“Untitled”
– found recording, reconstructed, and edited by Hunda Sound with Paul Brennen
TX: Thursday, 17 September⋅9:30 – 10:00pm
Saturday, 19 September⋅10:00 – 10:30pm
Back in 2022, I bought an old Nokia from a pawn shop in Perth with a view to making some glitchy bit-crushed melodies. Before long, I realised that far from having been wiped clean, the phone was still home to a stack of voice notes. I was sufficiently unsettled by them to take them to the police who began an investigation. Weeks later, they came back to me with the news that they’d uncovered nothing of note and suggested I’d been taken in by a hoaxer, “arts poseur” or “arts-based drug-user”. Quite possible. Then again, this is Perthshire: things happen here.
Enter Radiophrenia, the ideal platform to air the recordings in all their liminal strangeness and perhaps an opportunity to connect with someone able to shed more light on the mystery.
Featuring actor Paul Brennen, Untitled is Hunda Sound’s reconstruction of the Nokia voice notes based entirely on the original recordings and incorporating elements of their audio. Hoax? Fugue? Burnout? Assumption? If nothing else, these clips are another single strand in the manifold weave of Perthshire’s mythico-history.
Originated by Luke Sutherland, Hunda Sound sits at the confluence of multiple disciplines. The current primary focus is in creating art – often through improvisation, with strong entropic elements – birthed from interactions between the expressive impulse and the geography, psychogeography, history, social memory, and mythology of rural Perthshire.
Paul Brennen is a RADA-trained actor, writer, director and teacher whose career spans more than three decades across theatre, film, television and audio.
His stage work includes leading roles at the National Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Shakespeare’s Globe, as well as productions in London’s West End and on Broadway. His screen credits include Alien³, Men in Black: International, Borgia and The One.
An accomplished voice artist, Paul played Rhalic, God of Humans, in the BAFTA-winning video game Divinity: Original Sin 2.
Alongside performing, Paul directs and teaches actors internationally, with a particular passion for Shakespeare, ensemble practice and the living relationship between voice, text and imagination.