The essay “Arctic Anti-Radio” was published in Urbanomic’s Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method, edited by Justin Barton, Steve Goodman and Maya B. Kronik.
There are some fantastic contributors to this collection, people I’ve long-admired and who I’m excited to be published alongside. My own essay explores the processes and contexts involved in creating the Powerlines CD for Rural Situationism.
An extract from Mark Leahy’s review in Leonardo gives a flavour of scope of volume as a whole:
In the essay by Angus Carlyle the spaces of the Norwegian sub-arctic regions are intertwined with the spaces of Glenn Gould’s radio work, and the constructed audio spaces of digitally edited material, dance floors and the academic study intersect in Matt Colquhoun’s essay. The places associated with the three audio essays at the centre of this project, are marginal, liminal, provisional, unstable, whether the rapidly eroding coast of East Anglia, a failed Scottish colonial project in Panama, contemporary developments of spaceports in Shetland, an abandoned shopping centre in Berlin, or digitally constructed worlds. There are other in-between places that are crossed in the essays through the book, the skies over Lebanon, the Atlantic of the slave trade’s middle passage, the zones of the aurora borealis, these variously connect to projects of recording, of documenting, of listening, as noises, signals, and voices emerge from them.”