It was as unexpected as it was exciting to read Bandcamps’s Best Field Recordings of 2024 and spot my “Powerlines” LP included on the list. “Powerlines,” which relates to the collaborative Arctic Auditories research project, is not an easy work so I’m particularly grateful to Andrew Weathers and Cody Yantis of Rural Situationism for having…… Continue reading Bandcamp Field Recordings 2024
Category: Fieldwork
SOAS Talk
It was great to be invited by Luigi Monteanni to present a Music Research Seminar about my work to the PhD students at SOAS.
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
“Powerlines”
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”
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”