This little

(2025)

20-minute vocal performance

‘This little’ is a live 20-minute vocal performance made for broadcast, sitting between storytelling and vocal improvisation. The narrator of ‘This little’ attempts to share a personal anecdote about a recent trip to an unfamiliar supermarket.

As the story gets caught up in minor details and minute interactions within the scene, the voice begins to fray the edges of its words through semantic failures, erupting with nonsensical riffs, and recasting the sound of words in the mouth.

‘This little’ pushes the affective capacities of a voice at a distance: at the end of the dial, and at the edge of meaning. Using the detached intimacy of a single microphone, much like a supermarket tannoy announcement, this live-to-air performance pursues a connection with the audience through humour and frustration, seeking its dénouement in the overlap of speech, song and silly little noises.

‘The little’ was performed live-to-air, broadcast on Radiophrenia on 10th April 2025, at 5pm.