On Air - On Site : 48 Hours of Radio Art

Airing on May 24th 06:00 CEST
BUILDING AS BODY
Genre: Soundscape Composition
Duration: 30 min
Originally recorded, composed and produced (Jan/Feb 2023) for BONDING: Electrons are FREE, an exhibition by artist, Emily Fong (https://emilyfongstudio.com), and scientist, Professor Alan Fairlamb.

All sounds (recorded by Semay Wu, the staff and students of WCAIR, Jan/Feb 2023) were found in the buildings located at the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR), within The School of Life Sciences at The University of Dundee; also, of Tay Road Bridge, and Broughty Ferry.

BUILDING AS BODY was re-composed into a 1hr stereo track to represent the original 2hr 4-channel composition that was played throughout the exhibition. This is part of the album called BONDING, to be released in 2026/7.

Featuring:

Semay Wu

Semay Wu – music maker mash – is a Scotland-based composer, media/sound artist, improviser and cellist. Influenced by free improvisation and electroacoustic frameworks, Semay brings a unique interdisciplinary approach to her work.

As well as being as a cellist, Semay produces and composes in different formats: graphic scores, audio/video-pieces, score-based work, performance interactive-installations, exhibition-theatre-dance pieces, and online community projects, such as Sounds Like Scran. Solo performances concentrate on live improvised electronics that sample cello, voice, tapes and everyday objects, while current collaborations are with Skye Reynolds (dance), Seth Bennett (double bass), Juana Adcock (poet), and larger groups: Ubu Warp Cheer, New String Collective and GIO.

Since 2022, Semay has regularly released solo material: Raspberry Hotel (Akashic Records, 2022), Sharmanka & Unsteady Stones (scatterArchive, 2023 & 2024), and Unsteady Stones/The Spinal Cactus #001 (Spinal Cactus, 2024).

https://semaywu.com

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22-24 May 2026 - 48hours of Radio Art