Here’s a classic number with backing in the style of the Radiophonic Workshop. The music was constructed from banging saucepan lids, tapping coffee cups, twanging rulers and shaking cereal boxes. The numbers come from the so-called Lincolnshire Poacher radio station, which has since ceased broadcasting after around 30 years. Yes it’s number’s finally up.
In this episode of Sound Builders, we went to Los Angeles, to meet with Mileece. She’s a sonic artist and environmental designer who’s developed the technology to give silent seedlings a portal to their own sonic expression.
An instrument built on a concrete wall, this installation reflects on the survival of information and our participation in that which we observe. Largely inspired by David Bohm’s ideas of active information and mutual participation.
Glenn Weyant and David Sherman’s art installation, “The Sherman-Weyant Anarchist Implosion,” is a site-specific ambient audio work inspired by Peter Young’s paintings on exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown Tucson. Using items from dumpsters on and around the UA campus, film projectors, a cello and various speakers, the artists aim to inspire people to take an unconventional approach to music, art and storytelling.
Operating as a warning system to mariners, lighthouses transmit signifiers of danger. They act as guides for safe travel. Through the medium of sound, this sculptural work, recontextualises radiophonic broadcasts of the shipping forecast, long wave radio noise and traces of distant orchestral waltz music. A doppler of disembodied sound messages rotate and transmit nostalgic memories, offering an invitation to consider metaphorical relationships to the purpose of a lighthouse.