Guilt: How does guilt feel, and where do we feel it? To get into the mind, we journey through the body, peering at ourselves through the lens of phenomenological psychology. Our starting point is the lived experience. In this radiophonic production, real life narratives are blended with neuroscience, bioethics, philosophy and field recording. 

Speakers include (in order of appearance):

Zoe Boden - Phenomenological psychology PhD candidate, Birkbek College, University of London. - on 'everyday male guilt'. 
Prof Virginia Eatough - Phenomenological psychologist, Birkbek College, University of London. 
Richard Butchins - documentary film maker - speaking on Scrupulosity. 
Jeremy Keenan - 'why they should feel guilty' narratives. 
Justyna Burzynska - reading Sartre. 
Anonymous scientist - speaking on vivisection for medical research. 
Dr Quinton Deeley * - Research Psychiatrist at Brain Maturation Unit, Institute of Psychiatry- on Psychopathy.
Also included are other anonamous voices, including field recordings - some from the Creative Commons licencesd Free Sound Project

Produced by Umia Kukathasan. 

This piece was originally broadcast on Resonance FM's Clear Spot, 4th May 2011.


Guilt . (A radio production) . Collected recollections, no narrator.

Metal Milk

Rorschach Test

DriNk cake

My starting point was a recording of the voice of William Boroughs describing the principle of audio cut-up technique, his voice distorted beyond recognition. To this I added field recording of a London street preacher from Africa, a cat screaming in the night and Srilankan children playing at the beach, casually code-switching as they giggle and play.

Code- Switch Cut - Up

Messy layers of digitally processed voice and field recordings from Newhaven Fort's underground tunnels. Repetition and complex changing patterns emerge subtly as wordless vocal tracks overlap, building a tension that never really peaks but finally fades.
The original recordings were made at Jez Riley French's field recording workshop with Lost Property at Newhaven Fort.

First She Ate Her Words

Harmonica harmonies: chopped, stretched, phased and layered

Radio Library

Slow Mouth feat. MisterRae

Cutting up sounds, chewing, spitting out ear sized chunks.

field recordings      +     interviews    +     found sounds     +     homemade metal & rubber instruments      +     FX

Cleaver Boi