Just a minute…can you show me this?… And that to?…and THAT….?.. I’m sorry I don’t like it.

A cup of tea, the light, the socket, the tap, a fork, a knife, a spoon, a plate, a glass, another chair, there’s no hot water, it’s too expensive, too big, too small – may I see the manager please – can you show me some more, where’s the gentleman’s convenience?

I’m hungry-during-I’m lost-and-it’s important perhaps-it’s urgent –very-not-hurry up!! There, it is-now none/it’s-soon-is it? Then it isn’t Ah/no/nothing at all. Is there– here there isn’t, there aren’t, right, there isn’t any,

I’d like a shampoo and set please

by Jon Panther

During the course of the previous year I found myself contemplating the hybridisation of performance and radiophonics (whatever radiophonics means) …. how would a marriage like this pan out….? The piece takes a lot of its materials from a gig mid last year at Metanast in Manchester UK care of the amazing Manoli Moriaty

Is it as disrespectful to record the sound of the temple gong as it feels to photograph the scene? And in the process, is it thus disrespectful to record the Russian tour guide, and the screaming child, and the power tool, and rustle of velcro from camera bags?

The syllable ‘spect’ within respect is the same as in spectate, spectacle.

Respectus via old French and thus Latin: the action of looking back. This implication of the seen within respect, does it let listening off the hook?

Is it simply that listening requires more time, requires a sense of being truly present, and that this offers more opportunity for connection, contemplation… or am I telling myself convenient truths, to excuse my aural ghoulishness, to separate myself from the tourists?

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Recorded in Ho Chi Minh City, Dalat, Halong Bay and Hanoi, Feb 2018.

Gail Priest a Katoomba/Sydney-based artist whose practice encompasses performance, recording, sound design for dance and theatre, installation, curation and writing. She has performed and exhibited nationally and internationally and has several CD releases on her own label, Metal Bitch, as well as other labels including Flaming Pines. She is also a curator of concerts and exhibitions and writes factually and fictively about sound and media arts. www.gailpriest.net