You know how for ages I said I would get the Hookland Right To Reside cards printed up? Well it done at last as a special insert for the copies of ‘Hookland Fragments’ available from @treadwells-books.bsky.social - I now just have to deliver them to the shop first.

I have a piece in Science & Magic again this week, alongside @archieislander.bsky.social and @wildtwin.bsky.social and other really good stuff www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

Thanks to Matt at Violette Records for giving me fortnightly space in Science & Magic to try work out in process/progess. One photo from my millions with a related comic strip, where I am languishing in the gutter trying to pare down - other people's windows. www.violetterecords.com/science-and-...

#nowplaying In the late ‘60s (?), Gary Stewart recorded honky tonk takes on several Motown hits including Baby I Need Your Loving, Yester-me, Yester-you, Yesterday, and I Can’t Help Myself. They are fantastic IMIO. Today you can hear them for the first time. youtu.be/g2fbVsxdyYo?...

"Rhyme in poetry is a matter of sound, the sound of words. To think of rhyme as something between shots is to transfer something from the world of sound to something silent ..." An Interview with Larry Gottheim — @archieislander.bsky.social minorliteratures.com/2026/07/16/e...

In 2024 I emailed Larry re playing my harmonica in the Mojave Desert. Life is strange so I ended up asking him q's about whales, elephants and dogs for his latest film Q & A, and more recently other questions for minorlits. Watch, read, listen to all in the link.Thanks to @monalisavitti.bsky.social

A new iteration of Tilly Johnson's Still, We Move will open AS IT IS, 6.30-7pm, Aug 7th in the Grace and Clark Fyfe Gallery, Glasgow School of Art. Looking forward to experimenting with live improvised analogue sound to create a sound and movement dialogue as a trio with Tilly and Georgie Mac.

old school

The ever brilliant Annea Lockwood

This is a fascinating, extremely well written/encountered essay on fire taming by @susannacrossman.bsky.social

Anti-racism rally, Leith, tomorrow, 1pm, Montgomery St Park

Honoured to win this prize for my collection of radical books and pamphlets! Read about the books and their authors in this wee article, ranging from lion tamers and no borders organising to anarchist printers and atomic radiation:

Sun Ra Arkestra mural unveiled yesterday in Philly 🚀 ✨ 🪐

Unsettling people in forests since 2021, apparently...

So grateful that thanks to Clare & ‘if trees were lone women what would they sound like’ (in its 3rd incarnation here), a little of my words/voice has travelled the world with a community of women/NB collaborators. (Galloway, Peru, Denmark)

At home, stuck in the Nth hell of illness, it’s been a powerful good to think of this playing elsewhere today thanks to Clare. Made yesterday, from bed, using nearby things (voice, zither, shruti box, 1970s, BBC records & a copy of this) Pan As In Nap (9mins41) www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/mjg38...

It has become a bit of a ritual to play the camera shutter sound that @moragperkinsphoto.com recorded for Galloway Forest in 2021 at the point where people enter the installation space. Always a huge talking point.

The first one I got was spoken word and field recordings, words in Polish. The second was from Australia, dog walking field recordings. Give it a go.

Tomorrow and Sunday I'll be playing audio here from around the world as part of 'if trees were lone women what would they sound like in Aarhus'. As well as the audio already received I'm doing a 24 hour call-out for audio from women (inclusive) and NB people from anywhere in the world, details below

Also Convoy

This deserves many many thousands of views.

My friend Susan's daughter died by suicide in Autumn last year. This weekend Susan is climbing the highest peaks in Scotland, England and Wales in 24 hours with Melissa's friends to raise money and awareness for the Canmore Trust. Melissa was a vibrant, talented, unique and empathetic person

sonny rollins, copenhagen, 1974 (contains jazz bagpipe) youtu.be/OSivam0Pymg?...

"With the energy and the spirit for my well-being. That's what I've been doing and that's what I still will be doing and that's where I'm still standing still doing… It'll take probably a lifetime but so what? What's a lifetime?" Happy Birthday Marshall Allen born May 25, 1924

MES in the morning www.youtube.com/watch?v=pem0...

RIP Nedra Talley Ross, the last of The Ronettes. "Though sometimes we'll fight, but I won't really care" youtu.be/4l5t1FUscUI

I'm very much for the Hilliardian research method of taking casual curiosity and observation and building on it. Honky Tonk men and wine. @emhilly.bsky.social oxfordamerican.org/magazine/iss...

Very resonant interview with @peteralanross.bsky.social here. Reflecting on his trilogy he addresses some fundamental questions of people, place, time and interconnection & what it is to keep making work with a kind of antithetical faith perhaps. mathewlyons.substack.com/p/memory-pla...

There's only one Annea Lockwood.

So what does listening mean to YOU? We can’t wait to see -and hear - your creative responses to the question. citiesandmemory.com/listening/

Free download or paperback purchase of Sonic Detection - expanded eavesdropping from sonic detectives Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley punctumbooks.com/titles/sonic...

Fine by me, I regularly still think about Distant Light which TR recommended to me a few years ago. Interesting expansion on his thinking and approach here. “I am not a peaceful man or a peaceful writer”: An Interview with Antonio Moresco — Tobias Ryan minorliteratures.com/2026/01/07/i...

Turns out the brick lord lives in Kent

By deities I mean a Spanish brick company or a man in Newcastle.

Please all pray to the brick gods that they take pity on me and send me the free specialist bricks that I really need for something now I've decided I need them for something.

I would really like to go and see this having read about her in this piece by @monsterbobby.bsky.social but I can't. apollo-magazine.com/christine-ko...

That's my backhanded offer to do their next video. Personal gauntlet/electronic dudes.

Much as I love them I'm getting a bit bored (yes) of the Boards of Canada marketing board intrigue.

"‘Live At Liquid Room, Tokyo’ set a new standard in visceral intensity for a genre still in development. 30 years on its raw power remains unparalleled. Here, Jeff Mills tells Oli Warwick the story behind this landmark moment in techno history …"

cow sees deer

Ten years beyond the big sweat point

Just putting this out there again... I’d love someone to commission an exhibition and/or book of these Netherne artworks, if at all possible. #ArtSky #BookSky 💙📚

quick memory drawing this morning of Becoming Air, the closing performance of @counterflows.bsky.social last night from Annea Lockwood and Nate Wooley

Saw a lapwing, unless it was a plover but Gerard Manley Hopkins isn't here to argue with me so it was a lapwing.