Tune into As if radio.. on the 1st of November from 9-10.20 am to listen to the unedited jam session for the A Walk EP by Nevsky Perspective and me. The jam will be part of a long ecological radio broadcast as part of COP26, Glasgow, 31st October – 12th November 2021. It will represent our lockdown walks and how to reconnect with our immediate surroundings through listening and music making. You will be listen to the broadcast live here.
PhD in process
I have not posted much about my practice-based PhD at the School of Digital Arts (SODA) within the Manchester Metropolitan University on here although you can see some updates on my socials. After my Summer break I came back to Manchester and set up my new studio space in the old Cornerhouse building. I also laid out my plan for Year 2 in which I will focus on exploring sonic practices (soundwalks, field record and electronic music), think about how to present the results through a digital soundmap and reflect on how this creative process expresses my relationship to Manchester through sound. This will feed into my work as electronic music producer and will therefore intersect with forthcoming music releases and mixes, so watch this space.
alto radio Sonic Journey #007
This Sonic Journey will take you through a rare minimal techno and jazz collab from Berlin to some local talent, with the likes of Space Afrika, Howes and Clemency – DJ, and further dive into the adventurous territories of left-field electronica…
Shout out to Antoin Lindsay who let me record this mix at his (I messed up my laptop after almost a decade without accident, but I got a new one now) — it was fun mixing vinyl and mp3s!
Pretty sneaky: B1
Space Afrika: yyyyyy2222O
jerime: Mansur’s Interlude
Clemency: Drum Circles Against Lamentation
Holly Herndon: Chorus
Huerco S.: Ragtime U.S.A. (Warning) – Antoin’s choice
Shinichi Atobe: Regret
Hodge & Randomer: Slipping
Howes: Overveen
Klein: Claim It (Intro)
Clemency: The Crude Foyer
Space Afrika: you or me
alto radio Sonic Journey #006
My Sonic Journeys show from July can be listened to here.
Reverie. A daydream. Percussion. Synths. Jazz. Trip Hop. Beats. Drifting. An impulse.
Bela Emerson: I jumped but I didn’t scream
Palace of Pleasure: Release The Pleasure
Broadcast: Echo’s Answer
Rainer Veil: FM2
Four Tet: Daughter
Current 93: Love’s Young Dream
Jonny Greenwood: Phantom Thread II
Megaton Shotblast: Rodche Defects
DJ Unknown Face: Dat’s Cool
Ballistic Brothers: Come On
Samon Kawamura: Morioka Sunset (JS Love)
Nightmares On Wax: Morse
Run-D.M.C.: Bob Your Head
New mix for Sprechen
I made a mix for Sprechen — a sonic journey through left-field electronica, from ambient to experimental to techno. Thank you Chris Massey who called the mix “without a doubt one of the most unique and original curations we’ve had in a long time”. Listen to the mix here and see the tracklist below. Artwork by Volker Schütz.
Untitled: Untitled
Patrick Cowley: Sea of China
Howes: Overveen
Palace of Pleasure: Paprika
raaz: YR
Matmos: You
Akufen: In Dog we Trust
Cong Burn: Flutter
Shuttle: Bigeye
Objekt: Theme from Q
Means&3rd: Monark’s Dream
alto radio Sonic Journey #005
My latest mix for alto radio is now available here.
Expect an eerie blend of vocals, found sounds from my sister’s friend’s hard drive from over 10 years ago, random song selections around the same BPM, merging folk, jazz, left-field electronica, trip hop and noise in an explorative and adventurous fashion.
These are the tracks played:
Mim Davies: No World but Here
Boards of Canada: Eagle in your Mind
Cath Coffey: Walk (Score Version)
Money Mark: All the People
Chinese Man Records: More
Eels Shootenanny!: Love of the Loveless
Spaces: Stable
Badly Drawn Boy: S.P.A.T.
Helena: Île Amoureuse
Oil Thief: Death Sieve
Faultline: I Only Know Myself
Chocolate Elvis: Tosca
Cornershop: State Troopers (Part I)
Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance
Spaces: Assembly
Ella Fitzgerald: I Love Paris
Angst4: In Gefahr (Industries Remix)
I made my first official remix for the great German post-punk band Angst4 and their song ‘In Gefahr’. I dissected all their stems and transformed them into an electromagnetic whirlwind of gloomy dangerous sounds. Enjoy the trip. Headphones recommended. Listen here. X
alto radio Sonic Journey #004
You can now listen back to my fourth mix for alto radio as part of my new Sonic Journeys show.
Voices, drones, beats, wild patterns, synthetic and organic instruments, electronica, jazz, lightness, melancholia, floating, longing, exploring…
Hope you enjoy.
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The are the tracks played:
Vashti Bunyan: Window Over the Bay
Boards of Canada: Hiscores
DJ Python: Pia
Doctor Rockit: How Do You Do?
Modeselektor: Concrete Jungle
Plaid: B Born Droid
Brian Eno and David Byrne: Come With Us
Rabit: Flesh Covers The Bone
Vessel: Drowned in Water and Light
Current 93: The Beautiful Dancing Dust
Afrodeutsche: The_Beginning
Matmos: Teen Paranormal Romance
Skee Mask: Cerroverb
Miles Davis: Le Petit Bal (Take 1)
Björk: I Dansi Med Per
Aphex Twin: ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{i}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[[n−1]]
Marvin Gaye: Inner City Blues
Soundpaths
Soundpaths is a project by Manchester based music charity Brighter Sound as part of SICK Festival‘s MINDSCAPES programme. It is a digital soundmap in the form of a running and walking app for residents of Moston and Harpurhey. Greater Manchester artists were invited to contribute site specific sounds to the soundtrack of the app which was composed by composer Yoni Collier. I sonically represented the Blue Bell pub through combining field recordings of the surrounding areas and a sound recording of an old Facebook video that shows guests of the pub singing together, merging the sonic present and past, evoking a sense of nostalgia. Follow this link to download and use the app.
Soundpaths soundscape composition
One off radio show for Reform Radio
I produced special one of show for Reform Radio presenting Manchester’s experimental electronic music producers: listen back here.
I start presenting my project and my most recent collaborative EP with Hervé also known as Nevsky Perspective – we conducted a sound walk interview in Alexandra Park which I will play to you. Other guests in this show are sound artist Gary Fisher, genre-bending electronic music producers PERiiSU, Iceboy Violet and Clay . This show will be a journey through field recordings, conversations, interviews, sounds, beats, ranging from abstract to danceable, from acoustic to synthetic. We will talk about sound art, electronic music, compositional and production strategies, the role of improvisation and all the exciting projects we are all involved in despite lockdown.