Twelfth episode of “Shadows of the Unseen” for movement_radio Athens. Aired 28th November 2021. 1. Excerpts from The American Dreamer (M. Kit Carson, Lawrence Schiller, 1971) 2. Jonathan Bepler, Séance (From Cremaster 2, Matthew Barney, 1999) 3. Andrew Kötting, Oliver Cherer, Riz Maslen, Soundings (From The Whalebone Box, Andrew Kötting, 2019) 4. Clint Mansell, In … Continue reading Shadows of The Unseen / Movement Radio 12
Here’s the fifth installment of the “Shadows of the Unseen” series of cinematic mixtapes. This one includes some obscure film soundtracks by the likes of Bebe and Louis Barron, Philippe Arthuys and Ivo Malec, Barre Phillips and John Surman, Martin Cooper and David Hughes, and many more. While Bebe and Louis Barron are rightly celebrated for … Continue reading Shadows of the Unseen (5)
In these Corona stricken times I have been enjoying compiling some mixtapes based on sound and music originally made for, related to, or part of cinematic works. I have particularly, but hardly exclusively, been delving into the work of – in desperate lack of a better word – “leftfield” composers and sound artists related to … Continue reading Shadows of the Unseen 1 – 4
The archive is often thought of as a forgotten repository of faded documents and dusty objects: it is an image of and from the past, a mundane picture whose identity is slowly transforming into a dynamic, digitally coloured notion of storage and memory. The archive, as an innovative concept, need not embody the past as … Continue reading ARGOS OPEN ARCHIVE
31 October 2012, Beursschouwburg, Brussels., in the context of the ‘I Fail Good’ project. In collaboration with Courtisane. “A seriousness that fails”: this is how Susan Sontag described the essence of “camp”, this transient mixture of excess, fantasy, passion and naivety that has taken up a distinctive place in the cultural firmament since the 1960’s. … Continue reading Glorious Catastrophes