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

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.

Am I Here? (RADIO OUTSIDE) Stereo Extract 1

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