Between you and me

I’ll be taking up a place on the Masters in Music and Media Technologies in Trinity at the end of September and moving to Dublin probably mid-September to watch some Fringe shows and seeing as I already have a ticket for Joanna Newsom in the Grand Canal theatre on the 14th, I may as well sort myself out with somewhere to live.

It has been a while since I last updated this blog and Paul has been telling me to pull up my socks, so I should mention myself and Paul Staunton worked on two tiny radio pieces in June/July which we submitted to the Third Coast Audio Short Docs challenge; Book Odds.

Lately, I’m working on putting together a 10min piece for radio based around the intertidal zone. The piece will explore (with words and sounds) how life adapts to adaptation and can in some cases start to depend on it – a liquid that takes its form from the vessel that contains it. A love poem to all those creatures that exist in the in between. Here is a taster. There will be voice over this, so it really is just a flavour of what the piece will be.

For culture night this September 24th I’ll be installing a short audio piece for the Pearse Centre at the Ireland Institute in Dublin. I’m really tempted to use some examples from Roger Casement’s life along with sounds from the intertidal zone for this piece. Casement is a fascinating character who managed to be both coloniser and colonised, British and Irish, hero and anti-hero. I came across some valuable insights into Casement’s life in this book here:

Book of Migrations: Some Passages in Ireland by Rebecca Solnit

It’s always interesting to learn something new about national history from someone from a different country. I was recently turned on to Rebecca Solnit after minding a copy of the Field Guide to Getting Lost for a friend. The Field Guide is definitely the best but there are lots of interesting ideas in Wanderlust and the above book too, both of which I’ve been able to get in my local library. Hoorah for libraries.

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