Sound artists Zoë Irvine and Mark Vernon, in collaboration with Glasgow designers Freight, present Hairwaves, an audio journey from the fringes of radio to the cutting edge of sound art.

Hairwaves is a commissioned sound art CD, featuring recordings of staff from Freight Design and The Bridge Advertising in Glasgow, wig makers, pet groomers, a psychic barber, hairdressers and hair establishments in Dundee, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Scotland; Montreal, Canada; Habas, France; and Salvador, Brazil, made between 2001 – 2006.

Hairwaves FM - 87.7fm, Glasgow, Fri 8th Dec, 12 noon – 5pm

To celebrate the launch of the CD, Hairwaves FM, a special
one-day Glasgow radio station devoted to hair, will be on air
on Friday 8th December 2006 from 12 noon to 5pm. Based at Glasgow’s CCA, it features music, interviews, cut-ups and clips, soundworks in various colours and lengths are combined to give you the lowdown on highlights, the bald facts on barbers and the naked truth about streaks. There's something for everyone, from the carefully coiffured to the bedraggled bed-head.