Inhale / Exhale

Eädyth - Inhale / Exhale

Fresh On The Net Fresh Fave 

Included in Tom Robinson's BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape  

"Killer groove" Tom Robinson - via Twitter 8th April 2022

"It's so rare for UK musicians to convincingly reproduce those loose, effortless kind of grooves pioneered in New Orleans, but I have to say this irresistible jam - Parasite Lost - pulls it off without breaking a sweat."  Tom Robinson on air BBC Radio 6 Music Mixtape, 18th April 2022

"The latest offering from the amazing Junkyard of Silenced Poets is the wonderfully titled Parasite Lost. It is essentially a piece of mind-spinning but also highly satisfying Dub mixing it with chords that are partly derived from Jazz and partly from the kind of harmonic language I would often associate with contemporary classical (elements of whole tone and similarly configured chords) although the feel is nothing like either. I hear distant echoes of early Gang of Four and pre-Sweetest Girl Scritti going on, perhaps alongside some of the experimental Ruts B-sides [and subsequent Ruts DC moments] but the sounds here are much more contemporary, much less scratchy and have an irresistible resonance. Captivating, cool and confidently individual." -- Neil March - Trust The Doc No. 66

"Parasite Lost is a kooky rock dub reggae jam like the soundtrack to a suspense scene in a 70s cop show" -- Kerry JK - FOTN Fresh Fave review

music composed & performed by Junkyard of Silenced Poets - copyright & all rights reserved

Parasite Lost

Early morning, Tuscan Hills

Quench The Spirit

An orchestral piece with singing fish and hydrophone recordings of me singing and playing metal instruments as heard underwater

Katherine Betteridge's Album

Turas

‘The spoken word is always an event, a movement in time, completely lacking in the thing-like repose of the written or printed word.’     (‘Orality and Literacy, The Technologising of the Word’, Ong, 2005) 

fragmanin is a two-channel Audio Essay using as raw material voices discussing digital literature in order to create a sound work which explores the writing process through listening and the music-like rhythms of speech.  

Drawing on relationships between spoken, written and written-to-be-read-aloud language this experimental work was triggered by the call-out, and presented at the 4th Biennial Performance Philosophy Conference 2019, held in Amsterdam, Netherlands.  Working with the overall theme of Intoxication, the work plays with the collision of writing and live performance.  Using original recordings of academic lectures, the work twists how information is presented and experienced, emphasising how considered and constructed language on the page/screen becomes ‘something else’ when shifted from its repository.  Words and their context are de-familiarised and reconfigured to leave logocentrism behind, offering a fresh opportunity to listen, experience, reflect, and wonder.

fragmanin

a site-sensitive eight-channel audio installation 

The culmination of Leona’s residency at the Museum of Bath at Work, Somerset, ‘Born For It’ is a two-hour work created from samples from the oral history archives and sounds contained in the building itself.   Sound is acknowledged as proof of the creativity inherent in human labour, both paid and unpaid, as work and as leisure, and also as evidence of effort within a particular hardware shop, a pop factory and associated industrial workshops.  However, not just artefacts are held within the Museum’s walls.  There are memories, associations, relationships, dissonances, connections and disconnects.  ‘Born For It’ is a work that borrows from what’s around it, mingling tangible and intangible, so that everyone can hear something of themselves, and perhaps hear it differently.

The eight-channel work was created for the main gallery in the Museum, previously a Real Tennis court, turning it into an immersive listening space.  Twenty voices twist and turn through roles and times from late 1800s to 1980s.  The Museum’s sounds blend with each other, blend with the voices, a reminder that we are all born for work in a world that is constantly in flux, with the potential for transformation, connectedness and collaboration.

Time refolds when listening to archive recordings, and the listener is placed in the moment of decades ago as people speak with no expectation of being interrupted, talked over, silenced; listening becomes dominant.  Audio histories bring distant events close because of the manner of speaking.  Individual nuances of accent and expression communicate what words alone cannot.  What is heard is embodied sound as vital and unique individuals lean forward into fluency, disappear momentarily into themselves, grapple for words that can never fully describe, allowing the listener a relationship with something much more hidden and profound than information giving.  Space is left for Imagination, a chance to create enriched worlds, forming relationships with people, places and situations never personally experienced.  Placing vocalising in a space where it’s unexpected uncovers another realm, one of echoes ofechoesof echoes… Individualised meaning emerges from always-fluid sounds montaged onto the consciousness of the listener.  

This extract is part of the 2-hour work, condensed into two channels.  The full work played on a loop throughout the Museum’s opening hours for a two week presentation.

Born For It (extract)

Work-in-progress, unmixed.

This is a song written for the fossil fuel Divestment movement, encouraging people to move their personal money out of banks that fund the fossil fuel industry.

It was originally envisioned to accompany a video with a child's train set moving through a paper landscape showing deforestation and the ravages of industry.

There is a third section (slow tempo, spoken call and response) and coda (harmony chords) yet to be recorded, plus additional train sound effects and textures.

Move Your Money - work-in-progress

A draft for a song, going to work it up into something...

Sometimes when you've finished recording, and you go to have one more little go, the idea you've been looking for emerges.

Just thought I'd have one more go...

© All Rights Reserved, 2019 Teifi

Just Thought - idea improv

Broken Dreams

TeiFi - “Rude Grooves and Smooth Loops” - a chameleon funny, bawdy, Welsh-English rap, soulful vocals, lush harmonies, and a bit of dance thrown in. Singing about bodies, death, motherhood, nature, and colonialism; she has a passion for languages and for Cymru. Composing and producing and her music using loop station, vocal beats, nature sounds and dog noises.

Just Thought - idea improv

TeiFi

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