The Execution of Earl Magnus of Orkney An Audio Drama, 1993.
Loosely based upon chapters 46 to 51 of the Hermann Palsson and Paul Edwards translation of Orkneyinga Saga (Penguin 1981).
(31:41, stereo audio, 78.5 mb)
Cast: Liesbet Summers-Ewalts..(Maastricht)..Helga (Hakon’s concubine); Marshall Anderson..(Dundee)..Hakon (An Earl of Orkney); Magnús Pálsson..(London)..Egmond (The Narrator); Rod Summers..(Maastricht)..Magnus (Another Earl of Orkney); Sigurd (A trouble maker and sound poem); Tom Winter..(Hamburg)..God; Hubert Cuijpers..(Lyon)..Sighvat Sock (Sigurd’s brother); Lincoln Martine..(Maastricht)..Holdbodi (Awitness on Magnus’ side); Alan Doyle..(Maastricht)..Ofeig (Hakon’s standard bearer); Raven..(Hamburg)..Hlifolf (Hakon’s cook); Guest appearance by Josef Günther Kaspers
Recorded in Maastricht, London, Dundee, Hamburg, Lyon, and on location at Tentsmuir, Fife.
The master recordings were made with a portable DAT recorder and stereo one-point microphone on loan to VEC Audio from Hubert Cuijpers.
All recordings by Rod Summers except the ‘Cursing Armour’ sound poem which was recorded in Hamburg by Tom Winter and Rod Summers; and Sighvat’s voice which was recorded by its reader Hubert Cuijpers in Lyon. The audio drama was written and recorded from July to November 1993. ©VEC audio 1993, 1998
One.One Improvised music, Rod Summers and Tom Winter.
(10:23, stereo audio, 27.4 mb)
Rod Summers – tapes, keyboards, zither; Tom Winter – tapes, keyboards. ©VEC audio 1994, 1998
Even Parchment Crumbles, extracts from The Perpetual Saga An Audio Story, 1997.
(30.15, stereo audio, 75.0 mb)
Readers: Marshall Anderson, Alan Byrne, Ralph Gowan, Rod Summers, Tom Winter, and The VEC PC.
Recorded 1996 in Verwood, England; Dundee, Scotland; Hamburg, Germany; and Maastricht, Netherlands.
Analogue recording on a Sony WM6e with a one-point stereo microphone. ©VEC audio 1997, 1998