Radiophrenia and Thinking Culture present Lost in Transmission #5

Lost in transmission is a series of events presenting non-English language radio works with subtitled translations in cinema spaces around Scotland. The captioning allows audiences to experience the wealth of radio art available from all over the globe in its original language in the comfortable space of a cinema – in much the same way as you might go to see a foreign language film – only here there are no pictures, just the sounds, the words and your imagination.

This event is the fifth in the series and will feature a specially commissioned new audio work , Attis in Caledon – with words and performance by Harry Josephine Giles and sound design and music by Callie Rose Petal (ⁿᵒᵗBorges). The programme of radio works will be followed by a live performance by Cara Tolmie, who will be performing a newly commissioned piece, Sucker Vent.

This experimental Scots translation of Catullus 63 tells the story of a young athlete driven mad by the Mother Goddess, driven to become an orgiastic priestess in the wild mountain woods, in a cacophanous reimagining of the Latin classic as a trans hymn to the Caledonian Forest. "Attis in Caledon" uses the full force of Scots to create a contemporary version of galliambic metre, the ancient poetic form of Cybele's centuries-long trans priesthood, and the poetry is complemented by original music and archival material woven together into a new work of noise alchemy. We ran through the ancient pines of Coille Choire Chuilc in the foothills of Beinn Os to bring you this magic.

Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, living in Leith. Her latest book is the poetry collection Them! (Picador 2024). Her verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia (Picador 2021) won the 2022 Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction book of the year. Her poetry collections The Games (Out-Spoken Press, 2018) and Tonguit (Freight Books 2015) were between them shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Saltire Prize and the Edwin Morgan Poetry Award. Her stage show of her poetry sequence Drone toured internationally in 2019, and the performance of Deep Wheel Orcadia will tour in 2025. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Stirling. www.harryjosephine.com

Cara Tolmie spends much of her time oscillating between contexts as a vocalist, visual artist, performer, pedagogue and researcher. Her works have been performed and exhibited widely at art galleries, music festivals, biennials, conferences and in the public space – both as solo presentations and collaborative projects. Her practice at large investigates the complexity of the bind between the voice and body - of how voice can traverse internal and external realities of both the sounder and listener and how it can research various qualities of embodiment, both pleasurable and disorienting. Within this she often explores performative techniques that dis/reorient the listening relationship between the singer and their audience through live uses of defamiliarised, mesmeric and repetitive vocalisation. This investigation also extends into expanded installations that include large-scale textiles and sounding metal sculptures. In these installations, such forms create integrated listening architectures that shape how voice resonates through space, inviting audiences to encounter sound not only as performance but as a material, sensorial and spatial experience.Cara is currently finishing a PhD in Critical Sonic Practice at Konstfack, Stockholm titled Internal Singing - Sounding Through Vocalbody Disorientation. She collaborates regularly with Rian Treanor, Stine Janvin, Susanna Marcus Jablonski, Em Silén and Julia Giertz.

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