I’ve organised a Wire salon at Cafe Oto. Below is a short blurb (adapted from a small bite in a previous issue of the mag). I was going to use it for an accompanying reading list for the salon, but it didn’t seem necessary so it’s here now: Visual maps flatten out the world, radically [...]

Sound artist Susan Philipsz has been nominated for the Turner Prize this year . It reminded me that I shot some footage of an installation of hers at the ICA back in 2008. The Internationale was shown for two days at the ICA in central London off The Mall, a wide boulevard leading from Trafalgar [...]

Exclusive footage of Maja Ratkje and Kathy Hinde’s collaborative work, Birds And Traces. The composition was created during a week long residency at Aldeburgh Music as part of Faster Than Sound, a series of residencies set up to promote crossover between classical composers and artists working with electronic media. Inspired by the themes of bird [...]

Footage of Marina Rosenfeld’s composition Cannons, created specifically for the space at Aldeburgh Music’s Hoffman Building at Snape, Suffolk during a one week residency leading up to the performance. Cannons features a custom built sound system comprised of four large resonating ‘bass cannons’ made out of steel pipes fitted with subwoofers, along with two steel [...]

Footage of the Lucky Dragons hosting one of their collaborative Sumi Ink Clubs and subsequent (and also collaborative… or would you call it interactive?) performance at Auto Italia gallery in South East London. It’s almost a promotional video for Southwark Council!

Video footage of musician and artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s installation of electric guitars and zebra finches at London’s Barbican Curve gallery, 23 February – 23 May 2010. Shot with the kind help of Tim Ivison…

A short documentation of William Furlong’s exhibition Possibility & Impossibility Of Meaning at Laure Genillard, 2 Hanway Place, London until 9 April. The sound is fairly indistinct and messy until one gets closer to the roughly canvas-sized frames where the directional aspect of the voices can be properly heard. It’s impossible to find any kind [...]

“Radio Ear/Radio Pravda” by Dziga Vertov… It’s off ReR Megacorp‘s Baku: Symphony of Sirens CD and booklet release. The microphone becomes (like Vertov’s Kino-eye) a tool/weapon of investigation and documentation; what the ear cannot hear by itself, the microphone captures and archives…

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