Professor Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)

Title: Towards an Ecology of Materials

Tim Ingold is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, and a Fellow of both the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Following 25 years at the University of Manchester, where he was appointed Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology in 1995, Ingold moved in 1999 to Aberdeen, where he went on to establish the UK’s newest Department of Anthropology. 

About the lecture: Both material culture studies and ecological anthropology are concerned with the material conditions of social and cultural life. Yet despite advances in each of these fields which have eroded traditional divisions between humanistic and science-based approaches, their respective practitioners continue to talk past one another in largely incommensurate theoretical languages. Through a review of recent trends in the study of material culture, the reasons for this are found to lie in: (1) a conception of the material world and the nonhuman that leaves no space for living organisms; (2) an emphasis on materiality that prioritises finished artefacts over the properties of materials, and (3) a conflation of things with objects that stops up the flows of energy and circulations of materials on which life depends. To overcome these limitations, an ecology of materials is proposed that focuses on their enrolment in form-making processes. The paper concludes with some observations on materials, mind and time.

Tim Ingold. Towards an Ecology of Materials

Two interviews by Michael Palumbo in conversation with Wendalyn Bartley and Matt Rogalsky for the radio program Making Waves. Wendalyn Bartley and Matt Rogalsky both presented works in NAISA's Sound Travels Festival in August 2015 - www.naisa.ca

Making Waves is a monthly radio program produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) for WGXC at the Wave Farm in Acra New York. For a full show archive go to - wavefarm.org/wgxc/schedule/1b55r4

Making Waves 20150808 - Wendalyn Bartley & Matt Rogalsky

'____'                       single from upcoming VITAMIN D e.p.  
out sometime in 2017 

VITAMIN D are: Rudefood - modular synths/ production & Greta gbop - live percussion & drum machine.   Recorded in London by VITAMIN D.

VITAMIN D - ____  (OT05)

Buy: https://dontdelay.bandcamp.com/album/dramatic-sunset

'Raw, blue UK Braindance Techno jam beauty & related breakbeat science and Ambient bonus' - Hardwax

DD001 A - AEVA - Dramatic Sunset

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// released March 24, 2017

// Song & Lyrics by NEW POSITION

// Original beat by Dynas w/ J Dilla - 'The Apartment'
// www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehl5_qCifjU

// Written, performed, produced, mixed by KONL w/ NEW POSITION

// Recorded by Harry Yufeng Zhang at Spirit, SSR

// NEW POSITION
// Alice Higgins - vox.
// Pariss Elektra - vox.
// KONL - vox./gtr./keys./dr.prog.
// James Boyes - as.
// Will Howard - basscl.
// Angus Milne - bass.
// Steve Hanley - dr.
// Will Blackstone - dir. of musical ethics/assistant vibe engineer
// Matt Cliffe - video rec., SteadiCam ops.

// Artwork by KONL w/ NEW POSITION
// Photo by Sorrel Higgins
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Apartment [Single]

Apartment

G-pop - today is today, tomorrow is tomorrow. 
15 may 2017

G-Pop - today is today, tomorrow is tomorrow

G-Pop - you are my best case scenario

Composed in 2004. 
For harp and CD playback.
Performed by Rhodri Davies

Single Harmony for Rhodri Davies

Spatial Drone 2 is a synthesizer and Tuba improvisation which excites the resonant frequencies of the Legroom space. This is an improvisation which aims to subject a stationary audience to a range of body-listening experiences by putting the room into contrasting resonant vibratory states. During this experience, the audience becomes explicitly bound to the space through vibration. The audience both hears and feels the materiality of the space. Performed as part of my Listening to Architecture residency at LEGROOM Manchester on 26/11/17.

Spatial Drone 2 extract

Close your eyes…take a slow deep breath in…focus on all the sounds within the space…

Listen…

The live recording from our second Both Sides Now residency which saw a lineup of emerging artists explore left-field composition and the interactions between time, space and sound, directed by experimental classical composer and turntablist, Shiva Feshareki.

This residency was the second as part of Both Sides Now, our new ambitious three-year initiative to support and sustain gender equality across the landscape of music.

Thanks to Shiva Feshareki and the residency artists:
Abigail Seto, Avital Raz, Charlotte Bickley (CARLOS), Charlotte Cuningham, Cheak Nee Liau, Elizabeth Walshaw, Fran Bundey, Grace Stubbings, Jemma Freese, Lara Jones, Loraine James, Marlo DeLara, Megan Lama, Nicole Raymond (NikNak) and Rebecca Burden.

Produced and delivered by Brighter Sound. Recorded live at Leeds College of Music on Monday 12 March 2018 as the opener for Sounds Like THIS Festival.

Spatial Drone 2 extract

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