Now into my fiftieth year (thirty two of which chasing elusive sonic dreamings…) I have at different times arrived at the realisation that it is possible to intend our listening experiences in life to cross a threshold towards hearing everything as part of an ongoing song of occurences. I think composer, musicians and theorist Pauline […]
Sometimes a song can catch you in a moment, striking a deep chord, as if speaking to you from the most profound truth or reality that you could encounter in that moment. So it has been for me recently with this stunning composition from Beth Gibbons (Floating On A Moment – below) which was released […]
Recently came across this excellent recording from 2005 of Slint playing their song Don, Aman live (video below). I’ve written before about Slint and the 2014 documentary Breadcrumb Trail by Lance Bangs that charts their formation and the production of their stunning 1991 album Spiderland, following which they (mostly) disbanded. After finishing that piece I […]
Whilst writing a piece about Beth Gibbons’ stunning 2024 song Floating On A Moment, this excellent concert video came my way (below). I was told about The 3rd Symphony by Henryck Gorecki (1933-2010) in the early 2000’s and was immediately spell bound. An astonishing modern classical piece composed in 1976 whose defining rendition has been […]
When I saw this piece recently, on a wall by a canal near Victoria Park in East London, it certainly stood out. Nestled among the usual pile up of signatures and tags, the wood for the trees of graffiti – it stood out immediately. So striking with it’s three colours and the beautifully striated striping […]
London The Song, London The Poem I ended up getting more than bargained for recently while revisiting this special song ‘London’ (Above) by Sparklehorse. Introduced to me in 1995 by a friend at University when it was released as a b-side. I’ve kind of orbited Sparklehorse in the intervening years, hearing some delights but for whatever […]
The impact of the collaborative work between Mark Fisher and Justin Barton, specifically their audio essay ‘On Vanishing Land’ (released on Hyperdub imprint Flatlines in 2019) has been a slow but powerful permeation (more of which below) – which has led to a renewed focus and interest in their first work of this kind, londonunderlondon […]
This young man was in Kennington Park in south London while I was taking a lunch break there and I enjoyed this shot as it came through, the moment in which he is facing in one direction while looking in another, as if a momentary consideration of different directions. Nicely framed by the large tree […]
The Walls of Perception While recently taking in the lovely 2012 song ‘Lazuli‘ (above) from dreamy Baltimore-sprung synth-pop artists Beach House (Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally) I began to think more about the video directed by Allen Cordell. Along with the song’s beautiful, cascading background-sadness affect, the video quickly establishes itself as being of both […]
Most of us come across the odd meme or video of an extraordinary feat culled from Parkour. Adrift in the seas of algorithmic imagery, it has become an accepted cultural wallpaper of the sublime. Feats of quasi-sorceric accomplishment on the part of human bodies, invested mostly among the unyielding vertiges of the modern conurbation. Looping among […]
Having recently re-watched the deep evolution of story in the Expanse over its six seasons it is hard not to feel that there was (and is) something special at work in this adaptation. Initially cancelled by Syfy channel after three gradually ramped up seasons – it was rescued by Amazon for three more before its […]
There are many reasons to have real reservations and concerns as human beings rush headlong and with maximum speed, the creation and ongoing development of AI, while integrating them more quickly and thoroughly into every aspect of our lives. It is a development that promises more in the direction of its already hugely divisive and controversial […]
As a birthday present towards the end of last year Folders Arrangements drew this image for me with ink on card, he indicated it had been inspired from drawings I had done previously. It was true that I felt a kindship with the drawing immediately. It was interesting to get back something that I felt I […]
Looking through some photo’s recently and it occurred to me that some of them could be defined in terms of the idea of the line, incurring transformation in the frame, or otherwise differentiating a space, relationships, forms. The photo below is what crystalised this idea. I was walking during a lunch break and couldn’t believe […]
I recently found myself going back to songs from the second album by Smashing Pumpkins, 1993’s Siamese Dream and two songs in particular, Hummer (live – above) and Mayonaise (below). Over the last few years I’ve returned to a lot of the music I listened to in the 90’s as I moved through the experiences […]
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