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Well I haven’t been here for sometime. The text below starts an explanation which will eventually spotlight all the new facets!

Towards the end of last summer I finished a project which had occupied me on and off for 2 years. A monumental a cappella composition for 20 voices based on texts from Samuel Pepys and composed by Benjamin Till. It would be easier to describe my work on this remarkable project in visual terms. Imagine taking a photo that is blurred and attempting to sharpen the image pixel by pixel. My work was the audio equivalent, massively time consuming and satisfying but in some ways the end point of my obsession with detail. After the damage, I took the headphones off.

Since then I have been concentrating on visual creation, graphic/ geometricised pen and ink drawings of shapes (human spirograph) and words/ letters. When I was a lad I did the self same thing with ruler, flexicurve and Rotring, throwing in bits of Schwitters concrete Cobbing in a typewriterly sort of way. The arrival of a Revox A77, my first tape recorder occupied and enslaved me until arriving at the very recent now it is as if I am attempting the translation of 4 decades of 2D Sound Architecture into a 10 week crash course for the graphic engRaver, sinking in the not so derivative son.

A5, it had to be A5. The size of a serious paperback the spine which displays well on a shelf also the size of ipad mini on which I was happily doodling, screen grabs can be seen on the video of ‘Aspirateur’, somewhere above or below.

Hand drawn/ Scanned/ Phohostopped/ Printed. Few pixels were hurt as I preferred to retain the imperfection of the original (analogous at heart) drawing. The digital process was necessary for duplication giving the means of production,

OF, 

100 numbered limited edition, 

A5 size Box Set through Cat Werk Imprint:

From The Penman Press

Ten original A5 printed artworks, containing copious amounts of my DNA. Please notify me of projected clones.

One CD, a re-imaging of my 2011 ‘Angleterror’ album previously only available on download. Time has allowed the possibility of adjusting some elements which improve the album but the real source of happiness is having it mastered and a further layer of aural excitement brought into focus by AGF, @poemproducer.

The final 2 elements of the Box Set are A5 sheets again, one of which is a hand printed letterpress credit sheet, the other a composite scan of all 10 pieces of artwork called, ‘suggested orientation’. 

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