January 31st, 2025

I have a new release, alkaline, over on Bandcamp. These are fairly raw sounds from experimental processes carried out using small electric motors and other generators, resonating and containing vessels and different microphones. These materials will form the core of live electroacoustic performances. But above and beyond these small sounds which are more a documentation of processes than fully fledged compositions I'm more interested in the performance side of this, how to move around inside a space, relate to the sound, objects and people in it.

For the artwork I tried something new and made some prints at Georgie Fay's excellent Print Club in the Hub. Georgie guided the group through the different stages of mono printing and collagraph then left us to it. There are several beautiful aspects to printing that I'd never appreciated apart from the lush sensation of holding a print in your hands. You don't need to be an illustrator, you can keep overprinting and making small adjustments ie. you can be as experimental as you like, and best of all you never know how things are going to turn out. I'm delighted to now have a small bundle of prints that I can scan and transform in the digital domain to make artwork for albums and posters.