Improvs 2021

A review of day one of the 2022 Tectonics Glasgow festival.

Tectonics Glasgow 2022 Day One

A review of the second day of the Tectonics Glasgow festival 2022.

Tectonics Glasgow 2022 Day Two

18 Sep walk improv (underpowered)

18 Sep walk improv (boring)

Hollow

Hidden

A review of Day 1 (Sat 29 Apr) of the 2023 Tectonics Glasgow festival.

Tectonics Glasgow 2023 Day 1 review

A review of Day 2 of Tectonics Glasgow 2023

Tectonics Glasgow 2023 Day 2 review

From back in April 2009.

That year I created and released an album a month.

'...unpredictable' had a concept, was written and planned in advance, and recorded in on marathon session.

It was recorded on cassette placed in front of a guitar amp I was feeding the sound through. I used a drum mic and a plastic cup with a contact mic taped to it for vocals.

In terms of sound I was aiming for something that echoed noise, drone, grindcore, and the wilder, more primitive bits of CD-r/tape labels.

It's kind of my favourite.

Some very short tracks.

Also known as 'monkey sex', references respectively to the cover photo and the subject matter.

Ors Pent Gralist

Hurt

From earlier this month apparently (6 July), coulda sworn it was older.

morningsungmoan

Home and mouth goof, lunkish slobber. Latest from Manchester lummox Tear Fet

ShitfacedNotShitfaced

Microbiome

A description of a walk from Manchester to York.

I Walked for 25 Hours Nonstop!

An account of a 19 hour walk around the outside of the M60, Manchester's orbital motorway.

I Walked for 19 Hours Around the M60!

A description of a walk from Manchester to Thelwall; with digressions to complain about roads, and get angry about the recent race riots.

Thelwall, and Real World Intrusions

My take on Peter Bellamy's setting of a Rudyard Kipling poem. From a recent set of unaccompanied folk tunes I'll probably self-release shortly.

Oak, Ash and Thorn

Walk: Manchester/Bredbury/Reddish urban loop 8 July 2018

Essay: Where's the politics?

five rooms is an exploration of physical and mental space, the confinements, biases, and occasional surprises. It presents itself as a conceptual tour of an apartment through sound, interrupted by field recording and inconclusive, unrelated anecdotes, before a small song either wrenches everything back on track or derails the whole affair.

five rooms was conceived and recorded very quickly, and is deliberately rough, with occasionally distorted recordings, minimal production, and for the tracks recorded outside lots of wind and traffic noise.
For the next couple of weeks five rooms is exclusively available to patrons only, before being made available to everyone else.

five rooms:

living room / study     1:36
interrupt 2 : wythenshawe park     3:41
bedroom     3:25
boxroom     1:57
non-room     2:02
interrupt 1 : visual confusion     11:38
bathroom     3:22
kitchen : later     2:23
rain turns the greens black     1:22

Tear Fet

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