The actual title suggested to the publication was Sound, Territory and Reconciliation: the Consequence of A Hundred Year Divorce. However, … More
Category: Music / Sound
Music, Madness and the Unworking of Language
There is a particular line in John T Hamiliton’s 2008 book, Music, Madness and the Unworking of Language that some … More
Holistic Synesthesia
The console in the studio is a loosely assembled still life composition comprising paints, palettes, Nurofen packets, spectacles cases, lithium … More
It’s About Time It’s About Space
This takes the form of a recipe. It will begin with a series of brief, unconnected observations, then allow, through … More
The Landscape Outside
I wrote a leisurely little sketch piece recently proposing that with the birth of recording (occurring in the very short … More
Setting Sounds – Wayward Music and Imagined Space in the Age of Recording
Before recording, music was ordered sound in space and place. There was no isolation. It was there alive before you … More
In Pursuit of Silence
In response to viewing a trailer for the film, In Pursuit of Silence http://youtu.be/64c_1MtQUlM There are reasons to be concerned … More
Experimental Music Is Music That Does Not Work
The following can be filed as commuter scribbling *** Technology was once described as something that nearly works. Perhaps the … More
A Score In Land
In preparing many of the compositions for World Fair, I have adopted multiple solutions to capture and fix time, place … More
Recall: Sound Present And Past
For some time I have been aware that listening back on my own recording work elicits a kind of feeling … More