrates a commendable willingness to investigate the possibility experimentally. Further magical evidence invited.
Buffers Classification Note:
Hundi Pundi - Musical Submission 002
Contributor: Alistair Nathaniel Du Pontefract
Classification: Stage Magic / Applied Conjuration
Status: Audible Mishap
Summary: Evidence suggesting Hundi Pundi my have been empolyed as an incantation during theatrial ilusion, with mixed results
Exhibit 004 The Sonophile's Chair
The Sonophile's Chair represents the pinnacle of obsessive, artisanal British hi-fi culture.
Pirajean Lees suggests that the listening chair itself, is not just a place to sit, but should be considered as a critical acoustic component. In a meticulously designed British listening environment, the sonophile's chair represents the ultimate choice for relaxation and liminal journeys into paper based media.
The Wing of Subliminal
Ornithological Messaging
This wing documents the quietest scandal of the 1990s:
The decade in which British marketing agencies stopped targeting consumers and started targeting birds.
Not all birds, just the ones that loitered. The ones that watched. The ones that repeated things.
The Woodpigeon was the first to be recruited.
The Woodpigeon Programme
In 1995, a small West London agency developed a covert audio‑conditioning scheme designed to embed retail prompts into the natural call of Columba palumbus. The results were immediate and uncanny.
Visitors entering this wing will hear the reconstructed call:
Buy… tinned… sliced peaches…
It is not loud. It is not persuasive. It is simply there, like a memory you didn’t know you had.
This wing houses Tinned Sliced Peaches (Artefact 30),
The flagship exhibit of the programme — the product most successfully embedded
into the British subconscious via avian repetition.
The Spoon Directive
A second, lesser‑known initiative attempted to train pigeons to encourage shoppers to
“Look at the Spoons.”
The purpose of this remains unclear. Some believe it was an early attempt at cutlery‑based brand placement. Others argue it was simply a side‑effect of the pigeons’ natural fascination with reflective surfaces.
The Museum takes no position. The pigeons, however, were adamant.
The Yellowhammer Campaign
The final experiment involved the yellowhammer. A bird already known for its mnemonic call.
Marketers attempted to embed a grocery reminder into its song:
"Another loaf of bread… and blue cheese…"
Field recordings suggest partial success. Behavioural studies from the period show a measurable increase in bread‑and‑cheese purchases among residents living within yellowhammer territories.
This wing preserves the reconstructed calls, the training notes, and the absurd ambition of a decade that believed birds could be used as ambient retail influencers.
Exhibit 30 - Tinned Sliced Peaches can be purchased in The Gift Shop
Proto UBIK
Artefacts under review
This wing contains the current curators personal artefacts.
Currently funding for this wing is limited.
(See. Ask The Senco for A Side Details of Actual Day Job)
Should any beneficiaries wish to support this curators work
please get in touch.
opusraven@yahoo.co.uk
POLITE NOTICE
We are no longer accepting single socks
we are unable to accomodate any more at the present time.
Funding to extend
The Wing of Personal Detritus, Kipple & Proto-UBIK
is currently underway.
Exhibit 001 - The Whatnot of Julia Opus Raven
Museum of UBIK
Department of Public Acquisitions
Have you recently discovered an object, sound, ritual, phrase or inexplicable domestic phenomenon that appears to have followed you through life?
Our curatorial team would be delighted to examine your submission.
Please note:
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Objects need not be valuable.
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Stories are considered a valid form of provenance.
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Family sayings are especially welcomed.
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Lost sounds should be packaged carefully.
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If your artefact has never behaved quite normally, please tell us when you first noticed.
Thank you for helping preserve the ordinary before it disappears.
Accepted formats: audio, image, video, document
"To collect is to rescue things from the curse of being useful, and to give them a new life in the kingdom of the imagination." — Jean Baudrillard