A Mixtape Radio #5 - Voices and Beasts
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 The Renshaws; Higher Ground Studios.
Field Notes
A X-Mas Party at The Renshaws 2022 - Cocktails and impromptu solo exhibition
Side A - Voices
RENSHAWS_2A: Click and crackle of tape deck, train/storm T Renshaws Gallery; recording inside the gallery residency apartment. fade in chords. chanelle vocal. Cockatoos. drone slow down. Storm white noise and museum crowd and oliver on studio workshop timber router. Train running behind gallery with guitar drone and feedback, bird calls and distorted voice. Guitar hook
Side B - Beasts
RENSHAWS_3B: Renshaws Residency Fortitude Valley Brisbane.Bundanon birds. Kookaburras. Guitar high notes. Harmonics. Joe guitar Em slide D, C riff and crickets and lead. Crickets and museum crowd. Train, bird, train, bird. Triangle car pool laughter. 10:00 guitar fade in drones and samples, kookaburra tape slow down.