8 Voiceovers of different ranges and commercial styles

COMMERCIAL VOICEREEL 2022

A Pastiche of Edgar Lee Masters’ Spoon River (1915) prompted by Braden Coucher on WQTN Artists Radio, weekly writer rooms by Mary O'Loan 

Tragic, said Smith, such a beauty so deep in muck.
Not a sinner to witness the undulation of her soul.
Enter dusk, in front of her stiff body capped
On Laphroaig and perfumed brandy hanging still
Up and to the side of a sleeping stool.
A hazy musk of frankincense​ long gone burning,
Catches circles of her ethereal feet
Dressed precisely in ballet slippers.
The sight of a dried pressed rose, crisp
Marking this page of her life in poetry.
No motion.


Tragic, said Smith.
‘Minding her intensity on a heavy bar stool
Holding the boat, anchored her weight through a ‘lock in’
amongst war torn men
Passionately rolling and smoking her hardships.
Delivering reason and ‘ware to seniors,
Sailing on 24 yr old Teeling, stunting their maturity;
Not as to respect her knowing depth but to excuse stares
to her mild, barely there breast.
Pondering the age of the spirit she drowned,
Summing the voiced tales beyond her years,
He equated a justification for the satisfaction he found
In visions of molestation to this bold ‘n’ fair rose;
Who in the bar alone amongst men intoxicated
Offers a voluntary subjection
To their piss ridden dick beaters and the attempted transmission of stale infections.
After arriving to offload, articulate a discursive mind
Amongst trusted elders of Spoon River
At 23 she punctures through a construct built to empower fools
Saddened by old men on tall stools
Revering in fantasies of degradation

Finding gold not in her heart but the thought of her crying
At their hands
Tragic she thought, and off she set, wrapped in a fine persian gown.
Satisfied she knew enough in her heart
To free her from this town.
So she planted her old soul with love in the muck,
Two fingers up
Eleanore’s spirit ages older than the one she drank
Lay resting ‘til another time
Where flowers of life,
Matured wine pressed by hand
are treasured more than men collecting drool on dry mouths.

Spoon River : ‘A series of short free verse of poems written as Masters pondered headstones by the real ‘Spoon River’ by his home town of Lewistown, Illinois. His poems narrate the epitaphs of the former citizens of a mythical Midwestern town. They speak touchingly from the grave of the thwarted hopes, dreams and affairs of their lives’

Thanks for reading x

Eleanores Spirit

An experiential soundscape that preludes 'Copper Tongue' a rampant cauldron that questions where female bodies are colonised and intoxicated with Contraceptive Inventions without question.

Copper Tongue  (A Work in Progress) is happening at the Mac, Belfast on 20th March 2024

Featuring 

Mary O'Loan
Margarita Murphy 
Laura O'Neill 

with support from 
Maria Jonston 
Ciara Domwan

Photography and Videography - Bloomfeild Productions

Copper Tongue

Copper Tongue - Prelude

Written in the run up to covid struggling to cope with the side effect's of other people's anxieties pre-covid. Recorded for WQTN Artist Radio's Anti Viral Open Mic experimenting with a free trial on a sound mixing app Mary mixed her work with Seanchaí off the recently released Irish album 'Couldn't give a Rats' by The Scratch, it struck audiences and stuck. 

Photo of Mary O'Loan by  Laura MacLenna

Seanchaí (shan-a-key) were traditional Irish storytellers and the custodians of history for centuries in Ireland. They could recite ancient lore and tales of wisdom whenever it was needed and could be considered as something of the Google of ancient times.

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As covid stuck Mary began imagining an alternative future this is an audio to 'Lucy' from Lucy's future self. 

A hopeful, ambitious prophecy written and performed March 2020

Photo of Hebe Fox by Mary O'Loan

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Written in London 2017 with disgust and despair for the poverty within and around her.

Image of Mary O'Loan by Rose Bruford

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Written in 2013 by Mary O'Loan frustrated artistically and spiritually by dyslexia and education standards.

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