Trouble in Paradise #4 w/ Teplice & Floral Notes 09.01.2024

This episode of Trouble in Paradise features an experimental collage of aural history entitled ‘Leaving Teplice’.

Featuring an interview with Lisa Finden, recorded a few years before her death in 2019, the piece uses music, sound and speech to render personal memories of family, homeland and evacuation.

Detailing a 1930s childhood as the daughter of Jewish communists in the German-speaking Sudetenland of Czechoslovakia, Lisa offers a nine-year old’s perspective on the German invasion of 1938-9; the fateful breach that caused her family to flee their hometown of Teplice, first to Prague and then to England.

Produced by Matilda Jones (Teplice), this sound-collage foregrounds the family heritage that inspired her artistic alias. The original interview was recorded b...

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