This month I take you out at dawn, to listen to the sounds of the city and my encounters. With delicious music that features tracks by Nine Horses, Kenji Kihara and Clariloops. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
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This month I take you out at dawn, to listen to the sounds of the city and my encounters. With delicious music that features tracks by Nine Horses, Kenji Kihara and Clariloops. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
HOLT TOWN, MANCHESTER 3.10AM Watch the short film, containing my reading of the text, sounds from the dawn and extra photographs. I was woken not by my alarm, but by the sound of wind screaming through gaps in my door. And then, on leaving for Holt Town, I nearly forgot my keys, which would have meant I’d have been locked out on my return after sunrise. This caused me to feel unsettled, a sense further enhanced when, after parking on […]
RETRO BAR, SACKVILLE STREET MANCHESTER, 3.29 AM Watch the film, with narrative and field recordings. Some mornings the sound of birdsong fills the still air. Other times there is a tense silence, and I’m caused to strain to hear the first notes of the blackbird’s delicious melody, signalling the end of darkness. On this particular breezeless morning in May, as I patrolled the area near Retro Bar, still too deep in shadow to be photographed, the main sound was of […]
CHEETHAM HILL, MANCHESTER 3.57AM Still images from the dawn visit, the text below read out and mixed with field recordings from the time spent there. “We’re told the Earth is spinning at some ludicrous speed, imperceptibly whirling us through the days and nights of our lives. I am most aware of this extraordinary phenomenon when photographing a fixed point, such as a building, with the sun or moon nearby. With each long exposure I can see the planets shifting, never […]
This month I mix the sounds from a single, unfolding dawn with delicious soothing music. Birdsong and chilled, ambient sounds. Take your time with this show, it’s an opportunty to relax. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
ANCOATS, MANCHESTER 5.24AM The decision as to where I will photograph at dawn is often taken the moment I turn the ignition in my car. A flock of choices swirl around my head, as if a strong breeze has caught a pile of carefully folded orders, and I must somehow pluck one out of the air. Once I’ve grasped my instructions, I’m aware and accept that I’ve set off on a particular path of fate, and that what I encounter […]
HIGHER BROUGHTON, SALFORD, SPRING EQUINOX 5.49AM The previous evening had been spent with a close friend, wandering the haunts of his past life as a student living in the area quite some years ago, him scampering childlike up and down the street where he had once shared a house. He marvelled at the changes, minimal to my eyes, but to him an era now lost and forever altered by passing time. The area’s residents are now often Orthodox Jews, and […]
This month I go for a night walk up the Irk Valley with my friend Nick Dunn, amongst the ghosts bats and rats of this etheral land, and discuss ideas from his new book Dark Futures. Soundscapes by Not Quite Light, and music features tracks from Space Afrika, Yumi Iwaki and Aphex Twin. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
Join Not Quite Light for the monthly rummage through the box of sounds under my bed for an eclectic mix of field recordings and delicious music. There is a hint of spring to this month, and I feature tracks by Alice Boyd, Antony Szmierek, Pefkin and Duke Ellington. LISTEN HERE PLAYLIST
WHERE WILL THE SOULS OF THE DEAD LIVE NOW? Angel Meadow is a crucible land. Once bucolic, it became home to a notorious slum in the years of the industrial revolution, and at its northern end a now anonymous pauper’s burial ground conceals the bodies of up to 40,000 people. In recent years a vast sum of money from Hong Kong has been invested in regenerating the local district, and Angel Meadow, deemed a park these days, is slowly being […]