An audio piece to represent Mountains created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This is live piano layered with deep booming growling sounds.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 23nd of January 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 10 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Mountains: Himalaya

An audio piece with the theme of Mountains created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This is live piano with a hint of white noise to evoke something like a sharp valley.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 23nd of January 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 10 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Mountains: The Dark Cliffs

An audio piece with the theme of Gateways created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This prose-poem ended a series of small vignettes that guided the listener through different audio scenes.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 20th of February 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 14 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Gateways: The Cavern Of Doors

An audio piece with the theme of The Moon created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This is a gentle melody in triangle waves, transposed from a live piano piece inspired by an oil painting, a painting called Angel on the Moon by Mark Sheeky.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 13th of March 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 16 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

The Moon: Stone Angel

An audio piece with the theme of Tuesday created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This is a mix of improvised speech and sound effects with live piano. Composed and performed by Mark Sheeky.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 24nd of April 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 22 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Tuesday: Two For One Tuesday

An audio piece with the theme of Borders created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This is a mix piano and speech on the subject of The Mandelbrot Set. Composed and performed by Mark Sheeky

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 5th of June 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 26 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Borders: Mandelbrot

An audio piece with the theme of Birds created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This is an expressionist solo piano piece about a lone starling. Composed and performed by Mark Sheeky.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 24nd of July 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 32 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Birds: Lone Starling

An audio piece with the theme of Africa created for arts radio programme ArtsLab on RedShift Radio. This piece contrasts the idea of Africa as paradise, the birthplace of humanity with the harsh Africa of military domination. Extracts of speeches by Idi Amin with screams are contrasted with the relaxed beauty of the Garden of Eden. Created for ArtsLab by Mark Sheeky.

Artslab includes 100% new content each week, and is always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 14th of August 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 35 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

Africa: Paradise Lost

An experimental piano piece with a few words created for the RedShift Radio programme, ArtsLab which ran from October 2015 to March 2018. The theme for this episode was The Dark Ages, and the work depicts the emergence of darkness into light. Speech and piano by Mark Sheeky.

From the start of 2017 Artslab included 100% new content each week, always experimental and creative. This track was first broadcast live on Monday the 31st of July 2017. The full programme, Artslab II Ep. 33 can be found on www.mixcloud.com/RedShiftRadio/playlists/artslab/

The Dark Ages: Out Of The Darkness

A rough song created and sung for the experimental arts radio programme ArtLab in 2017. The theme was Carpets, so this is a blues song about an old carpet. Played and sung in one go with a few overdubs for the audience, this is the only recording.

I'm threadbare, pulled thin
trodden like the mud on my skin
Walked on and ignored
and covered in dust
my yellowing fibres resembling rust

I'm flaky, snaky, falling apart
the weave on my soul chokes the wool in my heart
I'm holding together as dust
My skin is a colourless crust

I'm a hotel carpet, in a cheap Parisian backstreet
I'm choking on the nothing and the cigarette friends that I meet
well, they meet me,
they fall on my face and get crushed in
its the closest to love I get these days

I'm a hotel carpet, yellowy beigey putrid
Yes why not drag your rotten luggage over me

Walked on and ignored
covered in rust
my yellowing fibres resembling dust

Rug!
Rug!
Rug!

Blue Carpet (The Hotel Carpet Blues)

Experimental audio and extracts from the RedShift Radio programme ArtsLab, a weekly show where all of the content is created by artists. ArtsLab is produced and presented by Mark Sheeky.

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