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Airing on May 24th 18:30 CEST
When We Bow Down Our Heads
Genre: Radio Drama
Duration: 60 min
Part One: Wind Over Water 00:00
Part Two: Wind Over land(s) 20:00
Part Three: Wind Over Bodies 40:00
This is the first in a series of wind-works and is constructed from field recordings spanning 10 years. The swirling together of locations in the three 20-minute movements emulate the promiscuous borderlessness of wind as it whispers and gusts across water, land, structures and bodies. Face it, the wind doesn’t care about your nations.
The title is adapted from Christina Rosetti’s poem “Who Has Seen The Wind” and reimagines her short verses from the perspective of the trees themselves, that bow, not in subjugation, but in resiliency.
Future additions of the series will include the voices of people that have a particular connection to wind, for example: an illustrator focused on climate, a Diné artist that weaves wind into his works, a woman born in the windiest state in America, a low vision designer that creates sensory textiles, and a scientist that studies wind currents.
When We Bow Down Our Heads includes recordings from:
Accord, NY, USA ★ Agate Beach, CA, USA ★ Brooklyn Army terminal, NY, USA ★ Casco Bay, ME, USA ★ Clear Lake, CA, USA Deer Mountain CO, USA ★ Four Corners, AZ/UT/CO/MM, USA ★ Jackson, WY, USA ★ Jamaica Bay, NY, USA ★ Kefalonia, GREECE ★ Mabul Island, BORNEO ★ Manhattan - Pier 6, NY, USA ★ Ridgewood, Queens, NY ★ Robert Moses State Park, NY, USA ★ Zion National Park, UT, USA

Featuring:

John Roach

John Roach is a US artist and educator based in Queens New York, whose work is concerned with the often slippery role that sound plays in our perception of the world. His recent projects, that range from works for radio to intermedia installations, have explored the ability of sound to construct immersive portraits of places, and how the careful assembly of spatialized field recordings, sound design elements, and voices can connect a listener to unexpected impressions of a landscape or soundscape. He has had exhibitions and residencies in the US and Internationally.