The Pyramid Scheme w/ Aled Simons
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Broadcast on Noods Radio (Bristol) since June 2022 - 3pm - 4pm fourth Tuesday bi-monthly
Records, sonic art and found sound. Beamed from an industrial estate in South Wales, local and global noise. Punk, Post-Punk for the dancefloor, scrappy No Wave and Mutant Disco—often none of that—sonic relationships spiral all over. Art contributions and readings from friends.
Featured contributors: Rachael Allen, Bláithín Mac Donnell, Anthony Shapland, Emmie McLuskey and Sarah Fastré, Laura Yuile, Susan Hughes, Isabel Waidner, Joe Dunthorne.
Preserving Hole - 2024
Preserving Hole is the culmination of a six-month conversational collaboration between Welsh artists Tom Cardew, Aled Simons and Irish artist Bláithín Mac Donnell. Emerging from research sharing and an exploration of practice intersections; individual interests are fused in tangential storytelling, narrative building and myth making.
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Co-written by Aled Simons, Bláithín Mac Donnell, Tom Cardew.
Sound design, edit and production by Aled Simons. Read by Timothy John.
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>> An exhibition of audio, sculpture and textiles at Division of Labour, Manchester 2024
No one knows more about the dolphin than I - 2022
Ecco the Dolphin, Stephen Gately, Pokémon and whistling: a conversational patchwork of found sound, sonic artworks, performance excerpts and records. ‘No one knows more about the dolphin than I’ is a strand of the ongoing long-distance collaboration between artists Aled Simons (Wales) and Bláithín Mac Donnel (Ireland). Animal mimicry, local legend and anecdote, alternative forms of communication and regional traditions form the basis of this 40-minute playlist. Bláithín and Aled’s practices intersect at a point of informal storytelling, pursuing loose narrative and tangential personal mythology—sometimes familiar and unfamiliar at the same time.
This playlist sat alongside Bláithín Mac Donnel: The Snug and Stories. Artists Behind Bars curated by Kitty Finer at The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London 2022.​