Soft Shell Radio is a broadcast of performances, recordings and readings by Lucille Brownrigg, Hayley Jane Dawson, RS Dennis, Maeve Dolan, Rosie O’Grady, Carlotta Riechmann, Leah Sinforiani, Percy Miranda Alvarez Trabado, and others.
Soft Shell Radio is organised and produced by Timothea Armour and Joey Ryken, in collaboration with Mark Vernon and Radiophrenia, and is part of A SMALL POOL presented by Art Writing for the Postgraduate Degree show at The Glasgow School of Art.
Schedule:
14:05 Lucille Brownrigg | BECOMING ELEMENT: ‘dirt-eater-echo’
muddlements +mouthmusic Mud moulds the mouth of music. Lucille is building an instrument!, cave like and cavernous, to stretch the voice, becoming deeper into the object. Following on from ‘SINGING INTO REVERBERANT SPACES’, a collection of field recordings, of songs in tunnels, pipes and caves, this is a series of explorations into the voice, reverberation and mud moulding.
14:25 Percy Miranda Alvarez Trabado | Do pigeons fly?
A question without an answer, a song that keeps you pondering, Do Pigeons Fly?
14:30 RS Dennis | Fireside
14:50 Hayley Jane Dawson | Is the Person OK, Is the Person With Us
15:00 Lottie Reichmann and Leah Sinforiani | ANTAGONIST AUNTS
GET THIS! A SHOW WHERE TWO PEOPLE WHO DON’T REALLY KNOW WHAT THEY’RE TALKING ABOUT TELL YOU WHAT TO DO ABOUT YOUR PROBLEMS. Leah and Lottie know lots of things about the world and beyond. Join them as they help you navigate the universe and also your anonymous trials and tribulations I guess……
15:30 Maeve Dolan | spinning thread
Maeve has used field recordings, spoken word, acoustic harp playing and digital instruments to create a vulnerable and entrancing music piece. She experiments with elements of ambient, folk and electronic music to create a unique music style. The piece explores contrast; an intimate exploration of the sensation of bliss, both in its serenity and unease. The predominance of repeated rhythmical patterns combined with spoken word creates the impression of language as it falls away to rhythm and sensation. Maeve uses music to explore her own emotional and cognitive states. She is interested in creating meditative and rhythmical cognitive landscapes for others to experience and share in.
15: 50 Timothea Armour | East Lothian Gothic – Episode II – Love on a Farmboy’s Wages
Despite failing to convince the industry professionals to fund their TV series in episode 1, Pitch Story and Memoir head out in to East Lothian to do some location research, but no one’s written the plot yet.
16:05 Joey Ryken | under the tomb of the stiff plexus
A chat with ChatGPT to invoke garbles and glossolalia, cursed text-to-speech aleatory, Antonin Artaud’s apocalyptic glossolalia, Garrison Keillor as simulation, and more, via virtual vocalities and vocables…
16:30 Rosie O’Grady and Tilda O’Grady | ***
Interspersed throughout broadcast: Maria Howard | Intervals
From an ongoing series entitled ‘striations’ – sounds of fluting, fissures, ripples, strings, discordant loops of architectural styles and social reproduction
Featuring:
Fiddle versions of ‘Bella Ciao’ and ‘Fischia il Vento’ by Ruaridh Newman
Tones by an unknown organist at Glasgow Cathedral
Stridulations by anonymous collectives of crickets in Italy and Scotland (with occasional Italian frog vocals)