Sounding Sites: The Takeover
Friday 19 November 2021, 1-8pm
www.threadsradio.com
Tune in to Threads Radio for a very special episode of Sounding Sites – a 7-hour takeover of the airwaves, featuring artists and collaborators we’ve with over the course of the 2021 BILLBOARD project. The audio segment features conversations, musical compositions, readings, and a mix assembled by writer and DJ Eleanor Bickers.
00:00:00 - Intro
00:06:00 - Reading by ear (Part 1): Charting the sensory journey of our aural connection to the visual medium
w/ Eleanor Bickers
Essay & DJ Set reflecting on our relationship to sound as frequency, noise and harmony through the lens of a multi-sensory awareness.
00:31:00 - Zombie Spectrogram
w/ Cypher BILLBOARD and László von Dohnányi
A discussion between László von Dohnányi and Cypher BILLBOARD’s Amba Sayal-Bennett, Holly Graham, and Erin Hughes, exploring notions of technological transformation, and featuring audio interpretations of László’s Bounds Green billboard artwork created using text recognition software. This is the first of a series of five artist-commissioned radio shows developed for Threads Radio as part of Cypher BILLBOARD’s 2021 programme.
01:40:00 - 15.26.40 - 16.02.06
w/ Ed Compson + Arieh Frosh, Bounds Green School, Holly Graham + LEYLAH
The second of a series of five artist-commissioned radio shows developed for Threads Radio as part of Cypher BILLBOARD’s 2021 programme. This episode is brought to you by artists Ed Compson and Arieh Frosh, as an extension of their billboard poster collaboration with Year 4 students at Bounds Green School. It features a selection of audio pieces developed in response to wind data, alongside music that has influenced the project, and a bonus track by musician LEYLAH.
02:50:00 - Mapping the Hostile Environment in the Arts - a Roundtable Discussion
w/ Siddhi Gupta + Kat McGrath, Bakhtawer Haider of Sold Out Publishing, Syahadah Shahril of Pause or Pay UK, + Morgan Markey
The third in a series of five artist-commissioned radio shows developed for Threads Radio as part of Cypher BILLBOARD’s 2021 programme. This episode is brought to you by artists and designers Siddhi Gupta and Kat McGrath, as an extension of their billboard poster artwork in Bounds Green. It features a conversation with a cross-section of international arts students – Bakhtawer Haider of Sold Out Publishing, Syahadah Shahril of Pause or Pay UK, and Morgan Markey – discussing the Hostile Environment and its impact on their experiences of Higher Arts Education
04:00:00 - A Sonic Testimony
w/ Languid Hands
The fourth in a series of five artist-commissioned radio shows developed for Threads Radio as part of Cypher BILLBOARD’s 2021 programme. This episode is brought to you by artists and curatorial collaborators Languid Hands, as an extension of their billboard poster artwork in Bounds Green. A Sonic Testimony is the first exclusively aural iteration of Languid Hands' ongoing project Towards A Black Testimony, bringing together text, sound and music from the expansive archive of Black culture and resistance. Towards A Black Testimony is an artistic and curatorial project which examines the extent to which Black Testimony is obscured, ignored and undermined and explores the complexities of truth, empathy, justice, the law, life and death for the Black Mass.
05:04:00 - X
w/ Ryan O’Toole Collett, Ismena Collective, Alex Saxton, John Sweeney, and Kate Webster
The final in a series of five artist-commissioned radio shows developed for Threads Radio as part of Cypher BILLBOARD’s 2021 programme. This episode is brought to you by artists Ryan O’Toole Collett and collaborators, as an extension of his billboard poster artwork in Bounds Green ‘Read a bit, it will be good for you x’. The audio segment explores the relationship between reading and listening.
05:57:00 - Reading by ear (Part 2)
w/ Eleanor Bickers
DJ Set reflecting on our relationship to sound as frequency, noise and harmony through the lens of a multi-sensory awareness.
07:00:00 - End
