Back in studio today recording #AudioDrama This is my little multitrack recording set up:
Just a few more days until YARA hits @smockalley #sceneandheard for two nights only! Expect movement, beauty and an eye-opening experience.
25TH+26TH FEB 7:45PM
#imaginationisthebeginning @smockalley
This scene from the intro of The Chaos Engine remains a favourite of mine. The metallic yet pastel palette, the way the head breaks the frame, the sense of scale, the interesting approach to sculpted anatomy - lovely stuff by @trimfone3! ^_^
Tune in today at 3.30pm for a fascinating talk on Women's Lives in 18th Century China. Join Dr. Isabella Jackson of @tcddublin School of Histories and Humanities and Miss Xun Liu of @TCDAsianStudies as they dissect the classic novel 'The Dream of the Red Chambers'. #WomensStories
Starting my audio drama recording in 2020 the way I ended in 2019 with another very funny script by @ciaraesmyth Today we recorded “All Honey” directed by @JedadeBri and you can also catch the stage production of it this week https://t.co/LDKBwFrc4M #AudioDrama #AudioDramaSunday
Part 2 of the marine science documentary I worked on.
Episode Two
Bull Island
North Bull Island Biodiversity Website: www.bullislandbirds.com
The Deep Sea
Andy Wheeler, UCC: publish.ucc.ie/researchprofiles/D026/awheeler
Mid Atlantic Ridge expedition: www.marine.ie/NR/exeres/84C6DFD2…EED4,frameless.htm
Marine Biodiscovery: www.marine.ie/home/research/Proj…e+Biodiscovery.htm
West Cork Whales
Whale Watch West Cork with Nic Slocum: www.whalewatchwestcork.com
I was a contributor to this weeks Threat Detection representing my ArcadeandRetro.com podcast.
Threat Detection is a new weekly serious video game discussion show and podcast on RadioMade.ie
It’s a good show and well worth a listen. I hope to be able to contribute again at some point.
Threat Detection with Gareth & James featuring Arcade & Retro’s Gavin Byrne – 25 / 2 / 14 by Radiomade on Mixcloud
This week I’ve been finishing up production on a new 2 part marine science documentary series called ‘Ireland’s Oceans’ These programmes are funded under the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s Sound and Vision scheme, which was established to provide funding in support of high quality programmes on Irish culture, heritage and experience, and programmes to improve adult literacy.
The series is essentially a spin off of the Scibernia podcast I worked on, which was an Irish science podcast that we ran for over a year. I worked on Ireland’s Oceans with Scibernia contributors Lenny Antonelli and Triona O’Connell. (Triona’s Science is Delicious blog is well worth a read)
You can listen to part 1 of Ireland Ocean’s online now and you can hear part 2 next week after it’s broadcast on the 28th of Jan on Near FM 90.3 at 16.30.
Ireland has over 1400 km of coastline and 220 million acres of seabed, some of it as deep as 5km. Our seas have weathered our coastlines and shaped our climate. In the distant past the freezing of these oceans created the icecaps that sculpted our land. And when the ice melted, rising seas turned our fragment of north Atlantic rock into an island. Our oceans brought the first settlers to Ireland but later carried millions away.
Despite living on this small island out on the Atlantic we don’t really think of ourselves as an oceanic country and most of us have little connection with the sea. But today Ireland is leading the way in the study of the sea, and our scientists are starting to understand how our oceans work in ever more complex and exciting ways.
Join Lenny Antonelli in this 2 part programme as he follows our marine scientists onto beaches and boats and into the lab to learn about the science of Ireland’s oceans.
Below you will find more information on the research and organisations features in this programme.
Episode One
Dolphin surveying
Strategic Marine Alliance for Research and Training: http://www.smartseaschool.com/
Irish Whale & Dolphin Group: http://www.iwdg.ie/index.php
RV Celtic Mist: http://www.rvcelticmist.ie
Shannon Dolphin and Wildlife Foundation: http://www.shannondolphins.ie
Fish vocalisation
This research is funded by the Irish Research Council: http://www.research.ie
GMIT Marine and Freshwater Research Centre: https://www.gmit.ie/marine-and-freshwater-research-centre-mfrc
Malahide marina field laboratory
UCD Marine Biodiversity Ecology & Evolution Group: http://www.ucd.ie/marbee/
Malahide field laboratory: http://www.ucd.ie/marbee/malahide.html
Microplastics
Micrplastics in the Sea: http://smartseaschool.blogspot.ie/2013/02/microplastics-in-sea-amy-lusher.html
Another dramatic adaptation of a James Joyce short story. ‘A Painful Case’ from his book ‘The Dubliners’ was produced as part of the Reading Together series on Near FM.
Mr. Duffy, a middle-aged bank cashier, deliberately lives in an isolated suburb of Dublin. He is characterized as very meticulous and ordered and has little social contact. At a concert one night, Duffy makes the acquaintance of Mrs. Emily Sinico, a married mother. They start up a relationship that is innocent enough to be condoned by Mrs. Sinico’s husband, who believes the two’s discussions revolve mostly around his daughter and the possibility of a relationship between her and Duffy. The two draw closer together, and one night Mrs. Sinico impulsively takes his hand and presses it to her cheek, but Duffy is not pleased at the development and ends their meetings. Four years later, he reads that Mrs. Sinico has been struck by a train and killed. The newspaper article, the title of which provides the title of the story, contains an account by her husband, who states that she began drinking two years ago. The details of the accident suggest that she may have committed suicide. He reacts at first with revulsion, concluding that some inherent weakness led to her drinking and the accident, but he slowly comes to believe that it was his rejection that condemned her to solitude and death. He reflects on his own loneliness: “No one wanted him; he was outcast from life’s feast.” The story ends with Duffy listening to the silence of the surrounding night atop a hill overlooking Dublin where he and Sinico used to sit down and talk, where he realizes just how lonely he really is.
This a dramatic adaptation of James Joyce’s short story ‘Ivy Day in the Committee Room’ from his book ‘The Dubliners’ it was produced as part of the Reading Together series on Near FM.
In a committee room, Mat O’Connor, a canvasser for Richard Tierney, a candidate in an upcoming municipal election, discusses child-rearing with Old Jack, who tries to keep a fire going. Joe Hynes, another canvasser, arrives and needles O’Connor on whether he’s been paid for his work yet. He proceeds to defend rival candidate Colgan’s working class background and maintains that Tierney, although a Nationalist, will likely present a welcome address at the upcoming visit of King Edward VII. When Hynes points out that it is Ivy Day, a commemoration of Charles Stewart Parnell, a nostalgic silence fills the room. Another canvasser, John Henchy, enters and derides Tierney for not having paid him yet. When Hynes leaves, Henchy voices a suspicion that the man is a spy for Colgan. Henchy badmouths another canvasser, Crofton, just before Crofton himself enters with Lyons. Crofton had worked for the Conservative candidate until the party withdrew and gave their support to Tierney.
The talk of politics drifts to Charles Stewart Parnell, who has his defenders and detractors in the room. Hynes returns and is encouraged to read his sentimental poem dedicated to Parnell. The poem is highly critical of those who betrayed him, including the Roman Catholic Church, and places Parnell among the ancient heroes of Ireland. All applaud the performance and seem to forget their differences for the moment.
