900 Voices was created by Zoë Irvine with Lindsay Perth and Jules Rawlinson.
What you hear here is created entirely from voice. 
The work was originally created as part of the 900th anniversary celebrations of St Giles' Cathedral in Edinburgh. It was created as a participative project involving people all over Edinburgh recording conversations on belonging and community. The hundreds of hours of recordings were presented as an installation in St Giles', activating the architecture, resounding with the thoughts, feelings and melodies of these conversations. 
The installation used a bespoke computer programme to shuffle, combine and explore what people said in different ways. Over the many hours it was live, it always served up completely new combinations.

It was presented as part of the Edinburgh International Festival in 2024. In 2025 Zoë and Jules are creating a radio version which will first broadcast on Radiophrenia in April.

https://www.900voices.org/

900 Voices EXTRACTS audio documentation

The Premorial by Jen McGregor

Produced by Birds of Paradise, in association with Perth Theatre, with EHFM as broadcast partner.

Starring Chaya Gupta as Nat and Abby McCann as Freya

Lu Kemp - Director
Niloo-Far Khan - Assistant Director
Zoe Irvine - Editor and Sound Designer
Gerda Stevenson - Dramaturg
Callum Madge - Producer

For more information please visit https://www.boptheatre.co.uk/something-new-to-say/

The Premorial

Jammed by Gabriella Sloss

Produced by Birds of Paradise, in association with Perth Theatre, with EHFM as broadcast partner.

Starring Alice Christina-Corrigan as Sasha and Jack Hunter as Andrew

Lu Kemp - Director
Niloo-Far Khan - Assistant Director
Zoe Irvine - Editor and Sound Designer
Gerda Stevenson - Dramaturg
Callum Madge - Producer

For more information please visit www.boptheatre.co.uk/something-new-to-say/

Jammed

Bronagh & the Bum Goblin by Áine King

Produced by Birds of Paradise, in association with Perth Theatre, with EHFM as broadcast partner.

Starring Helen Fox as Bronagh and Apphia Campbell as the Bum Goblin

Lu Kemp - Director
Niloo-Far Khan - Assistant Director
Zoe Irvine - Editor and Sound Designer
Gerda Stevenson - Dramaturg
Callum Madge - Producer

For more information please visit www.boptheatre.co.uk/something-new-to-say/

Bronagh & the Bum Goblin

Something to Say: three radio plays by disabled writers

Produced by Birds of Paradise, in association with Perth Theatre, with EHFM as broadcast partner.

Lu Kemp - Director
Niloo-Far Khan - Assistant Director
Zoe Irvine - Editor and Sound Designer
Gerda Stevenson - Dramaturg
Callum Madge - Producer

For more information please visit www.boptheatre.co.uk/something-new-to-say/

About Something to Say

Soundwalk composition created in collaboration with an Angus-based community group, inspired by Hospitalfield's medicinal garden and personal experiences of exploring the garden and grounds.

Commissioned by Hospitalfield and THAT (Tayside Healthcare Arts Trust).

Artist Kim Walker, invited the arts and health group to explore the relationship with Hospitalfield’s new Medicinal Garden, through looking at seasonal change, using language, images, print and through sound recording. Over eight weeks the group came together to talk, share, and look at the multiple histories, stories and sounds of the Medicinal Garden at Hospitalfield and to create an “audio walk”.

Participants worked with Kim “To develop a soundwalk composition that explores the medicinal garden at Hospitalfield, focusing on relating this to the concepts of traces and erasure within my own practice and other contemporary art practices. Discussion and activities will focus on developing an understanding of how soundwalks are developed; using deep listening practices to explore the environment; and using the medicinal garden as inspiration for the development of creative practice and related ideas."

I Don’t Need the Sound of the Radio

This sound work is the combined outcome of a series community workshops exploring sound art, sound walks, contemporary sonic art practice, concepts of Deep Listening and the composition of a soundwalk for Hospitalfield’s Physic Garden. I Don’t Need the Sound of the Radio was inspired by participants experiences within the garden and exploring the garden together. The idea of connecting to the ‘traces’ of the past through contemporary practice, and creating a new rendering informed by personal histories, old and new. For Kim, this commission sits at the intersection between an art commission and a community project, with participants shaping the artwork and influencing the final commission output.

About the artist

Kim Walker is a Scottish artist and educator based in Tayside. She works with sound, video, installation, and performance. She gained her MFA in Studio from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the recipient of the Sound Departments Trustee’s Merit Scholarship. Kim gained her BA (Hons) Time Based Art from DJCAD and holds a PgDip in Library and Information Studies from the University of Strathclyde.

Kim has exhibited her artwork widely through artist-led spaces, larger galleries, festivals, and broadcasts and has held a variety of artist in residence positions. She has extensive experience delivering creative, informal learning projects for individuals, community groups and schools across Tayside. Recent projects include Wild Escapes Eco School; ARTIST ROOMS: Young People’s Projects; The People’s Story; Reconnect; and Latent taLent with THAT and the National Gallery.

Thank you to everyone who took part.

I Don’t Need the Sound of the Radio by Kim Walker

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The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble plays challenging experimental music.

The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble are a socially engaged group of hens and human.

The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble aims to explore ideas of trans-speciesism, human/non-human relations, ecological interdependence and communicative musicality with absurdity and humour.

The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble uses sound to communicate. 

The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble uses sound and composition to interrogate and reflect on hierarchies and cultural production. 

The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble does not anthropomorphise hens, but rather brings human music into the gallinaceous language.

The Galloanserae Experimental Ensemble’s work is for hens and humans and any other creatures who like to listen to it.

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