SHERDS: Five Verses On Six Sacks Of Earth
90 minutes, audio work, for radio
broadcast by Radiophrenia Glasgow and Resonance Extra in 2020, and Montez Press Radio 2021.
Sherds is an ongoing experimental work initiated on a residency during a five-week archaeological dig. Performed by an ensemble of musicians, archaeologists and vocalists, SHERDS exists as a live performance, a collection of writing and a 90-minute audio work. This audio iteration brings together spoken word, improvisation, vibrating rocks, field recordings, live audio and new compositions. Exploring new forms that radio broadcast affords, SHERDS draws on the specialisms of the extended ensemble of performers and archaeologists to unearth, collapse, backfill and reassemble the rhythms of archaeology, changing land-use, topography and history.
Sherds is produced and performed by Rebecca Lee and Nastassja Simensky with Bobby Cotterill, Sophie Cooper, Alison Cooper, Kelly Jayne Jones, Caroline Trutz. This audio work for radio broadcast also includes the voices of Danielle Knights, Bernie Velvick, Rebecca Atherton, Katy Soar, Rick Peterson, Catherine Reardon, Aidan Parker and John Claydon.
This work was broadcast with Radiophrenia Glasgow and Resonance Extra in 2020, and Montez Press Radio 2021.
ADDITIONAL MATERIAL
Writing about the labour of the archaeological excavation and the collaboration of SHERDS is available HERE
'After Lolly Willowes, For All the Aunts' is a new text by Nicola Guy commissioned t in response to the 2020 performance at Nottingham Contemporary.