Messengers come from many places bearing a variety of news, good bad and indifferent. They tell us of experiences and events that we haven't witnessed, that happened in a remote or inaccessible location. They bear witness and we have a choice whether to trust to that witnessing. Like Hermes (messenger of the Olympians and the patron of boundaries and those who cross them), these messengers can also bring knowledge of things unknown to humanity. Alien abductees bringing tales of galactic peace or disaster, mediums interpreting voices from the other side, these are the messengers who claim contact with exotic and impossible places but the words they bring lack exoticism and impossibility.

Mike Cousin 2011


Don't Shoot The Messenger is collective title for a series of on-going sonic interventions made using a GPS mobile sound platform. The first presentation will feature a sound piece by the Cardiff based Bear-Man.

Program 1 WELCOME TO YOUR WORLD
All these Worlds are yours except.... featuring Bear-Man
A journey around a series of roundabout or inner constellations within the personal universe of the city. The locations relating to the stars of Ursa Major they will create a real-time soundtrack of the city played through the GPS.

Conversation with a Cat about Hunting
a re-staging of Marcel Broodthaers 1970 Interview with a Cat, but the dialogue with Hapus a sub-urban town cat will focus on the act of hunting and attempt to inform the listener, dislocated from the natural world how to recall skills that were instinctive to early man.

Island Dialogues
Leona Jones plays the part of fictional artist in resident for the Leckwith roundabout. A number of text were created as part of the placement of which her text Frere Jacques references to the process of singing in the round.
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