Really proud the Leiden Essay Film Festival is screening Rupert Cox’s and my 2015 film “Cave Mouth and Giant Voice” inspired by the Okinawan war memories of Yogi-san (pictured above and below at meetings in 2010 and 2013). The film centres on two listening experiences – walking with fisher people across an ino (lagoon) at end…… Continue reading “Cave Mouth” in Leiden
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Radio, Radio
Two different broadcasts. The first broadcast was a rough and ready collection of audio recordings from Gruve 7 mine in Svalbard. The day after my second day in the mine trip, Mort Drew played a longer selection of my recordings on “Signals Radio – transnational forms of resistance in mining communities” as part of the…… Continue reading Radio, 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
“Waves Finding the Shore (Tokashiku)”
Very pleased to have a new work in the Listening for Traces exhibition at Rizq Art Initiative (RAi) in Abu Dhabi. The show was curated by Cathy Lane and I’m in the company of some extraordinary artists showing works resonating with sound, conflict, memory: Abdullah Al Othman (KSA), Asma Ghanem (Palestine), Alexia Webster (South Africa), Christopher Marianetti…… Continue reading “Waves Finding the Shore (Tokashiku)”
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
Pot Luck
Simon James and I were invited to Blast Theory in Shoreham to talk about our South of Shoreham Shore project. We each chose three images to provide snapshots of past, present and future activities and following Simon’s lead, I went way back – to 2002 where I DJ’d for 25 hours as we traveled in…… Continue reading Pot Luck