Free Range is proud to present a live version of the Goodwin Sands Radiogram!

The Goodwin Sands Radiogram is a beautifully crafted documentary podcast about the lives of people from a small corner of the British Isles made by sound artist Ben Horner.

The Goodwin Sands itself is a treacherous 10-mile-long sandbank that lies off the coastal town of Deal. More than 2,000 ships are thought to have been wrecked on this constantly shifting obstruction in the straits of Dover.

Part ethnography and part radio art experiment, the Goodwin Sands Radiogram was conceived in August 2014 and began broadcasting on 25th January 2016. This evening’s performance is a live version of the podcast with creator Ben Horner, narrator Peter Kelly and musicians Tom Jackson (clarinets) and Sam Bailey (piano). A collage of interviews with local people will be threaded through improvised music and evocative field recordings. Expect a curious, honest and funny celebration of place and people in all their idiosyncratic detail.

Also! The opening set tonight will feature the extraordinary composer and bass player Chris Williams. Describing himself as a wayfarer on the body-mind continuum, Chris' work runs the gamut from chamber music, improvisation, and radio art to collaborations with dancers, sound artists, and visual artists. He has worked with Derek Bailey and LaMonte Young’s Theatre of Eternal Music and he runs the KONTRAKLANG series of concerts in Berlin.