Hannah White & Stephen Shiell work together as Blanc Sceol (meaning white temporary shelter). They are certified Deep Listening® practitioners, a discipline that applies meditation principles to sound, developed by the innovative composer Pauline Oliveros. In addition to facilitating Deep Listening® workshops and Sound Walks, Blanc Sceol perform variously, describing their work as ‘Psychosonographic, expressing our experience of place, with field recordings, self-created instruments, found objects, voice and text.’
Past performances have involved demonstrations of Palaeolithic instruments, marauding animal choirs and fishing for sounds at the wetlands. Expect a deep excavation into the human psyche across their choices and an exploration of their sound awareness foremothers. ~ From time expansion to silence sculpting & the cosmic ripplings of tea ~
For past work and future workshops & performances see:
https://www.blancsceol.co.uk
To hear Blanc Sceol & Conny Prantera’s Animal Choir, performed at Café Oto in full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkUA8DLytLc
To hear Blanc Sceol’s ‘Roar’ performed at Conway Hall in full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vkmTaBQtZI
To hear Blanc Sceol’s ‘Scorched’, performed at New River Studios in full:
https://soundcloud.com/blanc-sceol/scorched-live-performance-at-skronkfest-2018
Episode Chapters:
00 Theme Music: Beneath The Comatose Lagoon (00m 00s)
01 Introducing... Hannah & Stephen of Blanc Sceol (00m 47s)
02 Beautiful Cosmos — Ivor Cutler (03m 03s)
03 Wolf— Ánde Somby (12m 26s)
04 Tiger Balm — Annea Lockwood (24m 32s)
05 Bye Bye Butterfly — Pauline Oliveros (34m 00s)
06 Sustained Piece — Spontaneous Music Orchestra led by John Stevens (44m 06s)
07 The Animal Choir— Blanc Sceol & Conny Prantera (49m 35s)
08 Songs & Views of the Magnetic Garden — Alvin Curran (52m 42s)
09 The Fools Sermon — Daniel Higgs (58m 24s)
10 Empty Your Pockets — The International Nothing (1h 06m 00s)
11 7-Methoxy-β-Carboline: (Telepathine) — Coil (1h 11m 15s)
12 All You Are Going To Want To Do Is Get Back There — The Caretaker (1h 19m 19s)
13 Latcho Drom — Dir. Tony Gatlif (1h 25m 06s)
14 Roar — Blanc Sceol (1h 31m 56s)
15 House — Rachel Whiteread (1h 33m 50s)
16 The Drowned World — JG Ballard (1h 40m 40s)
17 Scorched— Blanc Sceol (1h 43m 50s)
Apocalypse Bunker Discs is the alternative 🏝’You know what' 💿 for the age of rising sea levels, where— let's face it — the castaway is far more likely to find themselves marooned in an underground hiding place than a paradisal isle. Due to the nuclear storms playing havoc with the satellites up above, Wifi rationing will have to be enforced, allowing for 8 selections of music, a film, ebook and artwork to provide solace.
Oliver Turtle is your subterranean guide, mediating the Lockaway's Underheard musical transmissions.
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