sonic sketchbooks Podcast
1) 79 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - UTC
Around midnight of the 14th of December 2023 the Sun emitted an unusually strong solar flare - an unimaginably vast and powerful eruption of primary cosmic energy. The event was observed and monitored...Show More
2) 78 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - two sketches
Over decades of field recording I’ve grown to increasingly appreciate and utilise incidental sounds made between or around an intended sound capture. For example, walking across a the dried out forbs ...Show More
3) 77 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - polytonal wander
I built this new composition ‘polytonal wander’ from five recent recordings using different methods and devices for each. 

F irstly, a new modular element in my small Eurorack mix is an ERM Polygogo...Show More
4) 76 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - JOHN CAGE 111
John Cage - composer, artist, writer, provocateur, citizen mycologist and much more - was born 111 years ago on the 5th of September 1912. I’m publishing this 2023 episode on his birthdate, and the co...Show More
5) 75 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS
This composition is built from various new recordings of encounters with insects and birds, and wind-song heard through a gap in the wall of a remote rural building, wound together with outputs from v...Show More
6) 74 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - pleximetries
I’ve long been collecting individual sounds of everyday objects like saucepan lids, wine glasses, tools and implements, vessels and containers. I strike the object once with something, perhaps a chops...Show More
7) 73 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - cicada song
release date: 24 january 2023 This new composition drifts across and through various sonic topologies of layered and abstracted recordings including : water boiling in an old-fashioned whistle kettl...Show More
8) 72 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - breathless
COVID has left me a nagging discomfort, an occasional slight distress of being breathless. ‘Breathless’ is the English-language title for Jean-Luc Godard’s breathtaking 1960 cinematic experiment ‘A ...Show More
9) 71 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - in a soundscape
This new composition is a structuring of recent audio recordings made on national park field trips using hydrophones, contact mics and my trusty Tascam digital recorders mingled with home-studio noodl...Show More
10) 70 SONIC SKETCHBOOKS - adrift
A small mustard tin from India, a paulownia box for a teabowl from japan, a dried starfish, limpet shells, a whirlygig made from a beer can, vehicle flattened bottle caps collected from the streets, a...Show More