Personal Electronics at Spoken Weird

Spoken Weird is a celebration of the spoken word curated by David Blamey, proprietor of independent publishing imprint Open Editions, for the London Art Book Fair at the Whitechapel Gallery. 

At Spoken Weird I will be presenting Personal Electronics, a spoken word performance with iPod. 

Personal Electronics is based on the reported experiences of victims of electronic harassment. Individuals are attacked in their own homes by remote lasers, electric fields, microwaves (such as the microwave auditory effect) and radar; rays are beamed at them, and magnets used to alter their minds; voice to skull technology is used to by-pass the ears to transmit sounds and thoughts into their heads. These phenomena are often accompanied by gang stalking, where victims are stalked or harassed in public by gangs of strangers, on the street, in cars, etc.

see also:
http://directobjective.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Personal Electronics
http://archive.org/details/personalelectronics_201305 

Also participating in Spoken Weird are David Blamey, Adam Bohman, Marco Cazzella, Maya Dunietz, Anouchka Grose, Sarah Jones, Bryan Lewis Saunders, and Tom White. 

Spoken Weird
16:00, 27 September
Whitechapel Gallery77-82 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX 

more details:
http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/book-fair/2014-projects
https://www.facebook.com/events/1523888261180562/

Signs and Wonders EP

Containing a single twenty-three minute song, the Signs and Wonders EP is the first release from a series of songs of quotidian and local reflection.

 

Signs and Wonders Song is constructed from overheard conversations, encounters, signs, community notices, announcements, phrases from historical texts about Victorian social life, from around about the neighbourhoods of Deptford and New Cross.

Now on Bandcamp

re: cycling

On the day that the Tour de France rolls into Londres... for £1 (85p for members) you can watch Green on the Horizon on BFI Player. It's there as part of a cycling collection which also consists of things like Ridley Scott's first film, Raleigh advertisements, and 1940s cycling safety films, among many others.

Last night I caught Velorama on BBC Four (available on iPlayer for another six days), which is a peculiar compilation of extracts of cycling films from the BFI archive, directed by Daisy Asquith, threaded through with an odd contrived narrative, driven by music from an unlikely coalition of Bill Nelson and Chumbawumba, which sounds like library music from a parallel universe ruled by Robert Fripp.