A Mixtape Radio #8 - The Wind and The Noise

Wednesday 19th March 2025 19:30 - 20:00 GMT

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 Annandale Galleries, Higher Ground Studios and Resonance Extra.

Field Notes

Performed at Anndandale Galleries, Sydney; in response to Thomas Thorby-Lister’s exhibition Site Paintings, made in Cowra, NSW Australia. Credits: Joe Wilson (guitar, pedals, samples, vocals) and chanelle collier (vocals, samples, pedals)

Side A - The Wind

BUN RUN 2A Malady in G. Chirping frogs, night sounds Bundanon; drone and noise in G, cassette tempo shifts; gentle vocals; swelling guitar and picking; vocal layered loops; guitar noise with octave shifts, delay, and wah; second vocals with distortion and delay; Malady in G riff; birds, delay.

Side B - The Noise

CH 6A Kites. Recorded at Chicken House, “Kites”. Dawn birds; a laundry tale from mum; drone in e minor; pedal play with wah; guitar noise with harmonics; delay; kites loop; distorted vocal and guitar lead; birds.