Year: 2021
Type: electro-acoustic, site-specific
Bio-Coill, in collaboration with poet/singer Molly May O'Leary is a study into the links and tensions between the 'artificial' and the 'natural' in Ireland's woodlands.
Taking the form of a site-specific performance among the trees at Ticknock forest and recorded for broadcast on As if radio.
As if radio.. is a collaborative radio space created in response to the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow on 31 October – 12 November 2021.
Based on ideas and practices of ecological radio and acts of listening, this long-form broadcast will bring together contributions by climate activists and artists, both those gathering around the Conference in Glasgow and those individuals and communities around the world seeking to bring their voices to the collective demands for climate justice. Situated in Glasgow for the duration, As if radio (Air) will provide a platform for the voices less often heard at such events, interweaving these with ecological sounds combining live coverage and commentary from the COP and widening the soundfield to areas out with the official event. We anticipate a rich listening experience combining environmental streams from the Acoustic Commons network with a mix of reportage, radiophonic works, critical perspectives and environmental sounds, sonic interventions and untold stories of the climate crisis.