What is it like to experience a manic episode? And how does one go about dealing with the repercussions of being extremely happy one day, and depressed for many days afterwards?

Aspiring radio producer Robin Blamires who underwent an episode of hypomania aged 22 uses his audio abilities to reveal how a love for the medium helped him to discover more about himself mentally, and dealing with scary situations that have recurred throughout a lifetime.

Narrated by Robin Blamires, with the additional voices of Ian Parkinson, Joe McDaniel, Georgina Davies-Knight, Andrea Rangecroft, Kemi Fatola,  James Waters, Jonathan Easton, John Harris, Sandie Pearson, and Karen Pearson.

Check out the audio diary showing the making of the podcast!
http://www.mixcloud.com/FoldedWing/tuned-in-to-the-future-inside-the-mind-of-a-hypomanic-audio-diary/

And the behind the scenes blog from Folded Wing!
http://www.foldedwing.co.uk/news_and_blog/1806-behind-the-scenes-inside-the-mind-of-a-hypomanic--a-bipolar-journey-through-sound

And last of all, a Spotify playlist showing the music used in the piece
and audio diary.

http://open.spotify.com/user/robinblamires/playlist/6E61KaggnT2OUcILVGRVel

Mental Health Websites:
http://www.rethink.org/

http://www.mind.org.uk
(Produced by Folded Wing)

Inside The Mind Of A Hypomanic - A Bipolar Journey Through Sound

Audio Producer - Samuel Robinson
Music Composition - Milo Thesiger-Meacham 
Photographer - Orlando Gili

A Seat in Soho was Created and Produced by Stella Cecil and Tiphaine Tailleux

A Seat in Soho -  Thien Tran

Ten years from the well-received “Inside The Mind Of A Hypomanic” soundscape,
Robin Blamires returns to provide a similar and extended exploration of autism and a love of audio and radio.

From nursery rhyme and story cassette tapes, to present day podcasts, with soul, jazz, and jingles in between, Why is sound is special? How does it create special memories out of simple experiences? And would it stay special if pursued as a career path?

Guest starring the voices of Karen P who co-produced the original bipolar soundscape, and those of many friends and family, it’s a unique audio insight into autism and special interests.

Read more at: https://robinblamires26.wordpress.com/rainbow

Special thanks to Luke Davies for use of audio from the “Radio Greats” podcast. 

Other archive audio via Paul Teague, Andy Walmsley and Jonathan Gold.

The Audio Rainbow

"America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space, The San Francisco Tape Music Festival features three distinct evenings of classic audio art and new fixed media compositions by 20 local and international composers. Hear members of the SF Tape Music Collective, along with guest composers, shape the sound live over a pristine surround system consisting of 24 high-end loudspeakers while the audience is seated in complete darkness. It's a unique opportunity to experience music forming - literally - around you."

Features: Luciano Berio "Visage", Pamela Z "De-Spangled" and Hugh Le Caine "Dripsody"

Theatre For The Ears: The San Francisco Tape Music Festival

On a street-corner, amidst the pigeons, San Francisco’s invisible stars shine. Around 10pm every Thursday, at the nondescript intersection of 16th & Mission in San Francisco, regulars, newcomers, and intrigued passers-by gather around an intricate chalk circle drawn on a concrete plaza; a long-running freeform street happening welcoming poets, musicians, comedians, and all forms of creative expression is about to start.

Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis

"Evidently Chickentown" is a poem by the English performance poet John Cooper Clarke. The poem uses repeated profanity to convey a sense of futility and exasperation. Featured on Clarke's 1980 album Snap, Crackle & Bop, the realism of its lyrics is married with haunting, edgy arrangements.

The poem bears a resemblance to an earlier work titled "Bloody Orkney", attributed to naval officer Hamish Blair during the Second World War. In 2009 Clarke said he "didn't consciously copy it. But I must have heard that poem, years ago. It's terrific."

"Evidently Chickentown" appears in Danny Boyle's 2001 film Strumpet, and in Jacques Audiard's 2012 film Rust and Bone. Clarke appears as himself reciting the poem in the 2007 British film Control, directed by Anton Corbijn. It was also used at the end of "Stage 5", a 2007 episode of the American television drama The Sopranos. Sean O'Neal of The AV Club wrote that the poem "ranks as one of the show's sharpest and most effective musical moments, somehow capturing the vexation of a New York mafia guy with the words of a British punk who's complaining about flat beer and cold chips."

John Cooper Clarke - Evidently Chickentown (original soundtrack)

Juniper (Prod. by Blu Majic Beat Co.)

Raw Meat Radio - Chris Morris

Lori Saginaw leads us on a tour through Detroit's Heidelberg Project where Tyree Guyton transformed the decrepit houses and streets into colourful large-scale art pieces. The project functions as both a commentary of the problems of the city's past and present, and a vehicle to improve the lives of people and neighborhoods through art.

Welcome to Heidelberg was produced by Samuel Shelton Robinson and the Kitchen Sisters

Welcome To Heidelberg

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