SYNOPSIS
SHARKFISHING IN BLYTH
Sound Work for LIVESTOCK.
An audio collage of spoken word and music.
Bringing together poetry, aphorisms, sketches and contemplations.
The programmme structure is divided into four
distinct categories:
radio conversation
eartiques
spare time
it’s a cut up
radio conversation
A spoof vox pop programme concerning the recent sightings of a Great
White Shark in Blyth. Included is a handy tip to beat the Shark, punch it
in the nose.
eartiques
The philosopher Ludwig Wittengstein commented once how stories are like coats;
hand-me-down tales that we wear and give away.
Eartiques are a combination of eavesdroppings, non-jokes, aphorisms and absurd
tales.
spare time
Originally titled “notes from a mental breakdown” these short
haiku’s or poems/statements envelope the tragic consequences of having
too much spare time that your mind reflects in on itself and creates imaginary
circumstances.
it’s a cut up
Cut-up’s were invented by Brion Gysin and practiced by William Burroughs,
where they would collage together text from newspapers, thus creating a ‘hybrid’
article.
Take one talking book (or as many as possible) and cut up the sentences/ word/
grammar to reveal a humorous slant on the content of text and it’s identitiy,
shifting contexts we are able to hear the unconscious book.
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