Sonic Scenography Episode #5: Resonant Spaces
This broadcast comprises of recordings from the Mojave Desert in California where Rachel performed a Rock Concert as part of the Joshua Treennial in 2019. The soundscape also includes a Q+A with the film maker James Benning from the premiere of his film about the politics of his current teaching role at CALARTS; the connection to his work is to do with spatiality and the audio aspect of the landscape. The concluding soundscape is from a recent concert with the French cult artist Ghédalia Tazartès. Sonic Scenography is a series of twelve radio broadcasts by artist Rachel Dagnall about the experience of incarceration. The theme is explored through non-verbal sound or sonic scenographies composed by former inmates in Beirut, Syria, the Mojave Desert, Oslo, Berlin and Barcelona. The project aims to showcase artistic expressions about prison, surveillance and imposed mental and physical demarcation, and illustrate how such experiences distort or change our interpretation of space and immediate surroundings. Actors move and create images of one specific place - both physical and mental - in the form of musical performances, physical movements, readings, conversations and more, with the use of resonance bringing a specific focus to the different rooms in which this takes place. Sonic Scenography is commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Radio Tenthaus and forms Rachel’s Master project at the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad, Østfold.