Imagine yourself here, the night all scattered around you.
 
A Line of Tiny Soaps is an audio work built from text, field recording and sounds. Listening returns to indeterminacy and the night, landing in time for the winter solstice. Part 2 will be released first on the 7th and Part 1 will follow on the 21st December, when the gradual closing in of darkness stops, reversing us out of the present, week, month and year.

Textures of ‘found sound’ are combined to score a polyphonic voicing of text. Where ‘found sound’ is normally meant as the use of ‘noise’ in musical compositions, here, it’s extended to include field recordings at gigs or other live events. Music fighting for its place on the street through closed car windows, or ‘found’ outside nightclubs.

Best experienced listening on headphones, watching the light fade from the living room walls at the end of the day, on a bus to catch a ferry, in the park whilst a dog passes you with two different coloured eyes, on top of the bed curled up in a ball, or elsewhere. 

A Line of Tiny Soaps was commissioned by Catalyst Arts Belfast for release in December 2021.

Written and edited by Lucie McLaughlin.

Including recordings at gigs by Gordon Bruce and Anna O’Neill.

Vocals by Sara O’Brien, Megan Rudden, Cat McClay, Éiméar McClay, Alex Misick, Lucie McLaughlin.

Lucie McLaughlin is an artist and writer based between Belfast and Glasgow.

A Line of Tiny Soaps ~ Part 2

Catalyst Arts