EPISODE SIX

As I left my flat to go to the radio studio, my neighbour fell down the stairs and injured himself badly. I waited as an ambulance was called and he was taken to hospital. I arrived too late to the scene of the accident to actually be helpful, as there were already lots of people caring for him, but I was carrying my bike down the stairs and there was no way that I push past and carry it over his collapsed body so that I could get to my local radio show on time. I felt a bit strange arriving to the studio late and underprepared.I think this show is fun to listen to tho. I mixed different youtube videos with Jazz and Ambient and Droney metal music. Also heard an unreleased EP from Manchild. And a great new track from Ebyan Rezgui!Me and Mariangela also read out some poems and stuff. It is an enjoyable show with mostly relaxing but some unexpected twists and turns.Produced by Mariangela

EPISODE FIVE

Some really nice music, I liked the mix of the first two tracks, I think that worked really well together. Some chill trad jazz, some dubby bits and pieces, Gorge music, Chapter 4 of BFALOTR, the EHFM rumour mill and local news segment. Much to enjoy.Produced by Sophia

EPISODE FOUR

This month featured a guest mix by Jah Shagger, who was inspired by the UB40 wikipedia page. There is a triptych of couuntry pop songs that will blow the liberal guilt out your butt. There is also a great report from Sister Hannah about her attendance at the Reveil dawn chorus radio event! Gordon Maloney reads a poem about a cow. I read a food review from Wharf Life magazine. And loads of great music in between.Prerecorded at Ogmog Towers

EPISODE THREE

This is a relaxing music-heavy episode. Some good playlisting from me and much less pissing about with the CDJs! However still some nuggets of ephemeral gold in there, such as Chapter 3 of BFALOTR, and a reading of 'Acting The Cat', which received 5 star reviews from 2 independent sets of cat owners who listened live!Produced by Sophia

EPISODE TWO

A relaxing show with lotst of lovely guitar music. I read Chapter Two of BFALOTR. We here a voice note of the day in the life of a dentist friend of mine, as she navigates life between the mundane chores, work pressures, ex-boyfriends, drugs... the works! Watch out near the end of the episode where I play 4 songs that all have the same name and all fit really nicely together. This will surely stand forever as the highlight of my DJing career.Produced by Eve

EPISODE ONE

Voice note from my dad about driving a payload of flies from Oxford to Glasgow, Flamenco, Some silly rapping, some serious rapping, a story from Camilla Grudova, the first chapter of an auto-fiction story by meProduced by Feena and Alice

Works in Progress are a group of musicians and DJs who love experimental sounds and want to create a space for them in Edinburgh. We take submissions from local artists and broadcast them on EHFM radio, and create live events for people to perform their weird and wonderful creations.I organise the tech side of things, logistics, doing the sound for live events, making the website. I've also helped with booking acts like Camilla Grudova and Tues.Click here to go to our website and find out more!

The WIP team!

A reverb plate that I have built for live performance and installation. Click play on the video below to listen to some different sounds through the reverb. It starts with a slow fade in - your speakers aren't broken!

The Object

Inspiration

I was first inspired by the Callanais standing stones when me and my brother and sister camped next to them in a trip to the Outer Hebrides in 2021. I love the shape of them and the amount of presence they have when you stand near them. I was then thinking about how you create some kind of sound object that would have this kind of powerful aura on stage.I had been messing around with making spring reverb and noiseboxes, and then came across this video:

I was then reading about plate reverbs and what different materials and designs do to the sound, and was thinking about how they always shaped as squares or rectangles. And then how you could create one with an irregular shape, and maybe that would make the sound irregular or smoother or more interesting in some way - maybe the reflections would be more varied, like in rooms with walls that aren't parallel. I think the physics behind this is probably dubious and speculative but that doesn't concern me!The idea of making this object was mulling around in my head for years and then finally in 2024 after some encouragement, in particular in the sheet from Alice, and the gift of a welding course from my Mum, I started to build it.....

For the first version I wired 2 contact mics and a surface transducer onto a cat6 cable. I used a cat6 4 channel analog audio converter box from Thomann, to split this into xlrs and speaker cable to connect the transducer to an amp, and the mics to a mixer. However this wasnt perfect and really only to test it all out. The video above is of that setup, with the transducer on the frame. The cabling isn't properly tied down, the contact mics are wired directly to the mixer preamps, which won't work for longer cable run.For the second Iteration of the wiring, I am building a DI box into the system, so that the mics are ok being sent over longer cable distance. This is built into an IP box so that the system is (at least slightly) weather resistant, for outdoor use. I am also working on making a new speaker which excites the plate directly, instead of the transducer on the frame. I am also going to insert a graphic EQ into the signal chain after the preamp. This means that I will have EQ control of both the input and output of the plate.Future things I want to do is to make the different elements detachable, so I can change out mics and speakers easily, and make it more transportable in a safe way. Also means the plate can be detached for cleaning. I also want to have a midi controllable solenoids on the frame so I can use it as a percussion instrument.

Wiring

Ellen ER

Embassy Gallery held a closing show before moving to a new gallery space. It was called 'Your Very Own Solo Show'. Mariangela and I devised a durational performance where we moaned into microphones whilst a 5 minute video of me walking really slowly on Strava played, framed by some of the internet's finest alpha males. It was great fun and well received by all. The name of our troupe is 'Ellen ER'. We were inspired by the train company of the same name.Friday 25th July 2025