written by Ross Sutherland
voice by Matthew Smith
music by Carl Brown
A track from Mercy's audioguide for the city of Liverpool - produced as part of the Liverpool Biennial.You can download the whole 22-tracks from our website, with a map.
Or you can look at our special widget!
http://bit.ly/mercyguide

Mercyguide // BECAUSE #5  Idiot Clock by Janosh Cragg

Mercyguide // BECAUSE #6  Backup Liverpool by   Markus Smith

this show featured Anat Ben David, Nathan Jones, Ross Sutherland and Steven Fowler & Ben Morris

work was commissioned by Mercy
31st May 2012, at Cafe Oto, LDN

"we are far from grasping the full complexities of the phenomenon of the so-called 'voices from beyond'... rules differ radically from those of ordinary speech"
 K. Raudive

videos of these pieces are available to view on Mercy's Vimeo page
https://vimeo.com/mercyuk




Steven sample

Ross is using a video loop of the Fresh Prince of Bellair to commune with the spirit of his grandad


this show featured Anat Ben David, Nathan Jones, Ross Sutherland and Steven Fowler & Ben Morris

work was commissioned by Mercy
31st May 2012, at Cafe Oto, LDN

"we are far from grasping the full complexities of the phenomenon of the so-called 'voices from beyond'... rules differ radically from those of ordinary speech"
 K. Raudive

videos of these pieces are available to view on Mercy's Vimeo page
https://vimeo.com/mercyuk




Ross sutherland _sample_ "Stand by for Tape Backup"

Anat ben david last song

Nathan sample

a sample of our parasites series which will be part of the Mercy podcasts hosted by Vanessa Bartlett:
http://mercyonline.co.uk/who-we-are/what-we-are-up-to/article/new-podcasts-for-autumn-20121

we are soliciting writing submissions for this series:
http://mercyonline.co.uk/who-we-are/what-we-are-up-to/article/call-for-entries

[this sample written by Chris Warren, spoken by Eddie Bolger. With Audio by Sid Volter http://www.sidvolter.co.uk/]


PARASITE #1

Audio contributions to this podcast courtesy of
Scanner: http://www.scannerdot.com
Joe Banks http://rorschachaudio.wordpress.com/
Erik Bünger http://www.erikbunger.com/
Steven Fowler and Ben Morris http://vimeo.com/44804238
Nathan Walker http://www.nathan-walker.co.uk/about.html
James Wilkes http://www.voiceworks.org.uk/1011/poets1011/james_wilkes_1.html
Hannah Silva http://www.hannahsilva.co.uk/

Today's immediate suggestion was brought to you by Oliver Braid of the Ellie & Oliver Show oliverbraid.tumblr.com

The parasite in this episode was written by Theodoros Chiotis with voice over by Lee Ward and sound by Sid Volter www.sidvolter.co.uk

Theodoros Chiotis’ work has appeared in Adventures in Form, Catechism, Tears in the Fence, CANCAN, Otoliths, Bad Robot Poetry et al.

The song that we played today was Celine, Yola Fatoush http://www.yolafatoush.co.uk/

12 October Podcast: EVP weekender, Perception and the Suspension of Disbelief

This week's Mercy podcast is a Ryanair survival guide for frequent flyers, mixed by guest host Andrew Ellis.
Andrew Ellis, a.k.a. Samizdat, has acted as a conduit for new and interesting music in Liverpool for the past seven years. Andrew's most recent project was working in collaboration with Liverpool Biennial to produce A Crimson Grail for 100 guitars and 8 basses at Liverpool Cathedral

introduced by Vanessa Bartlett

to contact the show tweet @vanessabartlett
or drop us an email on info@mercyonline.co.uk

19 October Podcast: Frequent Flyer

@vanessabartlett talks to artists, curators and academics to track the complex historical relationship between art and television. A special edition celebrating FACT's programme for Liverpool Biennial 2012 http://www.fact.co.uk/

With contributions from 

Colin Perry Art Writer and Critic http://www.preromanbritain.com/colin/
Judith Barry Artist and Writer http://www.rosamundfelsen.com/barry/index.php
Omar Kholeif curator at FACT http://www.fact.co.uk/people/staff/omar-kholeif/
John Hill and James Early of Lucky PDF http://luckypdf.com/

Today's immediate suggestion was brought to you by Oliver Braid of the Ellie & Oliver Show oliverbraid.tumblr.com

The parasitic story in this episode was written by Steve Dodd with voice over by Lee Ward and sound by Sid Volter www.sidvolter.co.uk

Steve Dodd writes lachrymose fiction for no one to read.

