Bad Timing/The Alchemical Landscape: The Other Side
Thursday 12th May 2016
Venue: Judith E Wilson Studio, Faculty of English
Category: Gigs & Live Music
One Liner: tapes/Beats/traces
Price Info: tbc
Time Info: 7:30-10:30pm
Bad Timing and The Alchemical Landscape present
The Other Side: An Audiophonic Séance
Howlround
Documents -- new project by English Heretic
James Riley & Evie Salmon: 'Dust'
bad timing djs
mix tapes: experiments from the underground
Howlround is an ongoing exploration of the possibilities of magnetic tape as a creative medium for electronic music. Their live performances and compositions are created entirely by manipulating tape loops of natural acoustic sounds on vintage reel-to-reel machines, with additional reverb or electronic effects strictly forbidden. Their fourth LP Tales From the Black Tangle was released at the end of 2015 and was a dark and compelling concoction of industrial sirens, foghorns, seawash, ship to shore distress signals and even the creaking of a Broadcasting House microphone cradle in need of some oil.
'Uncanny, mesmerising, difficult and sublime' The Quietus
Documents is a nascent development of the long running creative occult project English Heretic. Documents has been set up to explore a remit of ethnographic recordings from the imaginal world. Combining the aesthetic of Bataille's surrealist journal "Documents" with the hermetic psychology of James Hillman, the project represents a deepening of the themes laid out by English Heretic. Documents first broadcast was released on the Eighth Climate imprint in December 2015.
Documents will perform two pieces. "Music For The Execution Of Geoffrey Firmin" An imaginary séance for the tragic protagonist of Malcolm Lowry's "Under The Volcano" abstracting dialogue from the film adaptation of Lowry's book to achieve rapport the spectre of Firmin. "Last Broadcast at Boleskine" manipulates field recordings taken at the cemetery overlooked by Aleister Crowley's notorious Loch Ness home. These recordings, carried out on the 1st December 2015, anniversary of Crowley's death, shortly before Boleskine House burned down, constitute music to precipitate the violent demise of an abode on the borderland. Together these piece explore landscape, film and documentary dialogue as a form of theatrical EVP.
http://www.english-heretic.org.uk/EighthClimate/
Evie Salmon and James Riley 'Dust': A speculative investigation into the afterlife of two lost recordings by Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs. Spoken word, archival murmurings and dead formats.
Evie Salmon and James Riley work across multiple faculties at the University of Cambridge. They co-direct The Alchemcial Landscape, an ongoing research and public engagement project looking at occulture and geography.
http://residual-noise.blogspot.co.uk/
http://thealchemicallandscape.blogspot.co.uk/
bad timing djs
mix tapes: experiments from the underground
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