Wait Till I Tell Ye! Strategies for mapping with voice, text and sound

The paper details the rationale for the development of John D’Arcy and HIVE Choir’s site-specific song-making methods, introducing a number of projects including Moving Song, On the Move, Word of Mouth and Wait Till I Tell Ye. The talk focuses on Wait Till I Tell Ye, a site-specific performance at Ulster Folk Museum as a creative response to the Tape Recorded Survey, an oral history archive held by the National Museums Northern Ireland.

This includes the processes of investigation (sonically and semantically) of the original TRS word list; the use of Irish traditional lyric and melody, and some questions around how creative practice may offer ways to critique certain aspects of the original methodology of the TRS, such as gender bias and other socio-economic assumptions and implications.