Asphyxia: The "Idiote", the Library Wifi and the Suppressed Safe #14 - Woodsaw and Sackbarrow

Originally commissioned in 2022 as part of Radio Art Zone's tapestry of 22-hour radio productions, this project by Daniel R. Wilson is re-presented here in episodic form. Asphyxia hacks the antagonising systems which thwart and forestall projects (its name also acknowledges the asphyxiating atmosphere of long-form radio when made by a single person). It is a damaged would-be radio documentary exploring the Narnia of restricted access material and gatekept employment.

Aspects of scuppered research continue to be explored ad nauseam in this fourteenth instalment of Asphyxia, in which the narrator yields to the drift of distractions like a carrier bag in the wind.

This episode boasts not one, but three difficulties: (1) The ongoing hum in the left-channel seemingly spreads to an audio repairperson's own left ear, (2) a fallen tree prompts consideration on the clichéd obstructiveness of those wooden timewasters, and (3) a newspaper report from over a decade ago - heavily critical of Pure Volunteering - is torn apart in still-burning righteous fury.