Powerlines (Loavgavvári) is a 55 minute composition in which a series of sound devices were deployed on the slopes below Loavgavvári / Fløya near the city of Romssa / Tromsø some 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle to generate field recordings that are left largely unprocessed (apart occasional EQ and layering one recording over…… Continue reading “Powerlines”
Category: Fieldwork
Q&A at Atelier Nord
An enjoyable time at Oslo’s Atelier Nord for an in-conversation with Alexander Rishaug on December 4.
Non Mountain
Non Mountain is a collaboration with Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall where the two tracks on a 10″ vinyl and the 84 pages of a book explore mappings of real and imaginary journeys to high places in text, sound and photographic images – and the ways all these can come together and fall apart. A…… Continue reading Non Mountain
Radiophrenia
Really pleased that Simon James’ and my hour-long composition “Flux and Phantoms,” part of our South of Shoreham Shore project was broadcast during the Radiophrenia Festival on August 26 at 1600. One part of our work was transmitted on FM in Glasgow area, DAB where Resonance Extra is available and online elsewhere, with another dimension…… Continue reading Radiophrenia
“Like Trees In A Wrong Forest”
An essay exploring how an interleaving of the idea of a ‘forest commons’ with glimpses of the arboreal thoughts of Yoko Ono, Luce Irigaray and Macarena Gómez-Barris (among others) might provide a frame for the Acoustic Commons project and its Autumn 2022 festival. You can read the essay here. It is an honour to be…… Continue reading “Like Trees In A Wrong Forest”
“Into The Outside” Again
“Into the Outside” a film by Chiara Caterina and myself which was commissioned by Liminaria in 2015 and received a Special Mention at the Swedenborg Film Festival 2016 is being rescreened as part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Interzona (the umbrella organisation sheltering Liminaria and other cultural agencies).
“A Dog at the Edge of Things”
A compilation of 21 years of ‘field notes,’ gathered from various projects, published by JOAN with wonderful blurbs from Suzanne Walsh and Gareth Evans. Leaning over the bed, I tilt and shake my shoes, wary that the mate of the centipede killed yesterday could still be at large. I head from the guesthouse down the…… Continue reading “A Dog at the Edge of Things”
“Meters”
A series of field notes from the archives for the Gruenrekorder publication called, er, “Field Notes,” edited by Daniel Knef and Lasse-Marc Riek. The photograph is one of Robin Silas Christian’s for the Makina Books release of “Night Blooms.”
“Sixty Stories, Six Thousand Miles Apart”
A chapter in “Fieldwork for Future Ecologies: Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research,” published by Onomatopee, designed by Paul Mylecharane of Public Office and edited by Sam Nightingale, Polly Stanton and the amazing Bridget Crone, who passed away shortly after publication and for whom the book becomes an eloquent testimony.