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THE EVOLVING WEB PRESENCE OF LAWRENCE ENGLISH. HAPPY NEW YEAR, IT'S 2012, YEAR OF THE DRAGON
TWO PHOTOS FROM MY WORK ‘IN ABSENTIA’ FOR THE DEAD FINGERS TALK EXHIBITION IN HONOUR OF MR WILLIAM BURROUGHS, LONDON IMT GALLERY 2010
I just completed a piece on Sound Art and specifically Field Recording for Art World in China (I’m thinking piece this will eventually find its way to these pages). It was an epic feat of editing to say the very least. One of the cut snippets is below. A metaphoric mediation on sound art.
“It can be argued Sound Art, as an art form, suffers a blurry perhaps even indescribable boundary. It’s this ill-defined, edgelessness that has contributed to a vagary around the art form and which practises fall into its canon.
In many respects Sound Art could be thought of as a delta; a floodplain of practise, fed by many tributaries of sound and musical activity. Cagian philosophies, European 19th and 20th music traditions, installation practice, musique concréte, radiophonics, cinema, kinetic sculpture, popular electronics, generative computer technologies and other creative occupations flow freely into the floodplain, creating a fertile, yet unsettled landscape over which navigation can be difficult, even for the most experienced of travellers.
The terrain is constantly shifting, sand bars of activity appear and are overlaid in a matter of years and the convolutions of connectivity between the singular elements creating this Sound Art delta appear treacherous and often frustratingly temporal. Understanding this though opens a wonderful sense of possibility about these disparate sonorous pursuits.”
George Edward Gouraud to Thomas Edison…
“I can only say that I am astonished and somewhat terrified at the result of this evening’s experiments: astonished at the wonderful power you have developed, and terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music may be put on record forever. But all the same I think it is the most wonderful thing that I have ever experienced, and I congratulate you with all my heart on this wonderful discovery.”
THIS IS YOUR GOLD WATCH, IN VIDEO
THESE SOUNDS SAVED ME IN AIRPORTS, ON PLANES AND OTHER MODES OF TRANSPORT THIS YEAR (THANKS TO YOU ALL)
POPUL VUH - THE WERNER HERZOG SOUNDTRACKS BOXSET
JIM O ROURKE OLD NEWS VOL 5
GROUPER - A | A
TIM HECKER - RAVEDEATH 1972
JOHN CHANTLER - THE LUMINOUS GROUND
THE BEACH BOYS - SMILE SESSIONS 2011
STEVE RODEN - PROXIMITIES
VAN DYKE PARKS - ARRANGEMENTS VOL. 1
STEPHAN MATHIEU - A STATIC PLACE
CHRIS WATSON - EL TREN PHANTASMA
TENNISCOATS - TOKINOUTA
ANDY STOTT - PASSED ME BY
BEEMASK - ELEGY FOR BEACH FRIDAY
CLAMS CASINO - INSTRUMENTAL MIXTAPE
NICHOLAS SZCZEPANIK - PLEASE STOP LOVING ME
NETTLE - EL REPLANDOR
LA VAMPIRES GOES ITAL - STREETWISE
THE NECKS - MINDSET
AMBARCHI, HAINO, O’ROURKE - IN A FLASH EVERYTHING COMES
TOGETHER AS ONE
SALEM - I’M STILL IN THE NIGHT









