A Mixtape Radio #10 - Departs and Likely to Return

A monthly programme which blends textured audio from cassette recordings by Joe Wilson & Chanelle Collier with tonal imagery by Bruna Volpi and Jake Terrey. Sound engineering by Ollie Brown.

Joe and Chanelle’s audio recordings encompass ambient sounds, conversation, experimental composition and improvised instrumental response. Cassette drones, loop pedals, voice and guitar are used to echo, mimic or bend over bird calls, thunderstorms, night sounds, indistinguishable chatter, museum reverberations and urban movement. These moments captured to tape are presented in two halves as an A-side/B-side format.

Enriched by visual counterpoints for each episode, Bruna’s critical eye forms an ambiguous tonal narrative from Jake's method of stumbling into excellence. Mountain, valley, glacier, and urban horizon are presented in stereo format, to parallel the A-side/B-side format.

This program has been made on the stolen lands of the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, we pay respect to the Elders both past and present.

Project lead and sound by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier. Creative direction by Bruna Volpi. Photography by Jake Terrey.

This episode is supported by Higher Ground Studios and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes

Recorded at Potter’s Studio (Couch House), Kanimbla Valley, for Radio Jam with Bruna Volpi, Chanelle Collier, Jake Terrey, and Joe Wilson.

Side A – Departs

Everything is ok opening night crowd at verge gallery + morning birds at couch house.

Side B – Returns

Field recording of bees in a tree and cicadas