#ARTEETUDE 346 - Detlef Schlich and his Co-Host Sophia carry their exploration of vibration, memory and reception across the Atlantic to Cape Clear Island — Oileán Chléire. The episode also looks ahead to the WAW Keep Clear Tour 2026, beginning at Club Chléire on Wednesday, 12 August, with Schlich and Dirk Schlömer.
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Following The Skin That Listens, Detlef and Sophia carry their exploration of vibration, memory and reception across the Atlantic to Cape Clear Island — Oileán Chléire.
An island has no ears, yet it continuously receives: waves, weather, footsteps, languages, stories, warnings and songs.
In this episode, Cape Clear becomes a living archive. Its ancient stone markings, oral traditions and maritime signals reveal how places preserve traces even when their original meanings have been partially lost.
A former lighthouse once transmitted a warning from the island’s highest cliffs, but mist often prevented the signal from being seen. That contradiction becomes the philosophical centre of the episode:
A lighthouse says: Keep clear.
A story says: Come closer.
The episode also looks ahead to the WAW Keep Clear Tour 2026, beginning at Club Chléire on Wednesday, 12 August, with Detlef Schlich and Dirk Schlömer—Detlef’s “better WAW half.”
WAW reached No. 1 in Neil Quinn’s Cork Playlist last year and No. 2 this year. Their new song, When the Tide Knocks at Your Door, receives its spoken-word premiere in the podcast before being performed musically for the first time on Cape Clear.
The closing track by Los Inorgánicos, After the Signal, remains deliberately atmospheric:
The listeners receive the words first.
The island receives the music.
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