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DIAL on Dublin Digital Radio

Tune in to Dublin Digital Radio on Saturday 7 December 2024 at 2pm local time, where I will be performing excepts from my writing project DIAL, with sonic interventions by Vicky Langan and Nick Roth, in a 60 minute broadcast presented by Diatribe Records.


DIAL is a durational-procedural-aleatory work I composed by live-transcribing 5 minutes of talk radio broadcasting anywhere in the world each and every day across the entire calendar year 2021, and linking these transcripts with short pieces of 'original' writing produced contemporaneously. The radio station accessed each day depended on the previous day's text, and was determined by entering keywords from it as search terms on the TuneIn platform. The full manuscript runs to over 120k words, and it is divided into 12 chapters arranged as uninterrupted blocks of text.

Over the past few months I have been working with Diatribe Records in translating DIAL back into sound by speaking the entire text for a Diatribe catalogue 'audiobook' release in 2025. The recorded material will provide a source element for this broadcast, which will encompass live readings from me and layers of improvised sonic contributions from Vicky and Nick involving feedback loops, distortions, hacked radios, and/or other forms of noise.

The recording of DIAL, and the broadcast performance, are supported by The Arts Council of Ireland.



Vicky Langan is a Cork-based artist whose practice operates across several often overlapping fields, chiefly sound, performance, and film.

Nick Roth is a saxophonist, composer, producer and educator, many of whose compositions explore the symbiotic resonance of language as sound and symbol.

Diatribe Records is Ireland's leading independent record label for new music, founded in Dublin in 2007.

Dublin Digital Radio is an award-winning online radio station providing a radical alternative to established media, supporting experimental and left-of-field programming since 2016.

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