Artist statement: ‘Echoing quack’ provides a unique perspective into an alternative universe where audio makers ask bigger questions — some are even up to two paragraphs long. Listeners are both challenged and comforted by the blending of the natural and the imagined. The vision is sharp but the impact unravels gently, as time, emotion and intellect dance. Listeners are left with something both challenging and comforting, I realise I already mentioned this but I thought I’d emphasise it.

Echoing quack is a collaboration between Natalie Kestecher and Mike Williams. 

More about Natalie Kestecher: write and produces audio features, fiction, documentaries and combinations of the above. She’s currently writing a fictive memoir. More work by Natalie here, here, here, and here. She’s also on Twitter.

Natalie also runs a text and audio project called Strange and Beautiful Things with Masako Fukui. 

The piece was made for Constellations: a sound art and experimental narrative collective. If this episode wasn’t weird enough, it also features another piece intercut with it from artist Yardain Amron. Listen here.