Author: Chris Whitehead
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Takanobu Hoshino – Untitled
At one time Japanese sound artist Takanobu Hoshino’s art was seemingly concerned with the crackling Geiger counter air of his home city Fukushima. The ubiquitous residual glint of radioactivity permeated his creations, for example the CD ‘Fukushima’, a collaboration with Roel Meelkop,…
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Takanobu Hoshino – Ancient star story of Asia
Takanobu Hoshino’s art, whether painting, photography, sculpture or sound, is an art of subtle clarity and clear simplicity. This isn’t to say the results are without depth or mystery however, because a consistency of intention lies at the heart…
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Jeph Jerman – 34°111’3-N 111°95’4-W
The way images and objects relate to sound recordings is a constant two way flow. I’m currently listening to 34°111’3-N 111°95’4-W by Jeph Jerman on the Mappa label, and at the same time I’m looking at a photograph of the…
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Grey Ladies. SYBELLA PERRY (Porta / Hideous Replica 2014) Review by Chris Whitehead In a field known as Nine Stones Close on Harthill moor, Derbyshire, stands the Bronze Age stone circle known as Grey Ladies. It is the tallest circle in…
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Interview with Peter Lenaerts by Chris Whitehead A conversation with Peter Lenaerts By his own admission Peter Lenaerts has been obsessed by silence for years. He sees it as the space in which sound happens. Silence is also a space in…
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2013 in retrospective IX (345)
2013: The year in retrospective. Part X –CHRIS WHITEHEAD– Sound composer. Editor at The Field Reporter. Three triggers -or three tigers- Text by Chris Whitehead In a huge hangar of a toy shop, full of dead air and Christmas shoppers,…