A Mixtape Radio #6 - A Lover’s Cheekbone

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 Artist Profile, Higher Ground Studios and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes

Feat. FAREWELL TOUR recorded at Chicken House. Farewell Tour is a new rock band project by Joe Wilson and Chanelle Collier developed throughout 2023 and 2024, mixing field recordings and long form psych rock, with Joe on guitar and pedals and Chanelle on vocals and samples.

Side A - Lover’s Cheekbone

“I saw you standing. Long days long nights waiting on the stage and those hallowed lights. Screaming to the wild and dancing with the wind, just as it starts, it always ends. This could be the last time I see you, this will be the last time I see you. I saw you standing through the window of your apartment, saw you standing naked in your beautiful garment. Garment, yeah! All this trouble and the devil we have”. (distortion/delay)

Side B - In Defence of Submission

Notes on a Sound Art Practice: MIXTAPES

Sound is a time based medium and is therefore about time. A site specific music that incorporates field recordings. Each sound has a location in time and space, that repeats again in a kind of nietzschean time travel. Playback, delay, and looping are the eternal recurrence. It is this life, now, living in terminal diagnosis. Living with an acute awareness of the limitation in the availability of time. The here and now is filled with the presence of time and mortality, ART and DEATH.

Sound art in the medium of mixtapes: a practice combining textiles and sound. It is for those wanderers willing to make a sidestep to embrace resistance, agency, or refusal. An intentional pause for creative procrastination inspired by a Situationist spirit. It is anxiety and method, irreverent of its resources. This practice, only a labor for love, ingests, internalises, and releases. This is mechanical reproduction via cassette, which is an un-living agent, a prop, and a gift. Through cables sprawling to construct a signal chain where authority resides in the binary input and output solution. Companions consenting to a noise domain, Heavier Than A Death In The Family. A sound ambition that finds the silent friendship of grief. A Farewell Tour rock band project. – Joe Wilson