Transmissions
You Only Guide Me By Surprise: Tape S-1-12
Landry Ayres US 2022)
Landry Ayres (US 2022)
20 min
Described as a suite of sonic somnambulism for those interested in poetry, peripety, magic or mystery. A guided meditation through committee or a dive into hypnosis through a clever plunderphonic escapade of 10 self help tapes from the 70's and 80's.
Producer: Landry Ayres
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Awful Grace: The Treachery Of Sounds
Champagne’s Electric US 2017)
The Champagne's Electric (US 2017)
32 min Episode 4 of 13
You’re never told what you’re hearing but through the sounds you have to piece together what it is that is happening. But is it correct? Have we been mislead? The haunting audio work still has me leaning in at the horror of what I’m hearing, a reality in real-time.
Awful Grace remains a mysterious and understated series of sound art, proving that a podcast can be whatever you want it to be.
Produced by The Champagne's Electric. Originally published for the podcast Awful Grace, or The Tolling of the Void Bell.
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The Confidential Briefing
Fari Bradley (UK 2017)
Produced by Fari Bradley (UK 2017)
49 min
The third episode of ‘The Far Becomes Near‘ series examines the social and political history of early radio in the United Arab Emirates. It comes as a cassette tape, handed to you, a member of the British diplomatic core, as you board a chartered jumbo jet for the emirate of Sharjah in the UAE. Set in 1978, the scenario imagines that as you settle down in your seat, heed the ‘permission to smoke’ announcement, you put the headphones of your Sony Walkman on. The cassette is background information in preparation for the International Telecommunications Expo to which you are headed, taking place in Abu Dhabi.
You can also hear Fari Bradley on her weekly with Six Pillars radio show on
Resonance 104.4fm
Producer: Fari Bradley
Commissioned by the Sharjah Art Foundation
Magneto Mori Vienna
Mark Vernon (UK 2019)
Produced by Mark Vernon (UK 2019)
47 min
A fragmented sound portrait of the city constructed from found sounds, buried tapes and field recordings. In this de-composition sounds from Vienna’s past and present are conjoined in a stew of semi-degraded audiotape.
Using a portable reel-to-reel tape recorder sounds from around the city were recorded direct to tape over a two-day period. This tape was then cut into fragments and buried in a hole in the ground with a number of tacky souvenir ‘Vienna’ fridge magnets that erase the portions of the tape that they come into contact with. After several days steeped in the muddy earth of a Viennese garden the remaining audio fragments were exhumed, washed, dried and spliced back together in random order.