Name: “It Can Cause You To Believe In God” - Jamie On A Boat Called Isis by Memorial Bench
Duration: 1 min 53 s
Description: Jamie was one of the many sailors we encountered in St Helena. He travelled alone on a boat he bought with name ISIS, he understood this to be the Egyptian goddess of life and magic.

The skies are never silent.

Invisible to the naked eye, VLF, or Very Low Frequency radio waves, are the sonic equivalent to the stunning visual aurorae that illuminate the planet's poles. Caused by the interaction of solar energy with the charged part of the Earth’s atmosphere, they can only be made audible with special equipment.

This audio feature blends original recordings of VLF sounds with the voices of those who work with them, from science to sound art, King’s Cross to California.

With thanks to:
Dan Tapper, sound artist (www.magneticsignals.tumblr.com) 
Stephen McGreevy, VLF recordist (www.auroralchorus.com)
Dr Simon Foster, Imperial College London
Camley Street Natural Park

Produced by Patrick Sykes (www.patrickjsykes.com)

Sunsong

Residents of Southampton listen to community gardens via headphones and share their experiences. For some, sounds trigger memories; field recordings from across the globe illustrate their stories.

Workshops delivered in collaboration with movement artist Gabriel Galvez, for the Voices in the Gallery project in partnership with John Hansard Gallery.

Listening Memories

First recording released of my instrument The Ootwo - a 16 stringed rotating harp played with bow- Invented and made in 2018 but only now have practiced enough to want to release

OOTWO 1

'Handsworth Songs' is a seminal film by the Black Audio Film Collective, produced in 1986. The film deals with the racially motivated riots of the 1980s in London and Birmingham alongside archival footage of early Windrush migrants from the West Indies arriving in the UK.

'slow emergency siren, ongoing' is a project that aims to make this film more, and differently, accessible through the production of an audio description track and creative captions. In 2022, I was commissioned by Dr Sarah Hayden, working with LUX, to produce an audio documentary that captures the complex process of making artists' moving image work accessible.

'[voices surface]: An audio-documentary about accessing Handsworth Songs' centres the process of audio describer Elaine Lillian Joseph speaking over the film’s soundtrack, looking for words to describe the rich imagery for visually impaired and blind audiences. It includes interviews with Trevor Mathison (founder member of Black Audio Film Collective responsible for 'Handsworth Songs’ distinctive soundtrack) and captioner Anita Wolska-Kaslow of Care-fuffle (a disabled-led experimental film and art working group) about capturing the film’s emotive sound in text. 

The audio documentary was launched at MAC Birmingham and released on the LUX website in June 2023, with spacial and colour captions by Care-fuffle.

[voices surface]: Accessing Handsworth Songs

Leonard Cohen's muse when he turned from poetry to song-writing was a beautiful Norwegian woman immortalised in the song So Long, Marianne - this is their story, based on the award-winning programmes made for NRK by Kari Hesthamar. 

"...both of the interviews had a dreamy quality and listening to the two voices of Leonard and Marianne all these years later made for a programme you want to hear again and again." - BBC Radio 4 Pick of the Week 3.8.08 

"...a melancholic and incredibly moving memoir."  - Radio Times

First broadcast on 2nd August 2008 BBC Radio 4
Produced by Alan Hall

Leonard And Marianne

Music: Freesoundhttps://freesound.org/people/CarlosCarty/sounds/463037/

resident, affordable housing for artists development

clip from audio version of The Weight, personal film docu project from many yrs ago

clip from audio version of The Weight, old personal film docu project

On arriving to St Helena, Wolfgang wonders how the island receives its fuel, and recalls a past solution from his travels

Wolfgang Memory of a Pacific Island Refuelling

Jamie was one of the many sailors we encountered in St Helena. He travelled alone on a boat he bought with name ISIS, he understood this to be the Egyptian goddess of life and magic.

“It Can Cause You To Believe In God” - Jamie On A Boat Called Isis

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