Projects
It's an Audio Detour
What an audio detour is
Its an Audio De-Tour is a piece of site specific performance art for two people. It is an audio tour that goes in through your ears and out through your feet. Each tour lasts 30 minutes. At the starting point, you and your partner pick up an mp3 player each. A voice describes your surroundings and takes you each on a separate but synchronised journey through public and private spaces, using the architecture of the city as stage design. Its an Audio De-Tour layers choreography, soundscapes and stories on top of the real city and asks you to use everyday space with a playful and childlike sense of experimentation, exploration and adventure, exploring places you might normally ignore. It's an Audio De-Tour is made afresh for every space.
Click hear to listen to samples of our most recent tour:
How to take an audio detour:
1. Find one free half hour and one friend/stranger/partner who has one too.
2. Go to the detour starting point.
3. Collect an mp3 player each or download the audio file onto your own player.
4. Press play at the same time and put your player on hold.
5. Listen and follow the instructions you hear for the following 30 minutes.
It's an Audio Detour is a collaboration between Fiona Hallinan and Maebh Cheasty, with sound currently being created by Alex Synge.
Maebh choreographs the route, Fink writes the words and designs.
It's an Audio Detour's sound was previously created by Peter Morrow and, previous to that, by Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.
From April 2008 It's an Audio Detour: Forever and Ever will be available on an ongoing basis from Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
The tour is available to take every day except Sunday from 12pm to 7pm. It takes 30 minutes.
For some more information, including excerpts from texts written for past detours you can look here or see our myspace page.
Left: It's an Audio Detour as part of We are Here, a "season of alternative projects probing the physical and cultural landscape through interactive film, mixed-reality gaming, mobile theatre and gently subversive audio tours" in collaboration with Project Arts Centre and Dublin Docklands Authority.
You can see a review by Peter Crawley from The Irish Times for this show here.
Right: It's an Audio Detour: A Christmas Special in collaboration with Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
Both videos by Alex Synge.
The Sea Sees Me
The Sea Sees Me is a project by myself and Patrick Bresnihan, with live sounds by Rachel Ni Chuinn. Stories are told through words and real taste, touch and smell to a blindfolded audience. It was invented for LightsOFF! a festival of acoustic and non-electric art held in Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny in May 2008 and organised by Kate Strain and Luci Van Delden. We are performing this show next inside Disconnect a walking tour and party made by Maebh Cheasty/ You're Only Massive as part of We are Here 3.0. This will start on June 30th and happen every evening until July 5th.
A Symposium A Banquet
A Symposium A Banquet was "a meeting time for the exchange of lessons, knowledge and sharing experiences over a banquet table". The show involved a diverse range of speakers giving talks on different subjects to an audience of about thirty people. The subjects ranged from an introduction to String Theory to lessons in tearing a phonebook in half. Afterwards everyone sat down to eat a meal of Korean barbecue prepared for us by the Parnell Street restaurant The Hop House.
You can see some more information and pictures of the night here. I produced this event with Tessa Giblin, who is the visual arts curator at Project Arts Centre.
