A Day Out West featured in 0014 Survey for Classwar Karaoke

Classwar Karaoke is a brilliant netlabel-collective which features sound art, music, field recordings, and short films. They do quarterly surveys and the list of contributors is really staggering. Here is their website which features info on the latest survey. I did a short film for the survey-check it out below and spend some time with the other works.

Here is a link to the music.
Enjoy!

Kandala Records on Bandcamp

Kandala Records, based in Taiwan, has a really nice Bandcamp page here-You can listen to Afternoon Traces if you like, but there is a number of other discs by very innovative sound artists also available to listen to or download. The new generation of sound artists in Taiwan are creating a unique sound culture which I find very compelling.

Framework Radio

I recorded the intro for this week’s Framework Radio’s program. The program airs on Resonance FM in London at 10 pm on Sunday. This is really a treat! There is also a field recording along with the intro. From the Framework website:
–framework began broadcasting in june, 2002 on the newly reformed resonance 104.4fm in london. the show now airs on 5 radio stations around the world, with more to follow soon, and streams and podcasts here on it’s own website. framework is consecrated to field-recording and it’s use in composition, and began broadcasting at a time when a new community of sound artists with a special interest in found sound was developing, a community spread across the world that, thanks to the internet, was no longer limited to a specific geography. framework sees itself as an outlet for this ever-growing and developing community, a folk-tool in a new folk movement, a community driven exchange point for creators and listeners alike.
Here is a link to Resonace FM-
Here is a link to Framework’s website-
I will provide more links soon. The program, like all of their programs, is incredibly diverse and captivating. Enjoy!

China stills Shanghai 5-12

Shanghai is dense, overwhelming city for the senses …Since 2008 I have collected quite a number of field recordings and images there. Some of the field recordings have made their way on my discs, but I still have many more to release hopefully. The film/video part is another story. I have two films that deal directly with Shanghai G7034and Suzhou/Shanghai but I have always wanted to do more. At the moment, I have a number of projects that don’t deal directly with the city, but I think that may change soon . Above are images that date back to 2008 and 2009-expect more in the near future.

A few notes on Reading Dream Within A Dream

Author, Filmmaker, and Musician Robert Robertson is going to be giving a number of lectures on Sergei Eisenstein next month at the BFI in London. Most of these lectures will be centered around his book, Eisenstein and the Audiovisual which I mentioned  a few months ago. Fortunately for me he is going to be screening Reading Dream Within A Dream-not sure what lecture yet, but I am pretty thrilled. He asked me to compile the location shots for the actual film to discuss during the lecture-so I thought I might as well post them here too. More on this exciting event soon-

Bamboo and Trees(dusk)- location: Maryland-

Moon(night)-super 8 film-location:Paris, France

Rain on window -melting trees(afternoon) -location: Maryland

Pacific Ocean shots-Pine Trees(afternoon)-Location-Washington

Blowing Sand on the beach(morning): Location-Delaware

Lights from the Night Bridge(night)-Super 8 film-San Francisco

Photographer near a lake(morning)- super 8 film-Vermont

Small Plane flying overhead and dipping foot in a creek(dusk)-Super 8 film -Maryland

Fire shots(night)-super 8 film-Maryland

Lilacs(morning)-Super 8 film-Maryland

Pacific Ocean and Pine Trees(afternoon)-Washington

All the sounds were recorded in the Alençon Public Library in France-This was intentional. I wanted to make an aural connection between Baudelaire and Poe.