As part of our public engagement activities for 2023 we have worked with four diverse community groups to create a series of radio and sound works for broadcast on Radiophrenia.
‘They’ve Not Got Ears, Per Se’ is a sonic and sometimes submerged imagining of what a fish’s world sounds like, maggot eating included – and what they make of us humans above the water. As well as moving above and below a fishery’s pools, this piece also takes us between different fisher people; to hear about what fishing means to them, past prize catches (where fishes are as big as crocodiles), and what it feels like to hook a fish (and to be hooked, as a fish).
Created by Govanhill Baths Fishing Group, recorded in Summer 2023 at the Springwater Fishery, Ayr.
Production and sound design by Ros Fraser and Flora Zajicek for Radiophrenia.
Govanhill Baths is a grassroots, activist-based organisation delivering health, wellbeing, arts, environmental and heritage projects. Govanhill Baths Fishing Group invites families, couples and individuals to meet new people, and to acquire skills in both fly and bait fishing, supported by the Scottish Federation for Coarse Angling (SFCA).
The works created during these workshops will be broadcast as part of a special afternoon listening event from 3pm – 5.30pm on Thursday, 24th August.
