An experiment for this nice sunny weekend.
Tuppenceworth Podcast Prototype: El Greco at the National Gallery of Ireland
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I’ve run up a prototype podcast. Taking out the hard part of coming up with something to say, I recycled my essay on El Greco’s St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata, which hangs in the National Gallery of Ireland.
I did have an idea for a radio programme a few years back which would take either a single picture, or a theme running through a few pictures and discuss them briefly. In theory, you could then walk around the gallery with your own audio tour, agreeing or disagreeing with the choices and ideas of the talkers.
I’ve a few other pictures researched, with the next aiming to be a piece on the colourful history of “The Opening of the Sixth Seal” which always facinated me as a child.
But I’d also like other people to join in the fun. If you have a picture you can write about 4-5 minutes on, and would like to share your opinions or experiences with other visitors, why not get in touch at smcgarr AT tuppenceworth.ie. I’ll try and look after the nasty technical side, if you don’t want to. Though as you can hear from my first go out, I can’t promise perfection.
And of course, like tuppenceworth itself, there’s no reason why we couldn’t have podcasts on any other topic. So let me know if you have a non-art related idea as well.
Special thanks to Colm, who loaned me all the gear.
UPDATE: My choice of jazzy theme music has been domestically scorned as ‘the kind of thing you’d hear on City Channel’. This, I suppose, is called listener feedback. If you’d like to ‘write the theme tune, sing the theme tune’, please let me know at the above email address.
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I was at an exhibition by a Canadian artist (whose name I’ve forgotten), and part of her work were audio recordings she made on routes – around streets, parks and whatnot. For her work she mostly talked about her feelings at the time as aside from imparting any great factual information, but I thought it was a great idea and I was surprised no-one I could think of had done it before. It could be an idea for a podcast, if you could walk around the museum and not disturb other people by talking 😉
I think you can walk around the National Gallery at any stage muttering and just be one of the usual visitors. I certainly have.
Send me your recordings of what you think of any picture and I’ll include them in the next episode.
That includes any photographs in the National Library collection, by the way.