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Download: Behind the Wall – 10 – Sven Moritz Interview In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’ we speak to Sven Mortiz, who plays the character of Matthäus Kassmayer in the present day in ‘The Wall in the Mind’. Sven talks about living through the reunification of Germany, and a childhood lived in the communist state … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 12 – Sven Moritz Interview →

Download: Behind the Wall – 10 – Jasmin Gleeson Interview An interview with Irish actress Jasmin Gleeson, who plays one half of the character of Claire in ‘The Wall in the Mind’. We talk about the unique challenges of sharing a role, as well as how the experience of on location radio drama recording differs from … Continue reading Behind The Wall – 11 – Cast Interview – Jasmin Gleeson →

Download: Behind the Wall – 10 – Janine Dürkop Interview Janine Dürkop is a German born actress who plays the part of ‘Nicole’ in the Wall in the Mind. In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’ Janine talks about taking on the role, and moving to Ireland to pursue acting outside the constraints of the German … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 10 – Janine Dürkop Interview →

Download: Behind the Wall – 9 – Halfway Point In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’, recorded half way through production, I reflect on the process of location recording. The program is starting to take shape, the actors are producing incredible performances and the script is coming to life. Behind the Wall Behind The Wall is a … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 9 – Half Way Point →

Download: Behind the Wall – 8 – This is Berlin In today’s episode of ‘Behind the Wall’, a trip around the Soundscapes of Berlin. Behind the Wall Behind The Wall is a series of special feature podcasts accompanying ‘The Wall in the Mind‘, an ambitious new on-location drama series, coming to Newstalk and podcast starting on … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 8 – This is Berlin →

Download: Behind the Wall – 7 – Money Freakout In todays episode I take a look back at the worst moment of every project. When the money runs out. Right before we started production on ‘The Wall in the Mind’, I’d run out of money. Though the project was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland’s … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 7 – Money Freakout →

Download: Behind the Wall – 6 – Rehearsals A look behind the curtain at the rehearsal process, in todays episode of ‘Behind the Wall’. Behind the Wall Behind The Wall is a series of special feature podcasts accompanying ‘The Wall in the Mind‘, an ambitious new on-location drama series, coming to Newstalk and podcast starting on … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 6 – Rehearsal →

Download: Behind the Wall – 5 – Shryan Gosling In today’s Episode of ‘Behind the Wall’ we return to the audition process. We take a look a the demands recording an ‘off book’ script places on actors. James O’Connor describes the intricate psychological manipulations involved in the casting process. I’m joined in this episode by actor … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 5 – Shryan Gosling →

Download: Behind the Wall – 4 – Location Scouting In episode 4 of our making-of series ‘Behind the Wall‘, we travel down to Martinstown House in the Curragh of County Kildare, to location scout for the drama series, in the company of Andrew Booth. Why would you record a radio series on location? How do different places … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 4 – Location Scouting →

Download: Behind the Wall 3 – Auditions with James O’Connor Episode 2 of ‘Behind the Wall’, visits the audition process as myself and Dublin based James O’Connor struggle with the task of finding the perfect cast for ‘The Wall in the Mind’. Whats This? Behind The Wall is a series of special feature podcasts accompanying … Continue reading Behind the Wall – 3 – The Auditions →

Download: Behind the Wall 2 – Ewan Hennelly – Berlin Military Base Story In episode 2 of ‘Behind the Wall’, I join Ewan Hennelly on the South Downs, to hear about his narrow escape from the forces of law and order exploring Berlin’s mysterious Teufelsberg. Teufelsberg is an abandoned cold war spy facility nested in … Continue reading Behind the Wall 2 – Ewan Hennelly – Berlin Military Base Story →

Download: Behind The Wall – Episode 1 – One Good Thing My next radio drama series hits Newstalk next month starting on Saturday the 16th of April. “The Wall in the Mind” looks at the impossibility of love and even friendship in a world where someone is always watching – the Stasi surveillance state of … Continue reading Behind The Wall – 1 – One Good Thing →

The Wall in the Mind is an upcoming radio drama series on Newstalk, launching early 2016. Claire O’Hanlon, a young Irish woman, became caught up in the events sweeping East Berlin just prior to the fall of the Berlin wall. Arrested at a pro-democracy protest, Claire and her friends were imprisoned by the East German … Continue reading The Wall in the Mind – New Drama Series Coming Early 2016 →

A companion to Paraudiolia 1 (a piece composed as part of Bluebottle Collective’s ‘Hibernation Radio’ project), Paraudiolia Part 2 deals with degeneration in a cosmic context – the personal and collective dementia experienced as we flail beyond our capacities. This is a series of works employing musique concrete, anonymised interview and reflexive writing, to reflect … Continue reading Paraudolia Part 2 [Mechanical Blasphemy] →

This piece was made during last years Hearsay Festival, and won a tiny award for best story in the In The Dark audio scavenger hunt! It features Pat Herbert of the Hurdy Gurdy Radio Museum, the sounds of the Hearsay Festival church heater, and György Ligeti’s ‘Requiem’. Download: Stardust

Where do we turn for love in the modern age? A variety of apps promise instant sex, momentary intimacy, group vouched safety. In this odd little story, one Irish man talks about his disenchantingly modern experience with a creature of myth. This is the first episode in Dead Medium Productions new podcast. This will be … Continue reading A Creature of Myth →

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Excited to announce that a piece I created for Blue Bottle Collective’s Hibernation Radio project is being played at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, as part of the ‘More Than One Maker‘ exhibition. Massive congratulations to all the Blue Bottle Collective! You can listen to the piece, which explores Dublin’s rejection of it’s young … Continue reading ‘Paraudiolia 1’ sound art at IMMA →

Download: Robot Jam I really had no idea what to expect. Where is Kilfinane? Why is it so far away? What has it got to do with radio? The Hearsay Festival turned out to be chock-full of talented folk obsessed with sound in all its forms. Rachel Ni Chuinn’s talk about her intricately wrought documentary … Continue reading Memories of Hearsay 2014 →

Experimental short documentary piece I made a while back. The narration was adapted from an unpublished short story called ‘The Wedding Tree’. The story was later adapted into a radio drama for Newstalk. I talked about the ideas behind this story in an Ignite talk at Mindfields a couple of years back called ‘The Nuts … Continue reading The World You Think You Live In →