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Category Archives: Sounds of Spaces and Places
Two Spectral Trees – Somewhere North of Devilla Forest
Looking up to the ridge, over the evergreen crowns, two spectral trees hang mid-air in the limpid heat. A smoke spiral, all coiled movement, settles to stillness as a Rorschach blot of charcoal smudge bleeds into sun saturated blue. The universe … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Observation, Poetry, Psychogeography, Sounds of Spaces and Places
Tagged Banquo, Big Black Cat Sightings, Bordie Moor, Boundaries, Charles Olson, Culross, Devilla Forest, Drystane Dyke, Fife, Fife Psychogeography, Kincardine, Macbeth, Meith Stone, Owl, psychogeography, Scots Pine, Spectral Tees, Standard Stone, Terminalia, Walter Benjamin, Witches
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(Always) Between Something and Nothing
The white centre … is both an emptiness and an energy generator. Your eye is continually drawn back to its white silence, its void-ness. Then your attention is propelled out again along the twisting road-ways. The eye cycles back and … Continue reading
Posted in Observation, Psychogeography, Sounds of Spaces and Places
Tagged Birdsong, Byers Road, Glasgow, John Cage, Kay Larson, Kelvingrove Park, M8, Mistle Thrush, Motorway flyover, Motorway traffic, Richard Kostelanetz, Robert Rauschenberg, Song Thrush, The Void, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage Zen Buddhism and the Inner Life of Artists
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On experiencing a live performance of Morton Feldman’s Coptic Light
At the Edinburgh International Festival. Saturday 1st September, 2012. Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by David Robertson. ◊ A sounded weave ‘pedals’ on spectral slubs of small differences. Time’s flow, slows, to stasis a colour field revealed, in asymmetries of … Continue reading
4’33″ on a train – John Cage Centennial, 5th September 2012
Our modest contribution to the John Cage centennial celebrations. On 5th September 2012, we decided to undertake a performance of 4’33″on the train from Falkirk High to Glasgow Queen Street. Raising and lowering the seat tray served to mark the … Continue reading
s i l e n t l y .. b e i n g .. s i l e n t
silently being silent ~ being silent silently . Now playing: Eliane Radigue – Transamorem – Transmortem
Posted in Field Trip, Observation, Poetry, Sounds of Spaces and Places
Tagged Arran, being-in-the-world, Holy Isle, poetry, Silence, Silent
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Sounds of Spaces and Places – Week ending 26th February 2012 CE
I hint of filigree, a thread of presence folds into darkness. Like draped silk, a whisper of air folds into silence. there…/…not there. II Sounds like Ed Blackwell, and Max Roach are gi’en it laldy in the park’s municipal bin. … Continue reading
Levitate the Crags!
One of the most direct ways to immerse yourself in Fife’s liminal energies is to walk the Coastal Path. Out on the edge at the intersection of land and sea is always a receptive place to be. However, for the … Continue reading
Posted in Field Trip, Happenstance, Poetry, Psychogeography, Sounds of Spaces and Places
Tagged Arthur's Seat, Ballardian, Burntisland, Daniel Defoe, Deep Time, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Riviera, ExxonMobil, Fife, Heartland Institute, Inverkeithing, James Hutton, Kinghorn, Liminal, Lochgelly, Lynchian, Naomi Oreskes, Pettycur Bay, psychogeography, Rimbaud, Salisbury Crags, Theory of the Earth
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Sounds of Spaces and Places – Week ending 29th January 2012 CE
I Piercing cry high in the sky… Gone Flecks of crimson, cloud smears. Chill air cups the face. II Low growl of wind worries the bins Lids yapping like pack dogs. III Over there, fingers, da dah dah dat … Continue reading
Sounds of Spaces and Places – Week ending 15th January 2012 CE
I ‘Unexpected item in the bagging area, please remove item before continuing.’ Does every barcode scanned, capture part of the human soul? II Ship’s horns sounding on The Firth of Forth, make me think, of Julia Holter’s Tragedy. III Ice … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Sounds of Spaces and Places
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