I am a composer, singer, oral historian and radio artist, exploring how relationships are formed and behave through music, speech and transmission.
My research takes a systems-based approach to reviewing the use of automation in radio broadcasting and how it can be rethought to address voice poverty and media polarisation, by learning from radio art, cybernetics and experimental music. This includes the operation and design of Skylark, a licensed, automated radio station for Dartmoor National Park that plays an algorithmically generated, continuous sound piece, made up of sounds captured within its broadcast range. Dartmoor residents and visitors are invited to submit their own recordings at any time.
Selected work
Writing
Chapters in Transtechnology Research Reader, available at https://www.trans-techresearch.net/publications/transtechnology-research-reader/
- Sets and Syntony: Rethinking Radioing (2024)
- Technologies of Encirclement: Time and Transmission (2024)
- Being on Somebody’s Wavelength: A Conversation with Sarah Washington (2024)
- Mutability and Musicality in Community Radio (2022)
- Feedback: A Conversation with Knut Aufermann (2021)
Two chapters in Radio Art Zone, Washington, S. (ed.) (2023) Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH.
- Some Questions for Community Radio
- Radio as Lived Experience
Talking Innovation: Listening and Amplifying Community Voices in Flood Risk Management in Journal of Flood Risk Management, with Kate Baker, Sarah Ward, Alice Armstrong, Eleanor Lanyon http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jfr3.70204
Book reviews for Leonardo Journal, MIT Press, available at https://leonardo.info/reviews-archive
- The Sounds of Lost Futures by Jamie Sexton
- Pierre Schaeffer and the Ethics of Experimental Music Research by Patrick Valiquet
- The Museum of Imaginary Musical Instruments by Deidre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson
- Slow Technology Reader by Carolyn F. Strauss, Editor
- Piano Decompositions by Heidi Hart and Beate Schirrmacher
- A Revolution in Music by Évelyne Gayou
- How the Dust Falls by Izumi Kimura and Gerry Hemingway
- Cuckoo by Cynthia Chris
- A History of Fireworks by John Withington
- Performing by the Book by Bruno Forment
Radio
Der Feentempel, April 2026
Radio Opera for Westdeutsche Rundfunk, based on Robert Herrick’s poem The Fairy Temple, translated by Tarcisius Schelbert https://www.ardsounds.de/episode/urn:ard:episode:10db8467524d2b2f/
Hags and Heartbreak, Spring 2025
Sound collage produced in residency at the Klangendum Studio, Worm, Rotterdam, from poetry by Robert Herrick. Broadcast on Concertzender in the Netherlands. https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/dr_klangendum_827855/
Everynothing, Spring 2023
Drama using homophones between German and English, commissioned by WDR3. https://www1.wdr.de/radio/wdr3/programm/sendungen/wdr3-studio-akustische-kunst/lucinda-guy-everynothing-poetik-translinguistischer-homophonie-100.html
Would you Adam and Eve it, November 2022
Drama with original music, produced at the Klangendum Studio, Worm, Rotterdam with Catherine Guy. Broadcast on Concertzender. https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/dr_klangendum_689552/
Skylark extract, commissioned by Radio Art Zone as part of Luxemburg capital of culture, 2022
https://radioart.zone/thursday-11-august
Blue Heart 2022 – with Alice Armstrong. An overview of how water behaves in and around Eastbourne and south Wealdon. https://soundartradio.org.uk/stellaria-media/blue-heart/
Futures on Air 2020-2025 – with Alice Armstrong
Documentary series, communicating research through participatory media. https://soundartradio.org.uk/stellaria-media/futures-on-air/
Space Audacity 2019
Radio drama produced from a workshop at Radiocamp, Bodensee, May 2019. Broadcast on the Radia network
http://radia.fm/2019/09/show-753-space-audacity-by-soundart-radio/
Plugholes 2019.Radio drama produced at WORM Sound Studio, Rotterdam in collaboration with Catherine Guy
https://www.concertzender.nl/programma/dr_klangendum_484552/
A Song for Europe 2017
Live improvisation on Kunstradio, ORF1 (Austria)
http://www.kunstradio.at/2017A/02_04_17.htm
Radio Revolten Festival 2016.International radio art festival in Halle (Saale), Germany. Workshops, broadcasts and a participatory closing ritual for the festival, involving mobile broadcast, folk song, costume and mobile phones.
http://radiorevolten.net/en/lucinda-guy/
Glusstar 2013.Radio collage of music heard in dreams and the poetry of Christina Rosetti, commissioned by WDR, Germany
An Island in the Moon 2013.Adaptation of William Blake’s ‘An Island in the Moon’ produced during a residency at Klangendum studio, Worm, Rotterdam. Broadcast on Concertzender (Netherlands)
Apples of the A38 2012. Commissioned by BBC Devon, researching the provenance of the apple trees in the roadside verges.http://soundartradio.org.uk/programmes/apples-of-the-a38/
Swimming in the Stream ongoing. Experimental radio series and performance practice looping through radio transmissions and live streams
Somewhere Else 2004. Children’s radio series for Resonance FM
Sound Installation
Moor Stories, 2024. Oral history recordings and multi speaker sound installation at Moor Imagination Centre, Buckfastleigh, telling the stories of the building’s former use as a Methodist Church. Funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. https://www.moorimagination.org/community-engagement-projects/moor-stories
St Leonards Tower, 2023.Recordings of the clock mechanisms and local resident’s experiences of time, installed in St Leonards Tower, Newton Abbot, throughout 2023. Commissioned by Newton Abbot Museum
High Cross House Living Memories 2013. Commissioned by the National Trust http://www.soundartradio.org.uk/high-cross-house-living-memories