A pop-up radio station is offering Cork listeners ‘an ear to the Otherworld’
Here’s something you don’t hear every day.
Celebrating the longest day of the year, a pop-up community radio station will make its home at Test Site in the heart of Cork city this June, featuring a diverse programme of music, conversation, and audio theatre, broadcasting live from Cork city centre.
Created by local multidisciplinary artist Elinor O’Donovan, the recipient of the Jane Anne Rothwell Award for 2024, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2024, Radio Solstice offers “an ear to the Otherworld, receiving sounds from the ‘thin places’ where our world connects most closely with the world of dreams, the afterlife and the unseen”.
Taking inspiration from Irish folk tales, where a traveller on a country road follows sounds of revelry coming from a magic portal in a hill or a field only to discover the land of the Sídhe, Radio Solstice is a digital receiver to otherworldly frequencies, where things may go unseen – but not unheard.
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O’Donovan is working with DJ John Bosteels (Fleece) and musician Caoilian Sherlock (The Tan Jackets, Quarter Block Party) to deliver Radio Solstice, which aims to apply a visual art approach to audio programming.
You can listen live here from June 13th to 16th and June 20th to 23rd, 2024.
