Alternating Current: Radio Programme
Dublin Digital Radio presents: Alternating Current, a city festival to celebrate Ireland’s other music traditions. Weird, eerie, noisy, loud, lamenting...
Tomorrow Jennifer Walshe & Wobbly officially kick off Alternating Current with Morover, a specially commissioned radio work for our inaugural city festival.
As part of our radio programme for Alternating Current we will premier a new radio work each day at 15:00 GMT, and repeated again at 21:00 GMT. We are extremely excited to present these new pieces from some of our favourite composers and sound artists. Check out the programme below.
RADIOWORKS
TUESDAY OCTOBER 26
15:00 GMT & 21:00 GMT
Jennifer Walshe & Wobbly :: MOREOVER
MOREOVER surfs the detritus of 2021, ranging from synthetic datasets to our efforts to get yoga arms; Jaron Lanier on how computers are winning the Turing Test and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s concerns about the potential for AI to create racist toy bears; NFTs, a million browser tabs, metabolic compromises and off-the-shelf solutions for governing a population.
Below are the different movements from the piece:
1. Private Browsing (Terrible Role Models)
2. Alexa, Why Am I?
3. Ambient + Angry
4. Brindle Spork News
5. Yoga Arms
6. Governance Tools
7. It Makes People Confide
8. Racist Bear
9. How Do I Rotate PDF
10. Synthetic Dater
11. The Sea (Buyers Were Able)
12. Why Is No-One Talking About This YouTube With 4 Million Views?
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 27
15:00 GMT & 21:00 GMT
Rachel Ní Chuinn :: Patchwork or How to Repair a Hole
I was thinking about a few things making this, one was how Ireland has catastrophically fucked itself and how this is the first time I've felt homesick despite living abroad quite a few times before. I'm also concerned with how much easier it is to throw something out than it is to fix it. The other element that was on my mind for the structure of the piece was when I used to do my radio show Cluastuiscint, I used to put things that are alike but not connected, or extremely different but connected, beside each other and how it was one of my favourite ways of listening to music. I start with more than I need and cut things down with each repetition so rather than starting with nothing, I always feel like I'm starting with too much. So my approach to music making feels like collage or patchwork as I'm piecing things together and fixing the bits I don't like.
THURSDAY OCTOBER 28
15:00 GMT & 21:00 GMT
Reneé Helena Browne :: Rebuilding Urania (2021–ongoing)
Rebuilding Urania began with Browne’s research into Urania, a historic printed journal that focused on gender and was privately distributed and published in London from 1916-1940. Featuring re-printed articles from newspapers around the world, editorial commentary, poetry and prose, it provided readers with an alternative scientific and cultural basis of expression on androgyny and love.
Rebuilding Urania is an oral archiving project of Urania, and takes the form of multiple episodes with public presentations across radio, gallery and online contexts. The development of the project has involved Browne connecting with invited people to respond to articles from the original journal and in doing so starting to build a community and friendships around ideas in the work.
The first iteration, Rebuilding Urania: Pilot (2021) has been commissioned by Dublin Digital Radio.
Rebuilding Urania: Pilot (2021) was produced with Mason Leaver-Yap, Sharlene Bamboat and Hannah Fitz, with Malin Lewis' 'Are We' appearing courtesy OVER / AT E.P.: FOLKS' SONGS.
Different stages of Browne’s research and the development of this work have also been supported by a number of organisations: Glasgow Women’s Library, Cove Park Residencies, Project Arts Centre, and Book Works.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 29
15:00 GMT & 21:00 GMT
The Digital Druids :: How Will You Look After Me?