Evelyn's Request
A sprawling 2-hour audio collage combining excerpts, samples and audio quotes from a range of over 20 different popular films featuring radio broadcasts. Sampled films include: 'Play Misty for Me', 'Radio Days', 'Talk Radio', 'The Fog', 'Warriors', 'American Graffiti' and 'Pump Up The Volume'. Radio is both the medium and the subject of this programme, a unique feature that is used to play with listener expectations, flitting between fictional radio stations with bursts of static, white noise and wild long wave frequencies as though scanning between stations. As this schizophrenic collage progresses numerous simultaneously developing narratives begin to catch the listener's ear.
Originally commissioned for the Drift festival of radio art in association with New Media Scotland. This piece was first aired on Resonance 104.4FM in 2005.
MP3: Evelyn's Request (excerpt)