Archive for March, 2011
close your eyes
Friday, March 11th, 2011“We’re so conditioned to experience the world through our eyes that the other senses really suffer. It’s always interesting to go into a space you know very well and then close your eyes. It’s not something people do very often but it can be very powerful.” Lawrence English, Australian composer, curator and sound artist.
review of ‘sounds of the seaside’
Friday, March 4th, 2011Great review of my radio prog ‘sounds of the seaside’ from the domestic soundscape blog, here: thedomesticsoundscape.com
Joe Moran’s blog
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011Been catching up on Joe Moran’s blog, reading some of his old posts and like this; “Photography has a potentially closer relationship to the everyday than other visual forms because of what Walter Benjamin calls its ‘unconscious optics,’ its ability ‘to capture fleeting and secret moments whose images paralyse the associative mechanisms in the beholder’. [...]
