Tom Lye
Bio
Selected Works
Centre for Research Architecture
Echoes
Reverberations
Interference with Montez Press Radio
Green Clydeside, Transition Security Project with Common Wealth
Summer University, Performing Arts Forum
DRAMA Working Group, Performing Arts Forum
Wet Waves Radio Collective, Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre
Alternating Currents, Dublin Digital Radio
‘Buildinghostransmissions’ Archive Listening Session, Cubitt Gallery
Clatterbridge Cancer Centre Podcast, FACT Liverpool
Sedimentary Zoning Practices & Sonic Afterlives in the Port City
Alternating Current, Dublin Digital Radio
May 2025
If the Fluxus score explores relationality in the city, how could stage directions explore relationality in the media(ted) city; where radio is heard autonomously and in constant movement, from passing car windows or wireless headphones that process or prevent ambient external sound from entering our individuated cinematic worlds with the click of a button and the wheel of a window.With discussion on the cinematic visuality and media-time of the port city brandscape, this intervention will entail a sounding through stage directions and scripts. A sounding of the city as an architectural archeological investigation of depth and verticality and unknowing, where stage directions invite continuous reception to urban environments. Using the plays of Walter Benjamin and his particular radiophonic terrain, these entanglements can be pulled apart and re-presented like a spectrogram, as we are invited to consider the contemporary sonic staging in which capitalism currently performs and how it can be manipulated by radio-makers in our subjective stations of relation.