As well as undertaking numerous live performances across the 1960s and ‘70s, Greenham also featured in a number of radio broadcasts on the BBC, KPFA & KPFK (USA), Radio France, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Zürich, NCRV (Netherlands), Madrid and elsewhere. Across this period Greenham was engaged actively in communicating her work and ideas, an attitude perhaps best summarised in her text Art and Communication (1965), where she wrote that ‘communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source-point across a distance to receit-point, with the INTENTION of bringing into being at the receit-point a duplication of what emanated from the source-point.’

Included above is an unreleased half-hour performance by Lily Greenham recorded at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, France, on 1 December 1976, that was broadcast on Radio France. An 18 minute sequence of Greenham’s sound poetry – including Ability, Focus Hocus Pocus, Outsider, Tillid, Capital, and Underground – is followed by the tape playback of Relativity. What’s notable is the amount of energy, charisma, and clarity with which she performs these pieces, often segueing from one into the next, as well as improvising at certain points.