'Betamax and Dictaphones', is Chris Dooks' contribution tonight, from The Eskdalemuir Harmonium is a site-specific album orientated around a dying American harmonium - currently disintegrating in a farmhouse near Lockerbie. Much as one visits a sick relative in a care home, the record is a form of ‘sonic palliative care’ forming a third of Chris Dooks’ ongoing PhD. This is a spoken word track from lavish red vinyl album, a compressed radio documentary that closes side one. See http://kominorecords.com/site/news/portfolio/k0m1n0-004 to stream the album and to buy a copy. The project was launched at the CCA on the 11th of December 2012.

Chris Dooks - Betamax & Dictaphones

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Colliding Lines #8 - 17 September 2020

Lights Out Listening Group is a unique listening event that takes place in almost complete darkness. We have been running regular events in Glasgow since 2011. 

Through this bi-monthly event we hope to form a community of sound makers – putting people in touch so that they can get advice, support and feedback on their work and possibly find new audiences and new people to work with. It is an opportunity for contributors to test their audio creations out on a small audience of like-minded individuals who share a love of radio and the sonic arts. As well as recorded media we also wish to give a platform to live spoken word performances. This group is open to anybody working with sound at all stages of their career including students, professionals and amateurs.

Each listening event is made up of a programme of sound and radio works submitted to us in advance. A short printed programme including a brief synopsis of each work and a short biog of the producer is handed out on the night. Examples of the type of work included in previous editions can be heard on this Soundcloud page.

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Chris Dooks - Betamax & Dictaphones

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