I started editing roughcuts together, still not knowing how the story was going to unfold. As I did that, I vaguely thought that maybe I could get this on TV late at night or as an internet download or a DVD or something like that. So I got some new equipment and taught myself how to use it, and loaded the footage to edit on my computer. So I thought, well the key is really to do it myself, because of the intimate relationship I have with the place, and I need to shoot it myself. As I looked at that footage, I thought ‘this is kind of cool, maybe I need to hire a professional cinematographer to come and get some better footage.’ And I spend a few hours with a camera woman, who was great, but I look back at the footage and although it was nicely framed and focused and lit, it had lost the confessional quality which my iphone footage had. I started initially just taking shots of the lighthouse with my iphone and sort of mumbling thoughts into the mic. Thomas Dolby: I’d just finished my album ‘A Map Of The Floating City ’ and when I found out that this lighthouse right near my studio, which I’ve known since I was a kid, was going to close down I felt compelled to document this in some way. What inspired you to create this film? Were you planning all along to take it on tour like this? In a phone interview, Dolby discussed “The Invisible Lighthouse,” as well his career in general. Performances consist of Dolby performing a live soundtrack and narration as the film plays, with Blake Leyh doing live sound design and effects. The endeavor evolved into “The Invisible Lighthouse,” a transmedia event that Dolby is taking out on the road. A lack of cooperation from local authorities meant this entailed going out to the island on an inflatable boat and using a remote control drone camera for aerial shots. Located at the tip of an off-limits ex-military island, the lighthouse was about to close, prompting Dolby to get out and document it. Having returned to Suffolk, England after spending over 15 years in Silicon Valley, Thomas Dolby found inspiration in a lighthouse that was part of his childhood memories. Thomas Dolby interviewed about "The Invisible Lighthouse" Including a very hard to find LIVE CD, i guess that was sold on that tour. In 2013, there was a huge multimedia tour, and film for 'the invisible lighthouse', The result seemed to fit in with the GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS ethos, and made for a nice little SW radio-driven sequence on side two. But I had second thoughts about it after listening to the album in toto and decided it was too 'rockist.' About the same time the opportunity came up for me to work with Daniel Miller (Depeche Mode's producer and supremo of Mute Records) plus Akiko Yano was in town! so I decided to take another crack at it. TD: "There are two very different renditions of 'Radio Silence.' I originally recorded it with the same rock band as had played on many other GOLDEN AGE OF WIRELESS tracks: Kevin Armstrong, Justin Hildreth, and Mark Heyward-Chaplin. Radio Silence 3.47 / Radio Silence (Version) 4.32 (Venice in Peril Records, VIPS 102) 25 March 1982 7" Thomas Dolby: Radio Silence
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