Music πΆ
At the heart of it all, at the bottom of it all, below the tech, below the theory, behind all the work is play – I am a musician.
Forest Bed | Placeholders EP
I’m really happy to announce that my band Forest Bed’s first EP; Placeholders is now available on Bandcamp!
That’s Right
Time just seems to be slipping out from under me whilst I feel like I’m slowing down. I can’t belive it’s nearly September, christ.
Future Music
I am fixated on the vocal static. I hear at the edges the AI-anna Grande model unspooling into pure material waveform. This is future music.
Tipping It Down
I played a gig today under a tiny gazebo that wasn’t exactly the most comprehensive of shelters.
Other Acts
My band played its first gig on Friday at one of Leo Food’s Supper Clubs.
Slow And Sad
Playing slow and sad means there is no a lot of room to hide when you play a wrong note.
Yeah, That Badge I Wear
Further to yesterdays podcast on the “Friend to All Nations” tragedy. I’ve been shelpping a bag of assorted 1″ buttons from a gig 13 years ago.
A Different Type Of Doom
In honour of Salem’s first album release for a decade. I wrote about Witch House. Where it was back then and where it’s gone.
The Past Is A Foreign Country; They Do Things Heavier There.
I’m fortunate that I can share a gig I went to 10 years ago with you.
Forest Bed
I joined a band back in January. A slow sad country band called ‘Forest Bed’. We were supposed to play our first gig on Wednesday the 15th April.
Filling The Gap
It’s remarkable how being in a band thats practicing regularly has shored me up in some ways.
Fracking Whitney
Last weeks podcast was about ‘cultural fracking’ and how the purveyors and controllers of mass media culture can only continue to make money by fracking the past. Content from a time when mass culture still existed. As their business model relies on their audience being inside a shared reality or shared cultural grammar. When I…
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