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David Adebiyi is an original scientist and writer of Lagos who lives in a flat part in a housing in Herne Hill in London. The balcony outside of its living room window looks on a shared courtyard where residents have their yoga carpets in the morning and, on hot days, its Brazilian neighbors use municipal barbecue equipment. Adebiyi says he is envious of those who live opposite whose apartments have a better light than his: “At sunset, (when) you get this beautiful golden light that rushes into the sky, it is at this point that jealousy appears. But you get the sun you get. “
Adebiyi is presented in WindowA warmly meditative podcast of the Roundhouse of the transmission of the London -based network, which presents the work of the audio upwards of Sameis aged 18 to 25. Ivan d'Avoine and Derick Armah are the producers, and their idea is simple: going to people and asking them what they see through the window.
This is a question that invariably leads to reflections on the community, the domesticity and the nature of the cheeks of city life which, notes Adebiyi, can mean that “everyone's affairs are pouring into shared space”. The series is also full of the sounds of an urban house: a boiling kettle, a filled teapot, plus a song of birds, planes passing over the head and voices deriving from the outside. When Adebiyi says about her apartment, “there is comfort in the walls”, the listener can also feel it.
A oats and Armah also speak to Jill Rock, an ex-octogenarian-school sculptor who does work from nature-found items, and who lives in the Brunswick Center, a modernist complex listed by Grade II in the center of London. She likes the light offered by the prominent windows of the building and the “definitive” view which allows her to see the central point of the monuments of London and the Tower BT. At the time of recording, the Digital Babillard of the Tower BT contains an opinion saying: “People die on our roads.” Rock remembers the time he informed the Londoners that David Bowie was dead, which prompted pedestrians in his neighborhood to transform into a spontaneous interpretation of “Starman”.
Window reminds me a little Where are you goingA podcast based on a single question asked foreigners who give fascinating snapshots of human life. While Oat and Armah could dig more deeply with their interviews – I wanted to know more about rock art and the gathering of its materials – the design of sound, which intertwines the music and everyday sounds that we normally staged, is really charming.
There are many more gems on Transmission Roundhouse – And a reason why its audio manufacturers have won prices. I can recommend Unreality By Talia Augustidis, a series of shorts on the collision of fiction and reality. In “Sleep Talks”, Augustidis records surreal exchanges with her sleeping boyfriend while in “Papa Jokes”, she has a conversation with her father on the reasons why he became the objective of his stand-up routine.
