Over the last two years, The Black Dog have photographed their home town and the brutal architecture that sits within. This album of ambient, experimental and down-tempo work was originally conceived as an aid for the creative process but ultimately provides a soundtrack to the artworks.

We've always worked apart. For us, it's nothing new. Large online servers have been in place for years but at some stage, we always meet up while working on an album to pour over the details, tone and running order.

We create storyboards and write text to support and form the ideas. However, this process and the simple ability to sit in the same room just wasn’t possible during the pandemic. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, on this project we believe that it has helped us to capture the isolation a photographer seeks with their subject. It's an attempt at slowing down and finding something internal. When the chatter stops, the creative intentions seep through.

Music For Photographers was first created as a functional tool. For the last two years, we’ve been photographing our city and the brutal architecture that sits within the landscape. Throughout this process many mistakes had been made, resulting in many return visits to repeat work already undertaken. Rushing, aimlessly collecting and near misses are all common problems. Photography, just like any other artform, needs to be practised and the skills need to be attained. Like music, it’s a constant battle.

Something was needed to aid the art being sought.

We created Music For Photographers with two simple rules; to be void of human voices and that it should be played in full when visiting any location. Our approach to composing the music and visiting the locations evolved. It helped the whole process become a more fluid exchange of ideas and we repeated the process later while editing the photographs. The book "Brutal Sheffield" provided a full stop for the creative process, finding that perfect balance between function and form.

Music For Photographers has now become a fully functioning sigil in our creative process. Rather than just invoking, it also evokes and goes beyond being a simple function. Listen carefully and you can hear the bréton brut!

Music For Photographers

Fields We Found joins Owari for an hour of ambient bliss and textured spaces. Featuring pieces by artists such as Louis Sterling, Ian Hawgood, and Arovane.

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Owari w/ Fields We Found - August 2022

Unedited recording of my set at Savoy Theatre in Helsinki, Finland on 17 March 2023.

Setlist:
Against A White Cloud
Black Dust
Clouds 
Post-Crisis Remembrance
To Drown Out The Ocean
Bound Universe
The Purpose Of Peace
On A Shattered Shell Beach

Thanks to Magnús Logi Kristinsson for the photo.

Abul Mogard "Live at Savoy Theatre - Helsinki, 17 March 2023"

Live recording of Field Lines Cartographer at Hymns For Robots electronic music night, The Golden Lion, Lancaster 30-5-2019

There's a bit of a strange crackle on one of the mixer channels at times, but it could be argued it adds to the atmosphere...

Thanks to Dave Shooter & Leroy Lupton @ Hymns For Robots

FIELD LINES CARTOGRAPHER *Live* @ the Golden Lion Lancaster 30th May 2019

This is the full recording of my set at the Sonica festival in Ljubljana on 27 September 2019.

The piece "The Purpose Of Peace" included in this set is available on Bandcamp as free download or "name your price" here:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/track/the-purpose-of-peace-live

Live at Sonica 2019

Flint

Bekophobia

Pavement

What Makes Us Human - Final

Generative Example Jam

Today we have a mellow mix out by an artist with whose work we recently fell in love with: Polypores. Hard to place in one category but with noticeable influences of synthwave, ambient, and drone, he himself describes his music as ‘Cosmic sleep music, sci-fi soundtracks and haunted drones’. Recently he released Azure and Tempus, an album which is out through Woodford Halse tapes. He also has some projects in the pipeline: Myriad for label @castlesinspace, Shpongos for @bluetech and a few others. 

Lastly, he is creating an album completely with his custom built Dopefer modular system. ánd he is working on a special collab for Miracle Pond with Gareth E Rees, who is the author of Unofficial Britain, a book/platform which focusses on celebrating the overlooked part of Britain in the past and present. Definitely check their website out: http://www.unofficialbritain.com/

Follow the artist 
@polypores 
www.polypores.bandcamp.com
www.instagram.com/sjbuckers
www.twitter.com/stephenjbuckley

''(" LOUNGY011 ")" ~ Polypores [GBR]

transmissions from the deep cold of interstellar space
space...techno...atmospheres.Transplanetary electronic sounds as Impulse Array. Dark ambient electronica & drone as Field Lines Cartographer

FIELD LINES CARTOGRAPHER Live @ the Golden Lion Lancaster 30th May 2019

Impulse Array

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