ODDS & SODS
Award winning Director, Writer and Historian Lil Warren and Sound Designer Yvonne Gilbert (both from the East End) create podcasts that include drama, documentaries and soundscapes in addition to interviews and chats with people from backgrounds as diverse as Opera singers, ex-offenders, models, fighters, plumbers, activists and boaters.
ODDS & SODS
Undercurrent
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An audio installation created for Revoluton Arts by Lil Warren and Yvonne Gilbert with research by Susie Warren and SHANKSY.
An artistic response to the River Lea from its source in Leagrave in Bedfordshire to where it meets the Thames in Bow in East London.
Undercurrent blends oral histories, archived recordings, found sound and sound collected on location along the river. All woven together and first exhibited as part of a Lil Warren installation at Marsh Farm in Leagrave, combining audio, live sound and music with 2D and 3D art works.
Voices: Glenn Jenkins, Lorinda Chambers, Fahim Qureshi, Lil Warren, Kat Wysocka, Luis Rojo, Reverend Luke Larner, Susan Warren, Lindsey Hood and signposting by Sarah J Warren
The complete Oral Histories collected by the Undercurrent project can be found here.
https://www.revolutonarts.com/project/undercurrent-digital-archive/river-lea/
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