Earlids and brainlids: on thoughts and sounds
“’Can one think without speaking?’ – And what is thinking? Well, don’t you ever think? Can’t you observe yourself and see what is going on? It should be simple. You don’t have to wait for it as for an...
View ArticleSilence is white, not golden
Sight and hearing are arguably the two most powerful human senses with which we understand and navigate through our world – whether it is the simple relationship between a green flashing man, and an...
View ArticleLondon Sprawl
Sprawl has set the tone and the scene for sound innovation in London for the past 10 years creating a space for experiencing it as an art form rather than as an excuse to socialize. Sprawl is an artist...
View ArticleThe moon is down
Ten years ago the nation’s computers were full to bursting with typefaces, in complete contrast to an earlier period where you would have been fortunate to gain access to one of them. To have a...
View ArticleThe extra ear of the Other: on listening to Stelarc
The ear, as Jacques Derrida poignantly observes, is uncanny: it is double in more than one sense. First of all, it is always that of the other (ear). The ear can also be open and closed at the same...
View ArticleWhite (cube) noise
Sound has an amorphous quality about it that when coupled with the word ‘art’ presents a very real and immediate problem in terms of presentation in a gallery space. In its pure, unfiltered form sound...
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