Digital Collaboration:

Creating the podcast

April 2020

Sonia and I are struggling because we work differently but we are not struggling when suddenly we connect through music. Found sounds, hers a birdsong when she was away on holiday. Mine, water, she also says water. Both of us love the sea. Both of us are good on our own but need information differently. I send her my voice. She creates and enhances, and I narrate and navigate the fragments, and we crescendo the work with her song that seemingly sums up Lockdown.

Both Sonia and I knew we wanted to create an abstract podcast and wanted our audience to pay attention differently.

Mirroring Contrasts.

To give them this different experience we decided to collaborate as reflective as chalk and cheese, night and day and mirror experience, sound and song.

This is a piece, “Hold On” where very subtly, the meaning of holding on on the telephone changes to different meanings all within the use of mirroring and reflecting back and fourth to each other.

Journeying to the Rough Draft of Podcast.

Journeying is a tool I use due to my synaesthesia experience where I transport people via conversation deep into my body in different rooms or locations, across vast territories and plains to new experiences with them.

Responding through painting.

I also paint and thus created paintings to respond to each journey I created for each staff member.

I edit the soundscapes as if sewing the fragments of sound together. It felt very physical and this might be down to me being a 16mm filmmaker and the process of splicing and sticking and creating a visual soundscape. I miss the physicality involved in creating the sound and wish I could be more tactile.

Paintings I painted in response to songs

L-R per row, Holding On Sonia, And trees and green Carien, Nirvana it’s quiet it can be very quiet Tom, I like the sound of the rain Joy, the three below are in response to Louis “ it’s like the wind, the way it moves.”