Wild Tracks are a collective – we’re always open to new projects and working with new people who might want to join in with what we do. If you’d like to make new episodes with us, or if you’d like to share some of our previous episodes – get in touch through the contact page.
Artists
What are your names? | Rona and Tara.
Where do you live? | Edinburgh.
Who are the characters is your stories? |
Pheen is a scientist from Under Okta, and her colleague Ultra Dash Star (Ultra-*) is a robot scientist-engineer. They are working together in the midst of a terrible crisis in their world: the Crescendo, a weird sonic phenomenon, is causing physical destruction and mental distress in Under Okta, and scientists are struggling to find a solution.
What is your favourite part of the world you created? |
Rona – the enormous bubble that contains the city and the hoops that drone racers fly through.
Tara – the noises in the metal world Pheen visited.
What were the best sounds you recorded? |
Tara – the noises we recorded on the tram.
Rona – biscuit tins rolling on the ground
Is there anything else you want people to know? |
It features some barking from our dog Izzy! We got some ideas of names from BBC Scotland bitesize education programmes we watched in lockdown, eg. Okta is how you measure cloud cover, and Ultra is from ultra violet light.
What are your names? | Jamal and Khiana
Where do you live? | Edinburgh.
Who are the characters is your stories? |
What is your favourite part of the world you created? |
What were the best sounds you recorded? |
Is there anything else you want people to know? |
Composer
Richy is a composer and sound artist who lives on the Isle of Skye. He works collaboratively to think about collective sounds, usually working with artists and community groups to make and think about sound through films, exhibitions and radio.
You can see more of his work here – www.richycarey.com
Producers
Khadea is an artist and producer living in Edinburgh, exploring histories and storytelling through the use of creative workshops collaboratively with groups, as a way to encourage space for self-exploration centred on lived experience.
How we met
Wild Tracks began when Richy was invited by Katie and Khadea to create a week of sound art workshops with young people from Edinburgh Young Carers for Collective – a centre for contemporary art based in the old observatory on Calton Hill in Edinburgh, as part of Collectives young people’s programme.
The workshop week was due to take place in real life, but when the COVID pandemic hit and we all went into lockdown – we instead met up once a week or so to play sound recording and story writing games, resulting in our pilot episodes – Under Okta in Peril and Water Walkers.
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