Jorge Boehringer – Figures in a Landscape
Monday, 21 September⋅12:00am – 12:15pm
At midnight tonight we switch off the FM transmitter but our stream will keep on going for another 12 hours. To conclude this year’s broadcasts we have an epic 12-hour long-form work by Newcastle-Upon-Tyne based composer, artist, and writer, Jorge Boehringer.
From midnight to midday – ‘Figures in a Landscape’ is a durational radio work telling the story of an environment gradually becoming conscious of itself. As listeners dip in and out, they visit a world both familiar and alien, science and fiction. Much of the sound derives from a long duration recording of an installation presented in September 2025. In both works, synthesized and recorded sounds are shaped and modulated by real-time streams of seismic and geomagnetic data from the Eskdalemuir Seismic Observatory in the Scottish Borders. Rather than ‘map’ data in a rational way, sounds are floated upon or textured by it, as the boughs of an oak are floated by an unseen breeze and dappled by streams of sunlight falling upon them through taller trees. 25 paragraphs about Figures in a Landscape are added in voice-over, describing a recent visit to Eskdalemuir and other, quite varied, reflections.
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