A Mixtape Radio #2 - Kinship for a Subjective Body

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.

Supported by Higher Ground Studios, Artspace, Create NSW and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes - “Let Me Stop You Right There”

Side A - Kinship

Mixtape 9: Electronic high notes to museum recording and fading in chords on guitar; max delay and screaming children distorted from the vinyl record; G major riff with applause on vocal pedal loop and storytelling of washing past; shaking drones with ringtone from missed call message bank; indistinguishable talking in the studio and use of power tools; recording of bus engine over museum crowds; handling of cassette tapes and players; music sample; A minor and F major riff on guitar with offset vocal loop.

Side B - Body

Mixtape 9: Screams in an institution and guitar noises; Lp needle taps with heavy distortion and delay; creaking guitar handling through high compression; feedback and chords and scales; offset vocal loop over distorted museum; guitar in G major and indistinguishable voices; birds and language lessons; phone calls and studio visits; artist borscht picnic chats; feedback on amp; Bundanon morning birds and crickets with museum sounds and guitar.