between twiceness and thriceness: a conversation on collaborative making

For CAMP’s Online Talks Series, Shelley Hodgson and I will present a performative conversation that examines our work together over the past two years. Resulting in a performance, a radio show and a public conversation, our collaboration has generated material, raised questions, and prompted reflection.

In our zoom conversation for CAMP, from two locations, Shelley and I will focus on questions of collaboration. Talking about how we have found a way to work together, how we make work that is jointly developed. Discussing how we use strategies of scores, timing, and our different skills, to make work that feels properly collaborative. A lot of this depends on trust, on communication, and on being OK with things that don’t ‘work’. We will use flash cards, some recorded sound, a dictaphone, and there will be sonic interruptions and obscure gestures.

The event will be accessible live online on Tuesday 8th April 2025 at 1830hrs via the CAMP Mighty Network.

thriceness for The Convivial on 6th February

‘What shall we call it?’ for First Spark

review of Sonic Faction now online

My review of Sonic Faction: Audio Essay as Medium and Method is now live at Leonardo Reviews. The review will be included in print in Leonardo 58.2 (due for publication in February 2025).

Sonic Faction was a pair of events, one held at Iklectik in London (July 2022) and one at KARST in Plymouth (February 2023), where three works were presented for collective listening, along with a public discussion and an installation of related material. The three pieces were: Mark Fisher and Justin Barton’s On Vanishing Land (2006), Steve Goodman’s Astro-Darien (2021) and Robin Mackay’s By the North Sea (2022). This book takes on several tasks, operating as a catalogue for or record of the events, offering an expanded commentary on the works presented and giving significant detail on the conception, making and presentation of these. The book also functions as a primer or a means toward defining or describing a genre – the audio essay – situating it in historic, artistic, critical, theoretical contexts. In pursuit of this, the book brings together a selection of essays that describe or demonstrate the audio essay as a medium and as an approach to making art. Bringing together writing by artists, theorists, publishers, broadcasters the mix of perspectives and modes of involvement with the audio essay results in an array of textual riches, supplemented by a comprehensive playlist on YouTube.

Some thoughts on Social Making 2024