Radio broadcast about Station Stories the imminent and unique writing project taking place at Manchester Piccadilly station. Download the broadcast here. Station Stories features new work by Jenn Ashworth, Tom Fletcher, David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, Nicholas Royle and Peter Wild.
The images accompanying the work of the six writer participating in Station Stories at Manchester Piccadilly station on 19th – 21st May are now on display in the lightboxes situatated on the Metrolink platform. Click the image above (accompanying Nicholas Royle’s The Lancashire Fusilier) to read more about the Station Stories project.
THE EXPERIENCE
Station Stories is a unique site specific live literature promenade event using digital technology and live improvised electronic sound. From platform to platform, café to café and shop to shop, six writers take you on a tour of Piccadilly station and read specially commissioned stories inspired by the station and the people who use it and work there. It’s a unique live literature promenade performance featuring live improvised sounds using samples of ambient station noises as they happen.
Station Stories will explore the day-to-day life of the station – its platforms, its workers, the journeys people take, the waiting, the encounters, the thrill, the loneliness, the joy. It will express the peculiar, unique qualities of this marginal, in-between world, where anything can happen and often does.
HOW IT WORKS
Audiences are linked to the writer’s microphones by headsets using wireless technology, making the event unobtrusive and ensuring the audience hear every single word, whilst still experiencing the live ambience of the location. A musician accompanies the writers and improvises music using sampled live sounds from the station, manipulating these sounds and playing them into the audience’s headsets between and underneath the text. The writers interact with passing members of the public who may be unaware that a performance is taking place.
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Tom Jenks and others are performing at this exciting looking event. Follow the link to book tickets.
Manchester Literature Festival is delighted to be working with the Hamilton Project and Bury Text Festival on Station Stories – a unique site specific live literature promenade event using digital technology and live improvised electronic sound. From platform to platform, café to café and shop to shop, six writers (Jenn Ashworth, Tom Fletcher, David Gaffney, Tom Jenks, Nicholas Royle and Peter Wild) take you on a creative trip of Piccadilly station and read specially commissioned stories inspired by the station and the people who use it and work there.
Audiences are linked to the writers’ microphones by headsets using wireless technology, ensuring they hear every single word, whilst still experiencing the live ambience of the location. Take a journey into this marginal, in-between world, where anything can happen and often does.
Thursday 19th May – Saturday 21st May 2011 (performances at 12noon, 3pm and 7pm)
Manchester Piccadilly Train Station
Tickets £11 book on:
otherroom.org 