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A queer sonic geography of Manchester

At Sonic Transformations —a joint event by MASSmcr and DVRK Arts Collective— my sound piece ‘A queer sonic geography of Manchester’ was presented. It comes with contributions by 
AminaB 
Dyphnos 
Gabriel Marques Camargo 
Gary Fisher
Hal 
Industries
kaoti 
Leah Wall 
Norrisette
PHIA SKY
Ryan Charles Jacob

The sound piece is composed of eleven different soundscape compositions by the research participants and me. We all went on soundwalks and recorded field recordings around the Gay Village area in Manchester. Each of us arranged their field recordings into soundscape compositions with the aim to sonically represent our individual relationships to Manchester from a queer perspective. I then took the stems of each soundscape composition and mixed them all up, creating a sonic collage inspired by Foucault’s notion of homosexuality cutting ‘slantwise [through] […] the social fabric’ (Foucault, 1994, p. 138). In doing so I queered the sonic geographies explored by the research participants and me. 

Foucault, M. (1994) ‘Friendship as a way of life,’ in Rabinow, P. (ed) Ethics: subjectivity and truth. New York: The New York Press, pp. 135—156.

Snippets of the sound piece are also included in MASSmcr’s Sonic Manifesto, listen below.

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FLUFF at this year’s Sounds From The Other City

We are thrilled to represent FLUFF stage at this year’ Sounds From The Other City festival at The Old Pint Pot (downstairs) on 4th May alongside stages across Chapel St and The Crescent in Salford. Except a variety of electronic music sets from Chaines, Industries, Zolatec, Norrisette, kaoti and Bennettiscoming. Tickets are selling fast, so get your tickets here and let’s celebrate Spring together this May bank holiday…

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Collage Cult

D∀RK and Collage Cult et alia present: /ˈkʌn(d)ʒə/ – an exhibition and event reflecting on collage art practice, and its ability to recontextualise old memories, conjure ghosts, and create stories for the future.

Venue: Ad England / P3 annihilation Eve

Exhibition: 12 – 20 March (check https://adengland.com/ for opening times and days)

Title: /ˈkʌn(d)ʒə/ : conjuring old memories to collage new narratives

Event: 20 March, 5-9pm

With artwork, talks, workshops and performances by:

Catherine Jack

Raji Salan

Clare Stott

Alice Thickett

Amy Quinn

Bing-Chi Wu

Sara Riccardi

Katie Chatburn

Industries / Markus Hetheier

D∀RK – Dark Arts Research Kollective

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FLUFF at SFTOC 2025

FLUFF at Sounds from the Other City 2025 🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩🐩

we’re bringing a hot lineup to the festival this year for you!!! 

4.May.2025 The Old Pint Pint Pot (downstairs)

featuring

Chaines
Industries
ZOLATEC
Norisette
kaoti
Bennettiscoming

see u there!!! 

x x x Anna & Markus x x x

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Randomised Structures EP launch

Thank you to everyone to my Randomised Structures EP launch at PINK.

Thank you Gary Fisher and Snuggle Ninja for playing wonderful live sets and creating a magical evening together.

Thank you High Peak Recordings for mastering my new music and to Keith Bloody Mary for producing and directing the music video for Sculpted Collage.

Links to the EP, the music video for Sculpted Collage and to Bandcamp where you can find new merch can be found here.

Photographs by Kate Byron, Clare Stent and me.

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New EP Randomised Structures out now!

Listen here and come down to the Randomised Structures EP launch at PINK Manchester tonight – get your tickets here.

Inspired by the patterns of the bathroom floor in his parents’ home when growing up and by his sister’s 90s mousepad which graces the cover, Industries’ new EP Randomised Structures finds the artist revisiting his first teenage electronic experiments. Like tracing the patterns of the bathroom floor, he is finding structures in two of his old tracks (Patterns and Scollage) using them as source material to craft new music (Pulsating Pattern and Sculpted Collage), randomising the structures of the past and integrating them into the present.

Written, produced and mixed by Markus Hetheier.
Mastered by Bon Holloway at High Peak Recordings.
Artwork by Markus Hetheier.

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Sculpted Collage (Music Video)

Here comes the music video for Sculpted Collage ahead of tomorrow’s release of Randomised Structures and the EP launch at PINK for which you can still buy tickets.

Thank you Keith Bloody Mary for being up for this experiment. I dissected an old track of mine called Scollage which I made when I was 16, cut it into many samples which I used as percussive elements over a simple techno beat and bit by bit I added layers to it, sculpting a sonic collage in a playful and associate way. Keith Bloody Mary also uses collage as artistic method, but this is their first music video and also my first music video created by someone else. We hope you enjoy.

This video contains flashing light.

Written, produced and mixed by Markus Hetheier.

Mastered by Bon Holloway at High Peak Recordings.

Music video by Keith Bloody Mary.