Listen to the Audioboo here

Let me know what you think! (RE product as well as process). It was a really, really interesting collaborative process, and the final product is by no means polished. But that’s not the point, is it :)

And the text:

I grew up here. But I don’t recognise it. It changes the land, the rain. After a while you just don’t see it.

I don’t know where all the water comes from. It’s like money, y’know, no one ever explained to me how there could be more in one place, and not use it up somewhere else.

Ice I spose. Like banks.

I wish you could see the sky.

It’s like darkness. Fuller than the sea. And warm. I don’t like that. It grates. The salt makes your face feel like its burning.

I lost you.

That’s a stupid way to say something, it’s not like a map would have been useful.

You died.

And I can smell you on my hair. You grabbed hold of it and you pulled me out of the water. Screaming past. Pushed me on top of the car. The red metal. It were slippery.

Very Titanic.

Do you remember that film?

I walked here. Everyone were walking in the opposite direction. I don’t know how many people I passed. The stones clinked on the path. People had used all of their words up. Wasted them shouting, saying ‘evacuation were ridiculous’ to committees of nervous looking councillors. There were always this feeling that somehow we’d be able to make it not true if we shouted loud enough.

And now they’re all the same – just a white sea of eyes walking past. Brown to me – your brown eyes. The way they, when you laughed. You look out of every face I see, but I know they’re not you, because they’re not laughing. And it’s not just you – because I know, I know now, you don’t realise. But we’re all connected. It sounds like hippy crap, but when you actually see people, when you actually see them, and this much, hurt, you feel it. You know we were always connected. Our breath. But now you breathe, and it doesn’t feel like you have. The air’s so wet.

I’ve given up on staying dry.

I’ve given up.

You can read in more detail how I reacted to each link, and then how I narrowed that down into something to write the monologue from in this hastily put together document

Contributors

Andrew Eglinton

1st link: Video: Fr. Patrick Peyton Interviews Marshall McLuhan (3 parts) http://www.youtube.com/watch… ; http://www.youtube.com/watch… ; http://www.youtube.com/watch…

2nd link: Audio: From The Wire Tapper series #7 – Track 5 – Kim Hiorthøy “Det Blev Fel” http://andreweglinton.com/post… – to me this is music for ‘constructing’.

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilre… + Reading & Audio arrangement with Tom Waits http://blip.fm/profile…

Wbbigdave

http://bit.ly/sCyJM and http://bit.ly/Qf4HI

toodamnninja

Something Corporate – ‘Konstantine‘, and All Time Low – ‘Remembering Sunday‘

Also: Ben Folds “The Luckiest”

TeresatheGG

Two totally contrasting. Hope they’re useful!

http://teresathegg.tumblr.com

samuraipanzer

http://bit.ly/16p6ti

reinikainen

Video song for your project, might be challenging… http://bit.ly/Jv2zf

rdouglasjohnson

Here’s my favourite political essay. http://bit.ly/f4Xjl

markrock

The seed that started audioboo: http://bit.ly/s5Tua

interjectionist

First (and only) two tracks I put together with Ableton Live a few months back: http://bit.ly/zw8bM & http://bit.ly/UMryW And the last song I can think of that sent chills down my spine http://bit.ly/14vVU8

imascientist

This: http://bit.ly/E62IL If anyone can watch that and tell me dolphins aren’t intelligent I’ll weep.

iangoole
I like this piece I did this week http://bit.ly/1Q65×1

caffeinebomb
My favourite place back home http://www.flickr.com/photo… A song about giving a shit http://is.gd/1XgoZ

buddhamagnet

thunder rolls the sky like a dirty cigarette : lightning, on electric stilts, fuses heaven and black earth where the magic pigs hunt for mushrooms

jamiepotter
My favourite nature photo from the past year http://bit.ly/li6AG

The Audioboo ends a bit rambly, because I saw I was coming up to the 5min limit. But nonetheless:

THIS IS a call to WRITERS CREATORS POETS MUSICIANS

To experiment with new forms.

Like Audioboo

I AM GOING TO WRITE A STORY OR MONOLOGUE tomorrow

It will be a reaction to things you send me NEWS, SONGs, VIDEO, PICTURES

I WILL POST IT via audioboo AT 7PM tomorrow (1st August)

Tweet me @hannahnicklin

Please send me things via twitter or comment here. This could end with a bang, or a whimper, but it’s worth trying, let’s see what happens.