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
Category: Writing
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
“How To Put on Weight”
I was very pleased to have been commissioned by Galerie Silvestre in Madrid to write a essay for Rebecca Glover’s The Foley Studio. Glover’s show ran from February 2nd to March 27th, 2024 and, as its title suggests, the beautifully composed installation of objects, sounds and diagrams explores the practice of foley within wider contexts. My essay…… Continue reading “How To Put on Weight”
“Fire Spell Against Hate”
In 2024, “The Smell of Apples” was republished alongside “Fire Spell Against Hate” (another text sampled from many different English Ovid translations) in (C)ovid’s Metamorphoses, a project directed by Bernd Herzogenrath and Lasse-Marc Riek and released in a sumptuous edition with a quite extraordinary list of contributors. A small selection of the artists involved in the text and sound sections…… Continue reading “Fire Spell Against Hate”
“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
“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”
“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.