Sonic Scenography Episode #7: Suicide Notes
Today's broadcast comprises of excerpts read from a diary and book of suicide notes written by Rachel during her home imprisonment in Oslo. The texts are a reflection upon the themes of isolation whilst remaining as a functioning citizen in society, and aim to uncover a personal struggle with loneliness and exclusion. The question of how relationships are permanently changed after such a home internment are an undercurrent in the slightly tragi-comic theme of ´ending it all´ whilst confined without any supporting structure. 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.