From a 2008 project "Le Madame", curated by Patricia Scanlon and featuring the voices of Scanlon, Deborah Levy and Mine Kaylon

The Destruction Of Language (after Le Madame)

A 'remote haunting' created as part of a practice-based PhD 'KIllruddery: Listening to the Archive' at SMARTlab UCD, supported by the Irish Research Council. This particular haunting was conceived during the 'Time Travel' research project, courtesy of Creative Futures Academy at NCAD and IMMA. 

The final version of this piece will be installed in the grounds of the Killruddery estate as part of a geo-located sound trail 'The Ancestors'. The version heard here differs slightly from that.

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Beneath A Divided Sky

'Baby Giuseppe' taster

Words and music: Joseph Young aka Baby Giuseppe
Lead vocal: Baby Giuseppe
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Arrangement: Joseph Young & Richard Crowe
Backing vocals: Young & Rich
Synths: Young
Drum programming: Rich
Guitars: Rich

I Can't Believe it!

Grief has many sounds including “hopelessness, despair and loss of meaning of life,” says Ukrainian, Nataliia Kurhan.  This soundscape presents many griefs of this war which Nataliia describes after fleeing Ukraine when the war began.  She reveals the strength, steadiness, and courage required to survive this war.  Included are segments of air raid sirens recorded by her friends in Dnipro, Ukraine, shown in borders of visual image, as well as segments of vocal, choral, and piano compositions I composed and performed in Canada and USA in response to Ukrainian grief.

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Ukraine Grief with Nataliia Kurhan

This audio paper explores through a ‘thinking out loud’ how  soundwalking practices in the landscape can contribute to the discussion of contested histories through the creation of immersive sonic encounters. The paper takes as its starting point a recently completed practice-based PhD research project in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland which explored the colonial-era archives of an Irish aristocratic family through walking and listening. 

The PhD, Killruddery: Listening to the Archive explored what it means to listen to a written archive, in order to examine how that archive could be brought into the public realm as a walking experience, displacing the hidden voices, the 'sonic spectres of archive' into the grounds of the Killruddery estate where they are summoned through the power of geo-location. 

In this remote audio paper, the idea of listening to the archive is brought to audition as a methodology for an artistic research process, how musing whilst walking (and simultaneously recording those thoughts) contributed to an artistic understanding of place and social context, through the interaction of the lived soundscape and the artist’s internal dialogue. The geo-located soundwalk that was produced as a result, The Ancestors (currently live on the Echoes platform) re-enacts this listening process for the listener/walker as they encounter the titular ancestors, the landscape and architecture whilst immersing themselves in over 400 years of archival material. 

Using original field recordings from the Killruddery estate, overlaid with a central narrative voice, the artist-researcher attempts to think through a process of examination, sonification and experience, using the audio essay format. 

“How do we walk this place,
In silence or in doubt?
How do we understand history,
Through architecture 
or through absence”

(Young, 2020, Walk This Place)

Soundwalking, Listening and Contested Histories

Steps Toward Inner Peace - An audio version of our 32 page booklet including a talk given by Peace Pilgrim on a Los Angeles radio station in 1964 - read by Ann Rush

Steps Toward Inner Peace

Part urban guide, part detective fiction, part film noir, Janet Cardiff's The Missing Voice (Case Study B) entwines you in a narrative that shifts through time and space in London's East End. Seductive, intimate, even conspiratorial, Cardiff’s audio-walks are psychologically absorbing experiences - for an audience of one at a time.

NOTE: in 1999 when the project was created, the experience would begin in The Whitechapel Library, which closed in 2005. As such, please begin listening to the first instalment outside of The Whitechapel Gallery (into which the former Whitechapel Library building was absorbed) by the entrance closest to Osborn St / Brick Lane. You can then follow the narrator's instructions once she has left the library. She will instruct you when to begin parts 2 and 3.

To find out more about The Missing Voice (Case Study B), visit: http://www.artangel.org.uk/projects/1999/the_missing_voice_case_study_b

Image: The Missing Voice (Case Study B) by Janet Cardiff

Tour: The Missing Voice (Case Study B) — part 2

Part urban guide, part detective fiction, part film noir, Janet Cardiff's The Missing Voice (Case Study B) entwines you in a narrative that shifts through time and space in London's East End. Seductive, intimate, even conspiratorial, Cardiff’s audio-walks are psychologically absorbing experiences - for an audience of one at a time.

NOTE: in 1999 when the project was created, the experience would begin in The Whitechapel Library, which closed in 2005. As such, please begin listening to the first instalment outside of The Whitechapel Gallery (into which the former Whitechapel Library building was absorbed) by the entrance closest to Osborn St / Brick Lane. You can then follow the narrator's instructions once she has left the library. She will instruct you when to begin parts 2 and 3.

To find out more about The Missing Voice (Case Study B), visit: www.artangel.org.uk/projects/1999/t…ce_case_study_b

Image: The Missing Voice (Case Study B) by Janet Cardiff


Tour: The Missing Voice (Case Study B) — part 3

A stereo mixdown taken from a four channel site-specific sound installation at Newarke Gateway, Leicester as part of "in Situ" commissioned by Leicester De Montfort University in partnership with IRCAM. Using contemporary field recordings mixed with archive sounds, the piece evokes the importance of a brown field site in England in shaping mythologies of nationalism and identity. In this case, the contested site of The Battle of Bosworth.

A field in England (Excerpt from Part 1)

Sonic artist, specialist in binaural field recording, geo-located hauntological soundtrail "The Ancestors", now on show at Killruddery House & Gardens in Ireland. Award-winning sound designer for theatre, TV and radio.

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