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Radionics Radio Application v.1 Goes Live!
A radionic broadcasting instrument at the Science MuseumA small but distinguished audience bore witness to the first ever presentation of the fringe science of radionics at the Science Museum last...
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Radionics Radio at the Science Gallery: Thought Diffusion Experiments
This coming Tuesday - 7th October - there will take place a diffusion of 'thought frequencies' at the Science Gallery Pop-Up in Boland House, London Bridge. It forms part of the Radionics Radio...
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Using Radionics Radio - Sending in your Frequencies, and Avoiding 'Zero...
The Radionics Radio website began asking for your thought-frequencies in May. As documented previously, the project is a development of the groundbreaking electronic sound experiments of Delawarr...
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Fortean Times - May 2015 - Early Electronic Soundmaking (Trolling in the 1920s)
The BBC's anti-oscillation pamphletIt's not generally known that early valve radios were capable of producing electronic tones through the overuse of the volume dial (or 'reaction' dial). From the...
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Rose Keen and the Futurists
In June last year, myself and Ed Baxter produced the 'Art of Noises Centenary Souvenir Supplement' to accompany two concerts commemorating the Futurist Art of Noises at London's Coliseum in June 1914....
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Fortean Times - June 2016 - John Palfrey aka "James Bathurst" - Founder of...
June's Fortean Times (#341) contains my feature that unmasks the self-proclaimed Founder of Modernism "James Bathurst" - now identified as John Palfrey (1846-1921) - visionary author of...
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Further remarks on synchronicity and coincidence...
One of my research interests is in old anonymous literature and how digital archives may be used to uncover the names of those long-unknown authors. A few years ago Fortean Times published my exposé...
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Post-Electronic Music and Electromagnetic Force Fields at Hackoustic 2016
Yesterday I had the unexpected honour of giving the first presentation at the first ever Hackoustic Festival at the Machines Room, Hackney. Prestigious as it sounds, this scheduling was a rather a...
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Radionics Radio - 'An Album of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies' (Sub Rosa)
Radionics Radio's An Album of Musical Radionic Thought Frequencies is released this month on the wonderful Sub Rosa label, available either as a download, or as a CD (which is accompanied by a 20-page...
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Oscillatorial Binnage @ IKLECTIK - Tuesday 13th June 2017 - Post-Electronic...
Rustlings at the horizon: an Oscillatorial Binnage rehearsalFor those who may have forgotten, Oscillatorial Binnage is a London-based experimental improvisation group containing Fari Bradley, Toby...
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Organised Sound 22 - August 2017 - What are Failed Histories?
My situation is becoming unbearable. Faced with closed doors everywhere, the bleakness is gut-wrenching (and it's amazing how far guts can be wrenched). Everywhere, it seems, dilettantes are...
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OUT NOW! (15+ years in the making) Two New MEADOW HOUSE Records
New Meadow House records: 'Misadventures on the Scorn Cycle' and 'This should not be happening'These two new Meadow House LPs are OUT NOW! Together they form an anthology of very varied 'tapedropping'...
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The Wire #409 - Psyphonics: Further Listening
Coined by soundscape theorists Stuart Gage and Bernie Krause, the terms biophony, geophony and anthrophony have come to represent the complete range of sound-types audible within natural recordings...
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Meadow House 2LP 'tapedropping' anthology in Freq e-zine
Many thanks to Mr. Olivetti for writing such a generous and in-depth review of the two new limited edition Meadow House LPs for Freq. It can be read in full in the Freq - here.Meadow House LPs...
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Dead Air (The Wire #414)
The Wire #414 - a Minimalism special - contains my short history of broadcast radio silence (precursors to John Cage's unrealised 1948 plan to broadcast silence over the Muzak cable network). The...
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I Found a... Pipe
I thought it worthwhile to start some episodic blogposts in a series titled "I Found a...". Finding objects (and adapting them) is an enduring mainstay of 'miraculous agitations', post-electronic...
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A Postmodern Cut-Up Text from 1860: 'A Strange Composition' in The Brighton...
Old volumes of The Brighton Examiner are held only by the British Library. Most are 'restricted access' - their bindings are too fragile for readers to handle. None are yet digitised. Through...
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Excess all Areas - Explosives in Music (The Wire #427)
September's The Wire magazine is packed with essays on audio excess. The issue is the thematic inverse of last year's Minimalism special (to which I contributed a short text on silence broadcast over...
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Thwarted and Unthwarted Histories: Sound archaeology, and a digression on a...
This blog has a recurring theme of 'failed histories', i.e., forgotten stories that hang by the tiniest of threads discoverable only by meticulous scrounging. Last week I gave a talk covering some of...
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William English's 'Perfect Binding: Made in Leicester'
About a year ago, the filmmaker William English asked me, a sound designer, to be graphic designer for a book project he was planning. This was just one of many lateral decisions taken by William...
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