 

26 October podcast: Random Acts, Artist Interventions into Broadcast

Todays's edition is guest hosted by FormContent, whose exhibition opens at The Royal Standard the next week  http://formcontent.org/  http://www.trs2.co.uk 

It is introduced by Vanessa Bartlett @vanessabartlett 

to contact the show tweet @vanessabartlett 
or drop us an email on info@mercyonline.co.uk

As the Biennial enters its final few weeks Form Content will be using the last show of The Royal Standard's Service Provider programme to ask, what happens when all characters leave the stage? 

FormContent is a non-profit organisation founded in 2007 by Francesco Pedraglio, Caterina Riva and Pieternel Vermoortel in London’s East End. After five years of intense work with more than 35 exhibition inside and outside the UK, after a rich program of performances, events, publications and commissions, FormContent decided to close its space and work on a 15-month nomadic project titled It’s moving from I to It.

2nd November Podcast: Its Moving from I to It

In this week's edition Mercy's long time pal and collaborator Ross Sutherland responds to the Biennial theme of hospitality, by examining advertising as an uninvited guest into our personal and domestic lives. http://www.rosssutherland.co.uk/main/

Introduced by Vanessa Bartlett

to contact the show tweet @vanessabartlett 
or drop us an email on info@mercyonline.co.uk

Ross Sutherland was born in Edinburgh in 1979. He was included in The Times’s list of Top Ten Literary Stars of 2008. He has three collections of poetry: Things To Do Before You Leave Town (2009), Twelve Nudes (2010), and Hyakuretsu Kyaku (2011), all published by Penned In The Margins. Ross is also a member of the poetry collective Aisle16 with whom he runs Homework, an evening of literary miscellany in East London. 

9th November podcast: Ross Sutherland on Advertising in the Year 2042

Guest hosted by Tamarin Norwood and introduced by Vanessa Bartlett

to contact the show tweet @vanessabartlett 
or drop us an email on info@mercyonline.co.uk


Tamarin Norwood is an artist and writer interested in the acts of writing, drawing and speaking, and in the residues these acts leave behind. This week she has been collecting various spoken descriptions of artworks, and thinking about how these descriptions relate to the artworks they describe. In this podcast she imagines the descriptions as unexpected guests being hosted by the artworks themselves, and thinks about how these ‘guests’ —or even parasites—might avoid making themselves unwelcome. It’s a podcast about the ethics and prosthetics of description: about the risk of exhausting objects in language, and about using speech as a material robust enough to host new objects of its own.

http://www.tamarinnorwood.co.uk

16th November Podcast: Parasites and Hosts in Art Writing

Looking ahead to the final event of Liverpool Biennial: Changing the World From Here, Vanessa Bartlett interviews Biennial Director Sally Tallant and other local experts to consider what the future might hold for the festival 

With contributions from Sally Tallant of Liverpool Biennial http://www.biennial.com/
Kenn Taylor Liverpool based Writer and Journalist http://kenntaylor.wordpress.com/
Fred Brown Anfield resident and member of 2up2down http://www.2up2down.org.uk/

and Music from Octagon Court http://www.octagoncourtmusic.com/

Parasites in this episode written by Thomas Gorton and Annie Kerr with voice over by Matthew Smith and sound by Sid Volter www.sidvolter.co.uk

Thomas Gorton plays notes and makes words in a band called Outfit, also available for bespoke love letters and/or 'arty' divorce settlements. Cash only.

Annie Kerr is a writer and musician who grew up in Liverpool and now lives in Brighton.

to contact the show tweet @vanessabartlett 
or drop us an email on info@mercyonline.co.uk

23 November podcast: Changing The World From Here

The Quest - for deserted streets audio sample

The Quest - for deserted streets audio sample #2

Mercy is a design agency &amp; literature and arts collective, with offices in London and Liverpool.

Our current performance programme is titled Electronic Voice Phenomena, curated by Nathan Jones - who also manages this Soundcloud.

We are working with artists including Mark Greenwood, Anat Ben David, Steven Fowler, Ross Sutherland, Sam Meech, Tom Smith, Laurence Payot.
Over the last few years we have also worked closely with musicians, including Forest Swords, Wave Machines, Dustin Wong, Ex-Easter Island Head and Apatt
With this kind of work we tend to work closely with Liverpool-based partners like Samizdat and the Hive Collective.

Our podcast will relaunch in April, hosted by Vanessa Bartlett

In 2011 we also partnered with Soundcloud to deliver a pilot project imbedding fake art reviews into a Google map.  you can see that here: 
http://mercyonline.co.uk/who-we-are/what-we-are-up-to/article/audioguide-interactive-map


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