Schisma Gulf, Isogloss & Lament For The Old Clock
Three works for radio by composer and sound artist Harvey Young.
First, Schisma Gulf: “In September 2024, I traced ethnographer Maurice Born’s journey to the island of Spinalonga, a former leper colony in the Gulf of Elounda, Crete. Buoyed by foggy iterations of Saint Panteleimon and mid-50s atrium film nights, I set about sonifying his initial investigations, from his arrival in a blow-up dinghy to the final survey of the admission and disinfection buildings.”
Secondly, Isolgoss, a composition for five loudspeakers: “I’d been reading linguist James Burridge’s work on dialectal formation and spread. He applies surface tension dynamics to the interaction between language groupings. I thought it would be tasteful to interpret these mechanics using extended vocal techniques (trills, ululation, phonetically varied vowel shapes) and granular synthesis to capture the kineticism that underpins linguistic evolution. Mixed into spatial audio at Piel View House, Cumbria.”
Thirdly, Lament for the Old Clock which tells the story of an 18th-century agricultural worker plunged into the vicious new frontier of industrial capitalism who must leave his simple agrarian existence behind and submit to the callous and dehumanising demands of the factory floor. The piece documents the change in temporality from the feudal notion of cyclical, reverential time to the concept of future-oriented progress that defined the beginning of the industrial revolution. Through extended vocal techniques, found instruments and granulation, Lament for the Old Clock explores this transient yet profound period of temporal and spiritual upheaval.
Harvey is a composer-in-residence at the Abeceda Institute, Ljubljana (2025), and has presented electroacoustic installations in Europe and North America. His experimental opera and poetry works have been commissioned by Resonance Extra and Whitechapel Gallery, and he writes at presents Pitch-Complex on Radio Worm. He has contributed research to Oscar-nominated producer Jaimie D’Cruz’s Acme Films, and assisted John Akomfrah on the video installation In the Hour of the Dog for the Baltimore Museum of Art.
Statue Of Liberty
Thousands of Radia fans have been asking what Ed Baxter has been doing since leaving Resonance after 23 years. Here is the answer. Statue of Liberty is an experimental big band featuring Otti Albietz (guitar, voice), Matt Armstrong (bass), Ted Barrow (electronics), Ed Baxter (concept, hand signals), Kit Bula-Edge (percussion), Toby Bula-Edge (saxophone), Adam Bushell (vibraphone), Fritz Catlin (drums), Helen Dodaki (voice), Stuart Griffiths (saxophone), Julian Juliano (percussion), Kitty McCarron (voice), Jude Montague (keyboards), Anthony Moore (electronics) and Tullis Rennie (trombone). Engineer: Theo Passingham. This excerpt from its inaugural performance comprises El Derecho De Vivir En Paz (Victor Jara); Left Bank Two (Robert Dale); Love in Outer Space (Sun Ra); and Now O Now I Needs Must Part (John Dowland). Thanks to XMTR Festival and Sono-Electro without whom this would not have happened.
riff krrrrrrrr krrrr, bruit d’orage
A programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.
Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.
Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake’s method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.
Field Notes
Side A - For Kites
Sounds made on Residency, Bundanon Trust, October 2022, Development # 2.
A day in the rehearsal space, experimental sound, guitar pedals and vocals. Casio Watch Alarm; Fender Delux Reverb Tone Master Amplifier, Reverb, Vibrato; Boss ME-70 Multi Effects, Compression, Classic Distortion, Delay, Loop Pedal, Expression Pedal Octave Pitch Shift; Panasonic SlimLine RQ 2102 Cassette Recorder, Field Recording ; Boss VE-20 Vocal Performer, Reverb, Looper Pedal.
The Wind and the Sun. Playing the cassette BUN 2_8 Side A. In the grassy field where the kangaroos gather at dusk; a HEAVY wind. The Mona Lisa, a heavy kite. SOUND and sun blaring. Kite flyers running. Skin tingling. A concert to nature. Satisfying exhaustion. – Joe Wilson
Side B – The Storm
Field Recording of a thunderstorm made on Residency at Bundanon Trust, August - October 2023, Development # 3 & 4.
A Personal Note, a Broken Heart, a Broken Body. Bundanon, a gully flat. Surrounded by hills. The storm is caught on the high rocks and is flung around the encroaching bushland. The lightning sheers across the last of the evening’s sunlight, across the way, a distance. The thunder chases the light, the sound chases the cut sky. Drawing closer. Volume rising. Bright white cracks become total for an instant. Birds continue to sing. Trees fall. – Joe Wilson
This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.
Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.
Supported by Higher Ground Studios.
This episode was made as part of the Bundanon Trust artists in residence programme, and has been performed live at the Bundanon Museum. The Museum is on the stolen land of the Dharawal and Dhurga language groups.
My poor subjectivity… I can give it away.
Dominic J. Jaeckle & Nadia de Vries, Verse & Chorus
An exquisite corpse of an “I” played out in a multiplicity of voices, Verse & Chorus is an experimental act of collaborative reworking that quilts and collages cuts from two manuscripts (Jaeckle and de Vries) into an imagined third object. In order of appearance, the piece assembles readings from Nadia de Vries, Cíntia Gil, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Mark Lanegan, Stanley Schtinter, Becket Flannery, and Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, with an accompaniment of borrowed songs and original music from Matthew Shaw, Mark Lanegan, and Duke Garwood.
Jaeckle and de Vries writings are excerpted from two collections published by Dostoyevsky Wannabe; Jaeckle’s 36 Exposures and de Vries’ I Failed to Swoon, 2021. Verse & Chorus was first broadcast on Montez Press Radio (New York), 29.01.21, and was broadcast thereafter as an element of the online programme for the 2021 edition of Rewire Festival (The Hague, Netherlands), 06.05.21.
Readers, in order of appearance : Nadia de Vries, Cíntia Gil, Diamanda La Berge Dramm, Mark Lanegan, Stanley Schtinter, Becket Flannery, Vilde Valerie Bjerke Torset, Matthew Shaw & Duke Garwood.
Artwork by Jason Shulman, ‘Lenticular Marilyn,’ © 2017
I would buy the guiltiness of everyooooonnnneeee
Chaque mercredi *Duuu diffuse une émission inédite réalisée par l’une des radios du réseau Radia, groupe international informel de radios libres. Radia se veut un espace de réflexion sur la radio et la création radiophonique d’aujourd’hui. Cette semaine *Duuu diffuse Dead Cat Bounce by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera for Resonance fm.
A live performance of improvised and reimagined music and text from the project “Dead Cat Bounce” - a collaborative performance work by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Waste Paper Opera, telling tales of time, money and the unmaking of reality in the wake of catastrophe. The original piece unfolds over five vignettes, blurring the lines between capitalism and ritual, finance and nature, belief and manifestation. The original score merges the Baroque music of Niccolò Jommelli and J.S.Bach with mimetic improvisation, choral rounds, synthpop and the textures of public speaking. “Dead Cat Bounce” takes the form of an oratorio, a medium of vocal performance used to deliver a sacred narrative.
Music by James Oldham. Text by Gary Zhexi Zhang and Klara Kofen. Violin - Chihiro Ono; drums - Cameron Graham; additional performer/band leader - James Oldham; banker/reader - Klara Kofen; banker/Namazu - Gary Zhexi Zhang; Mezzo soprano (Jeremiah) - Suzie Purkis; Baritone (Real Estate Agent of Miami) - Themba Mvula; chorus - Jacob Bolton, Keir Cooper, Gabriella Demczuk, Klara Kofen, Livvy Lynch, Themba Mvula, James Oldham, Suzie Purkis, Gary Zhexi Zhang. Thanks to Resonance Extra, Milo Thesiger-Meacham and Travis Yu.
Waste Paper Opera is an experimental music theatre collective currently based in London. Defining “Waste Paper” as any found text with the potential for recontextualisation, we write music, build structures, make costumes, and write stories using Waste Paper.
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Currently based in London, for Radia singer-songwriter That Travis revisited their work “New Poem.” Originally released in 2021, the EP dived into the spaciousness within their imagination through songwriting and weaving woodwinds with voice. Experiencing lockdown at the time, they lived through solitude with one eye open; while the other one was reserved, longing for intimacy. That Travis is originally from Hong Kong, with a background of a colonised education and indigenous Hong Kong traditions. While the two worlds fight for presentation within their work, they exhibit an organic mixture of all influences through sonic expressions, lyrics and visual aids.
Une proposition de That Travis et Resonance pour le réseau Radia.
Depuis l’été 2022, *Duuu fait partie du réseau Radia, groupe international informel de radios libres créé en avril 2005. Ses différents membres possèdent un intérêt commun dans la production et la diffusion d’œuvres pour la radio. Le réseau se veut un espace de réflexion sur la radio et la création radiophonique d’aujourd’hui. Ses activités tentent de contribuer à l’échange interculturel et à la circulation des œuvres et des artistes.