Changes Again
Episode am8 | Published 07/11/2017 10:24
When we talk about the difference between hearing and listening, or between looking and seeing, what is that actual difference? Is it about recognising, and matching something with what you already know, or starting clean and building a picture?
Is it possible to move from recognition to reimagining?
Meet Roger. He lives his life surrounded by a beguiling sprawl of shapes and patterns; an assemblage of repetitions and broken pieces. For this story, he explores the internal resonances of these objects – with the help of contact microphones and various agitators. How does Roger’s unseen world resonate with us?
Voice: Roger McKindley, Oscar Linden, Elijah Linden, Joshua Greenwood
Illustration: Jon Tjhia
Sound design: Jon Tjhia
Changes Again is a co-commission of Paper Radio (Jessie Borrelle and Jon Tjhia) and RN’s Creative Audio Unit (RIP), and was produced with the support of Creative Victoria’s VicArts program and the Ian Reed Foundation. Special thanks to Roger McKindley. In the same way that Roger takes his materials and reassembles them over and over, all sounds in this episode (apart from speech) were constructed and recomposed entirely from recordings of Roger manipulating and striking his collected items, and from recordings of his voice. Changes Again first aired in January 2017 on Soundproof, a unique beacon of open-ended radio beauty (and yet – regular home to Paper Radio stories), now no longer.
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