Category: Field notes

They Live by Lamp Light

A short essay and drawings in “They Live by Lamplight: Psychogeography for New Energy Vampires,” a zine edited by Justin Hopper with contributions from Tom Bolton, Jamie Cross, Gair Dunlop, Jez riley French, Laura Grace Ford, Lucy Greeves, Justin Hopper, David Knight, Asher Levitas, Pheobe riley Law, Hana Loftus, Stefan Musgrove, Foster Neville, Sonia Overall,…… Continue reading They Live by Lamp Light

EMF Listening

Speaking at the Electromagnetic Fields: Artistic Research and Radio Waves radio symposium organised by Hannah Kemp-Welch, Anna Clock and Lia Mazzari. I was speaking in the Audible Infrastructures panel with Claire Fitch and Emiddio Vasquez and was playing a selection of radio intercepts and electromagnetic listening from 2011 – 2022 and then a further sample…… Continue reading EMF Listening

OTO Gig

A very rare live performance for me at the Café OTO gig celebrating 20 years of our CRiSAP research centre. I must only have done 10 or so gigs ever, most memorable having been Decoys at Iklectik, the Resonance FM Big Band at Duke of Yorks Cinema, the Biscuit Factory in Beaconsfield, a theatre at…… Continue reading OTO Gig

Props for a Sky Mirror Bureau

Exhibiting the mixed media assemblage “Props for a Sky Mirror Bureau” as part of “dew- mist- cloud- fog-” at the Marine Workshops Newhaven. “Props for a Sky Mirror” features “a journal, embroidered patch, photographs, neon hoops, hand-drawn GPS routes, OS Map excerpt, video loop on iPad (4:44), field recordings on radios (6:17), calendar, chalk rocks…… Continue reading Props for a Sky Mirror Bureau

Zawawa: Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa

Delighted to report that Zawawa – a book by Kozo Hiramatsu, Rupert Cox and me – is published by Archive Books. The book is part of ongoing research. The book is a bilingual Eng/JP presentation with fantastic translations by Asako Murakami. Included are longer discussions with Katsu Kabira and Seijin Yogi – who both survived…… Continue reading Zawawa: Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa

Arctic Anti-Radio

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…… Continue reading Arctic Anti-Radio

A Cormorant

The Autumn issue of Robin Boothroyd’s Aswirl magazine published my “A Cormorant” poem. Aswirl is “a quarterly poetry zine celebrating brevity. It was founded in autumn 2022 as a home for short, minimal and concrete poetry. Small, humble and with a tactile nature, the publication emphasises the intimate and champions the miniature. Because small things…… Continue reading A Cormorant

“A Dog” review

A great essay in the Glasgow Review of Books about “A Dog at the Edge of Things,” the review makes connections that I had always really wanted someone to notice after all these years plying the 100-word trade (!) but also suggests other completely unanticipated associations that both surprise and delight. What Berridge says about…… Continue reading “A Dog” review