Things I have heard with my ears
Threads…
Felt like I was 10 yrs old and getting a request played on Radio Clyde – such was my excitement to make it onto Sara Barron & Geoff Lloyd’s podcast They Like to Watch… The episode features a good chat with Sarah Phelps, my ‘contribution’ is at about 46 mins in. Be warned, the topic is…
Read MoreHouse of Embers – Michelle Hannah @ GoMA
Michelle Hannah’s brilliant installation was on for 2 days only at GoMA last week. Filling the oval and galleries 2 & 4 with gothic futures, dusty particles of no more art. Booming and humming and throbbing and whispering near v. covetable post-apoxy bags for life and BR-ish boots on static, disembodied manoeuvres. It should’ve been…
Read MoreIt’s November 2019…finally!
And so Blade Runner is everywhere. Two of my favourite moments of BR in the media soup this month are: Stephen Collin’s strip for the Guardian last week – see it here and BBC3’s The Essay 2019: The Year of Blade Runner – particularly Episode 2, Frances Morgan’s Sounds of the Future Past. And here’s a…
Read MoreThe Last Bohemians
Everyone! Bend your ears around hilarious and revealing interviews with brilliant women with The Last Bohemians podcast. Pauline Black! Cosey Fanni Tutti! Bonnie Greer! Break-out star Molly Parkin (‘I wake up. Have sex. With myself.’)
Read MoreHen Ogledd – Mogic
Thanks to CS, I got along to Platform to see Hen Ogledd, my new favourite band, who like eye imagery as much as eye do (wink) and whose new LP Mogic is, like, totally that. I’m trying to use a lyric in my PhD write-up. Let’s see if I can squeeze it in… The tunes…
Read MoreSue Zuki & Amor LP launch at The Blue Arrow
Thanks to a Vernon tip off, I saw a great set by Sue Zuki. Listen to Boring af and more here, and be not bored. Sue was supporting Amor’s LP launch. Sinking into a Miracle had some early smooth, silky, yacht moments which were a little Beloved and a little Blue Nile. Phenomenal drumming – something…
Read MoreNigel Kneale
Thinking about the smooth and the rough, about the digital and the analogue and cutting things up has sent me down a Nigel Kneale route. Here’s a link to The Stone Tape (1972) – everyone raves but it’s too overwrought for me, and I like a bit of Bronte, as you know. Here’s a link…
Read MoreMy Life in the Bush of Ghosts – Byrne/Eno
This is what I’m listening to as I work today, after Cary Wolfe‘s essay on analogue/digital has got me all spectral, listening for crackle, needing some jerky texture… Listen to it here.
Read MoreTacita Dean @ the Fruitmarket
Great to see/hear Foley Artist at Dean’s show The Woman with the Red Hat when in Edinburgh the other week. But a poorly designed itinerary meant that I didn’t get to see Event for a Stage, so I’m not really able to comment on the show as a whole. Super sharp install of course, as ever (!)…
Read MoreLangham Research Centre – Muffled Cyphers (2014)
Thanks to CM’s continuing Support and Development Programme Dedicated to My Ears & to a Lesser Extent My Eyes (CM’s SDPDMYLEME, in its second year and still without Creative Scotland core funding like so many of our essential institutions making an impact on the ground), I’m watching, then listening to, then watching Langham Research Centre‘s…
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