128 x 182mm, 96 pages, Black & white printing, Perfect bound, Softcover, 2022

Sounds haunt these texts, erupting suddenly, evoking memories, or wild to themselves.The precarity of the audio-artist’s process is generously exposed in these records of attempts to capture the vibrant elemental world he immerses himself in. Always conscious that he is not some detached observer, he very much desires to be part of the whole, even if he is sometimes at the mercy of unpredictable weather and landscapes.

The writing captures moments others might not give time to, background details are anything but; an epic contained in a wave moving pebbles, or smoke curling through a street lamp’s glare. The writer is sharp-eared and eyed like the often mentioned birds that appear amongst these pages, offering up a fox's scream, a chalk-gleam, the swerve of a jet, the language itself circling and enfolding the sounds and sights.

Field recording and writing are depicted as a kind of hunting, animal-like, but with delicate equipment, human vulnerability, and compassion. The moods and activities of light and weather are given as much agency as any human, and seem immense and mysterious in their passing. Mundane detail is always on equal footing with the sublime in these writings, or maybe it was always sublime all along.

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