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How have our dreams been shaped by our confinement? What does quarantine do to the subjects and objects, landscapes and figures of our dreams?

Since the 17th of March 2020 a collaborative document has been underway for people to record their dreams. Those contributing leave the dream, signed with their initials, the date and their location. 

For MayDay Radio, Rona Lorimer has prepared this bulletin: on the place and appearance of hands in the collected dreams. Here she reads this bulletin, recorded from isolation in Marseille on the 13th of April 2020. 

For a previous bulletin, on animals and creatures in the dreams, check out our friends and comrades at Droplet Radio https://www.spreaker.com/user/fredagaften/drbrd-1a

Follow ‘dreams under confinement’ on twitter and tumblr here:
https://twitter.com/dreamdiarygang
https://dreamsunderconfinement.tumblr.com 

You can also find further programmes and materials on questions of sleep and dream on MayDay Radio’s main website, including ‘How to Dream Faster’ with Sam Dolbear and Hannah Proctor (https://audio.maydayrooms.org/how-to-dream-faster) and ‘Sleep Bait’ with Esther Leslie and Florence Warner (https://audio.maydayrooms.org/sleep-bait)

Image: Dora Maar

Dreams in Confinement | Bulletin 2 on Hands

As part of our poetry series (https://audio.maydayrooms.org/reading-john-wieners), listen to Laurel Uziell read from her new book T.  

The scene of this poem is the Rebecca Riots, which took place in rural Wales in the early 19th century – farmers cross dressed and tore down toll gates which were being imposed at the time, and the rioters were known as ‘Rebecca and her daughters’. (See David Williams, The Rebecca Riots: A Study in Agrarian Discontent (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2011 (1955)), p.122.) Supposedly, they would perform this scene before tearing down a tollgate (the source for this, according to Wikipedia, is the South Wales Police Museum…). Feinberg characterises them as one of the first trans rebellions, and while I’m not quite sure about this claim, I think it still kind of represents a kind of historical continuity in the way the whole GRA consultation played out as a kind of absurd drama at every level (not just on the stage of the magistrate’s court, but more broadly as ‘spectacle’) - as well as the more obvious point about the performance of gender, and a debt owed to trans elders. Besides this, there’s also a kind of overwrought extended joke about gatekeeping and the gender pathway on the NHS, which was an issue the discussion around the GRA raised.

Order the book here: http://material-s.blogspot.com

Laurel Uziell reads from T | MayDay Radio Poetry Series

This represents the start of a new MayDay Radio series on food and sound: a recording of Georgia A making an omelette, with onion, potato, chives and olives. An NTS playlist plays in the background: 

https://www.nts.live/shows/flaneur-radio/episodes/flaneur-radio-w-max-barbaria-22nd-april-2020

From here we want to start hosting simultaneous cookery shows to think about eating together/apart during lockdown. If you are interested to be involved (or want to send your own recordings)please contact: audio@maydayrooms.org

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MayDay Radio Cooking Series | Spanish Omelette w Georgia A

It has been six weeks since Georgia Anderson interviewed someone who worked at the Nightingale Hospital at the Excel centre in London. 

In this programme they discuss how the government clearly used the hospital as a flimsy PR stunt, costing the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds, and arguably contributing to the huge, and increasing death toll. We now have the biggest death toll in Europe, and our press has completely failed to report this. 

Most NHS staff have been told not to speak out about how badly our failing, privatised NHS is serving the population, least of all treating its workers. Some NHS staff who have whistle-blown have been sacked. 

Nationalise the NHS, save our workers and our health service.

Listen to the first part here, recorded in early April: https://soundcloud.com/maydayradionotes/on-the-workers-at-nightingale-hospitals-04042020

Nightingale Chronicles #2 – failure

During an interview, we stopped to eat a waffle and boy was it delicious.

chocolate waffle interlude

You are invited to a potluck brunch with MayDay Radio
Cook what you like together apart

Sunday 17th May @ 11am BST 🍳

We have compiled here a number of recipes here to inspire your brunch

The full recipes and dull details of the event are available here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1_muzz…/edit?usp=sharing

For more details on the event, see your facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/2295694584065554/

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Thank you to Holly White, Delia Smith, Larne Abse Gogarty and Lucy Duncan for their time and recipes. Their voices were mixed with a found video on YouTube entitled "ASMR Cooking Breakfast with Rebecca (No talking) Frying sounds, paper crinkles, running water"

Brunch recipe audio card | w. Holly, Delia, Larne and Lucy

Bullring shopping centre, toilets and five different buskers on New Street, on a sunny day during a pandemic.

Birmingham City Centre 26 June 2020

Visit our website for more details https://audio.maydayrooms.org/tape-club

Tape Club #1 | shopping centres and fizzy drink cans

TECHNO ACTIVATE | ORAL HISTORY PROJECT

INTERVIEW WITH HOWARD SLATER

Interviewers: Poppy Tibbetts and Louis Hill 

Date of Interview: Friday January 31, 2020

Friday 31st of January 2020

Location of Interview: Prufrock Cafe in London

Transcribed by Louis Hill available: 

https://audio.maydayrooms.org/techno-activate

Techno Activate | Interview with Howard Slater

MayDay Radio is an experiment in oral histories and sound production; it is a place to share equipment and skills; it is a platform to create new oral histories and activate existing archives, those at the MayDay Rooms but also beyond.

This page is a space for all things not yet part of a larger show and tell, projects in progress, experimental beginnings, a bit like pamphlets of sound bites, notes in a margin. If you would like to have something upload, do get in touch.

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