Monday 22 August
from 14:00 CEST until 12:00 noon on Tuesday 23 August
Nichola Scrutton
Dream Stream
Dream Stream
“Water is…constantly dissolving and solidifying, washing away and re-forming in perpetual transformation”
-Sensitive Chaos, Theodor Schwenk
Dream Stream weaves together field recordings, voice, fragments of text, visualizations, stories, performance, and archive materials in a sonic contemplation of inner/outer landscapes. The sound of water is a thread across the whole duration. From that constantly shifting ‘surface’, various other sound worlds emerge and recede in a transient dream-like encounter.
Dream Stream is populated with past and present ideas and materials:
Field recordings, including binaural and hydrophone recordings from Scotland, Sri Lanka (Sura Medura Artist Residency), and La Gomera
Sound compositions - sections and fragments from my sound archive Nidra visualizations
Night Vision text and found text
Performance - spoken word, improvisations, voice, guitar Dream stories from contributors
Collaborative projects - sections and re-worked materials created with other artists
Many thanks indeed to collaborators and contributors who are listed below, with links where applicable.
The Programme Schedule outlines the main elements weaving through water in each hour. Otherwise, visualizations, improvisations, and other fragments of material are scattered throughout.
Program Schedule
14:00
Archive – various
15:00
Sri Lanka field recordings
Archive - Sabda saha Pintura
16:00
Dream Stories - thanks to contributors
Brenda Gilmour
Frances Murray
Joyce Hennessy x 2
Gillian Grant
David Dobie
Lorna Fernie with Margaret McCormick
Kit McKeown
Susan Milligan
Angela Rooney
Angela McLauchlin
17:00
Archive - Lateral
Dream Stories - thanks to contributors
Rachael Archer
Charlotte Mellor
18:00
Archive - accidental soundscape, location fragments
Guitar improvisation
19:00
Archive - collaboration with Dougie Strang
Sound for Installation - Teine Eiginn
Additional Voices - Dougie Strang, Rona MacDonald (Gaelic)
20:00
Archive - collaboration with Alex South
Performance: voice, clarinet, electronics - Rough Breathing
21:00
Archive – various
22:00
Archive - collaboration with Martin O’Connor
Sound for Theatre - Building a Nation
Thanks to contributors who were interviewed for Building a Nation (Scottish, Gaelic)
23:00
Night Vision texts (current performance work)
Archive - voice textures
Archive - sound performance/composition for Anne Colvin’s film Dear Prudence re-imagined
Visualizations
00:00
Binaural river recordings
01:00
Binaural river recordings and voice
02:00
Hydrophone recordings, voice, spoken word
03:00
Hydrophone recordings, objects, voice, spoken word
04:00
Water loops
05:00
Hydrophone recordings Archive – Hearafter
06:00
Archive - At First Light
Local field recordings
07:00
Archive - Dwelling / In Dialogue
08:00
Archive - collaboration with Zoë Strachan
Radio artwork, live-to-broadcast performance - Up Closeness
09:00
Archive - Sustenance
voice improvisation and spoken word
10:00
Archive - collaboration with Sarah Tripp
Sound composition for radio artwork - 24 Stops
Written and performed by Sarah Tripp
11:00
Archive - Wave Shift
Sri Lanka field recordings
Thanks for listening.
Many thanks to Radio Art Zone.
Nichola Scrutton is an award-winning composer/sound artist, vocalist, improviser, and artist working across a range of media. Her work has been broadcast internationally, and she has extensive experience as a collaborator in a range of interdisciplinary and participatory contexts. Nichola is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and was awarded a practice-based PhD in electroacoustic composition from the University of Glasgow in 2009. She worked in Music there for two years before going full-time freelance. Portrait photo © Julie Broadfoot