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Return of Fisher/Barton’s londonunderlondon after 20 years

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 […]

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Explorations in Video – Solar Violet (& Mark Fisher)

As I noted here, it took an improbable 8 years for me to record and finish the album ‘Blade of Earth‘ which was posted to Bandcamp in 2021. As my love of music has been influenced by so many incredible artists and styles of song (and sound), the album needed to reflect that variety and […]

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‘You only have a lifetime to escape…’ Barton and Fisher in online exhibition – Infinite Distance

https://infinitedistance.site/justin-barton-and-mark-fisher The release by Huperdub imprint Flat Lines of On Vanishing Land in 2019 marked a moment when the basic material of this extraordinary journey through sonic geo-connective intensities in sound and tale became routinely available. Giving the opportunity for the invaluable work in compositional re-attunement which Fisher and Barton had undertaken to disseminate that […]

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On Vanishing Land – To materialise

Hyperdub sub-label Flatlines to release Fisher and Barton’s Audio essay / sonic fiction I’ve mentioned On Vanishing Land a few times, not least recently in the piece that began with Will Abberley’s BBC Radio 3 documentary about the eerie, which features excerpts from the 45 minute sound work. Originally staged as an exhibition at the […]

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eerie calls the future

Last month here in the UK, BBC Radio 3 broadcast a feature documentary on the subject of the eerie by ‘New Generation thinker’ Will Abberley and produced by Sarah Cuddon. Sunday Feature: Into the Eerie (no embed) If you can get this, its worth a listen. While not going into or consistently following the deeper […]