Open to all UAL students and staff to join. Tuesdays 5.30pm–7.00 pm.
Mixing conversations and live, interactive parlour games - plus bringing in university power players to talk shop and to be open for engagement. It’s a radio programme that takes an unpolished approach, creating an alternative space using recording and live involvement both in-person and online through collective games, call-ins and voice notes.
The 12-week programme seeks to explore the tensions that exist within the university: e.g. individual/collective; exclusivity/inclusivity; home student/international. Can the university ever function as a collective in its current format? Can a university that sells itself on exclusivity ever be totally inclusive? How can, say, the anarchical spirit of a Vivienne Westwood be embodied?
How to participate
Tuesdays 5.30pm-7pm
Join us in-person on The Street at CSM
OR listen live and call-in
Follow @die_on_air
We aim to move existing infrastructures for dialogue beyond their current reach, magically transmitting through walls using sonic waves that carry poetry and open conversation. A number of special guests will feature over the coming weeks, dedicated to a particular element of D.I.E.
The unpredictability of the Surrealist techniques explored on the show is key to letting the radio programmes delve into areas that can often appear difficult for an institution. In the game of Exquisite Corpse, each individual submits a piece – but when unfolded, a collective picture story is revealed.
Episode Archive
This show is produced and supported by the Changemaker programme and recognizes that the content is led and determined all by us as students and UAL employees happening live and not by a particular course or department.
Episode – Echo
Exploring the world of Echo Verse with UAL's Many Languages Poetry Club and UEA's Creative Writing Society through conversation, stories, music and collaborative poetry.
AUDIO APPENDIX
- The story of Echo in Ancient Greek Mythology, told by Karen Harris. Karen is an Intercultural Communications Trainer/ Language Development Tutor at UAL and leads UAL's Many Languages Poetry Club.
- Exploring Echo Verse with ‘Gentle Echo on Woman’ by Jonathan Swift
- Student work: Collaborative Poetry
- Mindscapes by Laura Erviti Estruch and Eva Brá Barkardóttir
- Listen to you Through your Eyes by Francesca Barizza Esmeralda Momferratou Himarni Moonasinghe Marine One
- Open Mic: live poetry readings from UEA's Creative Writing Society.
- Outro music: I Hope You Die by Molly Nilson
Episode – Exquisite Corpse
Our very first and most simple way of experimenting sonically with the Surrealist game of Consequence. For this episode we layered two audio journeys – one from Stroud and one from Paris – to give our Exquisite Corpse a new, imaginary location.
AUDIO APPENDIX
- A 35-minute walk upstream between Old Hills and Strawberry Banks in the Stroud Valleys, Gloucestershire.
- A 35-minute Parisian commute from the 19th arrondissement, heading northeast to Les Buttes Chaumants.
Episode – Echo Echo
Carrying on from Episode 1, we reflect on echo and deviate into the world of glitch. A sonic tool that can build resonance and even hypnotise its audience, echo and its use is examined across pop culture – from music and soap operas to fairy tales and films.
AUDIO APPENDIX
- Intro and Outro music: Echo and the Bunnymen live 1979 with drum machine
- Echoes by Pink Floyd
- Reading of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'
- Open Mic: live poetry reading of 'My Skin by the Sea' by Oliver Hurley
Episode – Exquisite Corpse Live Mix
On our quest to embody DIE, we re-engage in a sonic game of Exquisite Corpse, this time live-mixing sound submissions from our listener archive and creating new landscapes for our corpses to lie.
AUDIO APPENDIX
- Intro music: Musique Hydromantique by Tomoko Sauvage
- Sound extract: 'Most Fabulous Turn in My Life' by Teddy Godwin and Jessica Sammut
