Inventions For Radio

=SoundFjord=
SoundFjord is a creative venture specialising in the production, curation, exhibition and promotion of sound, trans-media art and related research and practice. In 2013, SoundFjord unshackled itself from its North London studio and became a fully-fledged nomadic concern. Unfettered by the specificity of a single space, location or architecture, SoundFjord’s work is now to be found online, on air and in situ at a variety of places. www.soundfjord.org
=David Prior=
David Prior is a composer and sound artist with a particular interest in the relationship between sound and space.  His work spans compositions for acoustic instruments, live electronics and fixed media as well as radio programmes, sound installations and sound walks. Since 2003 most of David’s work in the area of sound art and exhibition sound design has been carried out through liminal (www.liminal.org.uk), while his musical output is released under his own name or through his two collaborative music projects, Derailer (with John Matthias) and Arcades (with Dugal McKinnon). Additionally, David continues to work as a producer and sound mixer for music and film projects and is a member of the film and music collective4waylab.
David’s music has been performed around Europe and North America in contexts including ISCM World Music Days, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, International Computer Music Conference, Sonic Arts Network Expos and the State of the Nation Festival, to name but a few. His work has won a number of international competitions including Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, Cornelius Cardew Prize, E.A.R (Hungarian Radio), the George Butterworth prize and a PRS Foundation ATOM award. www.davidprior.org
"Underground" 
Underground (dir. David Prior, Liminal 2013) is a radio adaptation of a multi-channel sound installation made for the Heartlands tin mining museum in Pool, Cornwall. The original installation is spread across seven rooms in two separate buildings, each space covering a specific theme relating to mining in Cornwall. Underground is an expanded programme based on the material presented a room dedicated to the experiences of the miners who worked in and beneath the buildings where the exhibition is now located. The piece combines spoken testimony, oral history archives and field recordings and treads a delicate line between documentary and soundscape composition.
Underground is based on interviews and field recordings made by David Prior for Heartlands, along with extracts taken from existing oral history archives made for the Geevor tin mine museum and the Mineral Tramways project.
For further information on the project, please visit www.liminal.org.uk/underground
Acknowledgements:
Interviews with Robin Boon, John Dungey, Kingsley Rickard and Richard Williams recorded by Lawrence Holmes for the Mineral Tramways Oral History project. With thanks to Azook (www.azook.org.uk). Interviews with Alec Nippard, Harry Trembath recorded for the Geevor Oral History Archive. With thanks to Geevor Tin Mine Museum (www.geevor.com). Interviews with Cyril Honey, Peter Hughes, Mark Kaczmarek, Mike Osman, Kingsley Rickard and Colin Short recorded by David Prior for Heartlands. Site recordings made at Geevor mine, Holman Test Mine, Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Morwellham Quay Mine, Rosevale Mine, Tolgus Tin and the Performance Centre at University College Falmouth.
Special thanks: To Nick Thomas and Cyril Honey at Geevor, Gus Williams and Mark Kaczmarek at Camborne School of Mines, Claire White and Tim Robbins at Azook, Rick Stewart at Morwellham Quay, Adam Sharpe at Rosevale Mine and Alan Barnes from the Falmouth Shout.
About the Image:
(c) Hayley Saull. Used with permission.