Join performative broadcasts bringing your unique skills and interests including song, acting, comedy, sound effects and writing!
It is easy to forget that the most important word in the phrase "putting on a play" is "play". In increasingly spurious and difficult times, there doesn't seem to be time enough for anybody to explore ideas which - given the human capacity for creativity - seems an injustice.
The highly regarded and controversial mixed media artists Lottie Depresstival & Dr Ergo Phizmiz, regulars on Soundart's Friday afternoons, invite you to join them in the making of a series of Plays for radio, using the whole range of radiophonic techniques combined with experimental approaches to making radio drama. Taking place in live workshop settings, these sessions will constitute a flurry of ideas and activities, across words, music and noises, to explore the edges of this most versatile, democratic and cost effective storytelling medium - after all, it costs the same in a sonic environment to take the listener to Totnes as it does an aural trip to Jupiter.
Lottie & Ergo have worked together for eight years. Both prolific artists in their own right, the best part of the last decade has comprised a remarkable creative exchange and collaboration. They work together under the name Avanthardcollective, as production house for theatre, opera, movies and radio drama, both DIY productions and scenography for maj0r international opera houses.
As a radio artist Ergo has created work for stations internationally including Soundart, BBC Radio 3, BBC 6Music, Bayerischer Rundfunk, WDR, Concertzender, VPRO, Resonance FM and two years on legendary New Jersey freeform radio station WFMU. His radio work has received awards from the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Kunst and Special Mention at the Prix Italia.
Ergo & Lottie's many collaborative radioplays for radio stations in Germany and the Netherlands have ranged from subjects like animals in space to wolves in opera houses and the adventures of Mr Punch in the 21st century.
Regarded internationally as maverick outsider artists, with magical work informed by the very un-magical society around them, Lottie & Ergo propose mass societal creative liberation for everybody and - given that radio, as a narrative medium, is doubtless the most flexible and vivid - these workshops will explore and play with time, history, spontaneity, in the creation of vivid aural images and soundscapes where we joyously tickle the intersection of word, sound and music.
We will meet for two hours. Hour one will be a mixture of enquiry, discussion and exploration, the second hour a live broadcast on air from our studio at Dartington. We hope you can join us for all dates, but if not all, come along to what you can - each session will be different!
