Remote Performances: radio art broadcasts from Outlandia
Remote Performances is a collaboration between artists London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm, the world’s first art radio station. For one week in August 2014, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents will be broadcast live from Outlandia, a unique artists’ field-station in Glen Nevis, Lochaber, Scotland – which provide a timely reflection on contemporary ideas of remoteness, capturing and transmitting creative interactions with the land, its history and people and the tensions between nature, industry, tourism and heritage.
Artists: Bram Thomas Arnold | Atlas Arts | Ruth Barker | Ed Baxter (with Resonance Radio Orchestra) | Johny Brown (with Inga Tillere and James Stephen Finn) | Clair Chinnery | Adam Dant | Tam Dean Burn | Benedict Drew | Alec Finlay (with Ken Cockburn) | Bruce Gilchrist & Jo Joelson | Kirsteen Davidson Kelly |Sarah Kenchington | Lisa O’Brien | Lee Patterson | Michael Pedersen (with Ziggy Campbell) | Geoff Sample | Mark Vernon | Parl Kristian Bjorn Vester (aka Goodiepal) | Tracey Warr | Tony White
Broadcasting on Resonance 104.4FM, August 4th-9th, 2014, 12-4pm.
The Sound of Lochaber is a six-part series on Resonance FM for Remote Performances produced by Mark Vernon and London Fieldworks. The series is broadcast daily at 12pm from the Outlandia studio in the foothills of Ben Nevis.
To catch up with previous episodes of The Sound of Lochaber you can listen here:
Episode 1: The Gathering
Episode 2: The Angel’s Share
Episode 3: Highland Games
Episode 4: Songlines
Episode 5: The Jacobite
Episode 6: Distillation
Supported by Creative Scotland.