Shell to your ear, hold — and listen for the ocean, or is it something else? Stretching across a table, the voices carry. Take a step, listen for the rain. Board at the platform and miss your stop. Keep a score and take notes. The referee blows the whistle; we must be quiet — it is time to go.

Shhh is brought together through a collaborative recording day and later woven together with found sound and music to produce an immersive sonic landscape. The sound work is punctuated with recorded chatter and discussion from the recording booth, a gesture to what can occur through collaboration. The broadcast is based on a series of texts, each at varying points in their process. They are experiments in overlaps, thresholds, and skirting around the edges. Objects appear and reappear in different voices, whilst sounds clatter and whistle through adjacent rooms. This is a translation of text to sound.

With work from Will Farmer, Esther Hesketh, Maisie Wills, Emma Mortimer, Toby Üpson, Beth Emsden, and Sophia Kelly-Keegan.

Shhh will be broadcast as part of Radiophrenia’s open call programme in September 2026.