Am I Here? for eight-channels of recorded audio and live performer(s).   In Am I Here? Cathy Lane takes the listener on a journey through time and space – from sounds of the stone carvers of Mahabalipuram, the Bangalore laundry ghats and the temple of Madurai in South India through the glacial lagoons of Iceland to birdsong in a domestic garden in inner London stopping off in Chile, Italy, Norway and Scotland along the way to question the nature of “here” and “now”. Her live speaking voice is mixed in with recordings of the places that she has recorded in in the past as well as her recorded voice from other times and places. 
‘Am I Here? gently questions the nature of a recording and the various degrees of embodied or disembodied presence in a recorded artefact.  It challenges the commonly held belief that field recordings are an ‘objective document’ and reasserts the inability of the recordist to escape their own physical and subjective presence.
This version of Am I here? was made for RADIO OUTSIDE: A PHONOGRAPHY OF THE WORLD  a project by Dramaturgie Sonore au theatre which toured Quebec Province, Canada and broadcast online in October 2017. http://radiodehors.dramaturgiesonore.com/le-projet/

Am I Here? (RADIO OUTSIDE) Stereo Extract 1

i love to singa about the moona and the juna and the springa

La Pesch does radio, acoustic narratives, sound and voice art.
She chooses a subjective approach, sets in scene encounters and creates contact points in dialogue. She relies on techniques of collage and a structure that reflects the core message. Her focus are boundaries, transcending and blurring them, the confrontation and meeting of different horizons of experience in a given environment.

Cathy Lane is a composer, sound artist and academic. Some of her  work uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationship with each other and the multiverse.

Journalist. University lecturer. Not-so-early tech adopter. Curious. Very much so. Portuguese. Born in Mozambique. Into new forms & formats for journalism and new sound formats.

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Celebrating the eclecticism of electronic artists who identify as female. A personal journey, ever unfolding and never ending. Yes, there is a lot of music...

Am I Here? (RADIO OUTSIDE) Stereo Extract 1

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