Anechoic Chamber podcast Thomas Bey William Bailey

Welcome to the 22nd episode of Anechoic Chamber, once again bringing you unique reportage from the thriving margins of art and culture. Our guest for this edition is Jean-Jacques Martinod, Ecuadorian filmmaker, transmedia artist, archivist, radio DJ, and occasional curator. Martinod’s film work, which is the topic of discussion for this program, fuses together elements of both experimental and documentary filmmaking practice, resulting in a unique audio-visual hybrid that the artist describes as follows: “Cinema as messenger via spontaneous generation and improvisation, at an immanent level, to counteract the society of the spectacle...an invitation to a polysemic experience and potential polyphonies. A cinema of becomings.” This is evident in films such as Before the Deluge, La Bala de Sandoval (or Sandoval’s Bullet), and Datura’s Aubade, the last done in collaboration with Bretta Walker. Taking occasional cues from surrealist and gothic styles of literature, cinematic influences such as Jean Epstein and film peers like Salome Lamas (whose concept of para-fiction informs Martinod’s own evocation of what he calls para-worlds) his work boils down a complex set of reference points into a visceral experience that is strangely accessible while being intellectually challenging. As such, he has screened at international festivals such as the Rotterdam Film Festival, FIDMarseille, Mar del Plata, European Media Arts Festival, 25FPS, and many more, alongside regular appearances in galleries and DIY spaces. So here, with a much more detailed exposition of his creative vision, is Jean Jacques Martinod.

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backing sounds provided by the artist and TBWB
opening music: Colin Andrew Sheffield / James Eck Rippie, "Viola Variations"
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artist film links on Vimeo (password: monopolio)
(password: monopolio)
Before the Deluge | 38min
https://vimeo.com/343528776
La Bala de Sandoval(Eng. Sandoval's Bullet) | 17min
https://vimeo.com/297421250
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closing music: Teiji Ito, "Moonplay"

Welcome listeners to the 21st episode of Anechoic Chamber, once again bringing you unique reportage from the thriving margins of art and culture. Our guest this time is the British sound artist Scanner, known by his human alias Robin Rimbaud. With a staggering number of live actions and recordings to his credit, Scanner’s oft-cited and controversial claim to fame has been his usage of intercepted communications and conversations as the raw material with which to build music dramas with an intense poignancy and personal relevance. This practice is, however, just one point of reference in a large body of work that deals with what the artist has called a “archaeology of loss” documenting the ghosts and all-too-quickly forgotten ephemera of the information age. Scanner’s enthusiasm for such led to the co-formation of the notable record label Ash International, one of the key labels to fuse esoteric or paranormal interests with aesthetic impression from the hard sciences. His own work has been applied to all kinds of installation environments and contexts, and to collaborations with artists from DJ Spooky to Mike Kelley, and has even earned the endorsement of the late Gilles Deleuze. He has created permanent installations in everything from Riga airport to a Paris morgue, has scored the first virtual reality ballet for the Dutch National Ballet, and also scored a piece in Trafalgar Square for 1,000 dancers. With a restlessness that has extended to his private practice of writing a daily diary entry since he was 12 years old, we at Anechoic Chamber are fortunate to steal some rare moments of his free time.

all selections provided by Sacnner, from the following releases (mostly) available to stream / download at https://scanner.bandcamp.com/:
- "Sound for Spaces"
- "Play Along"
- "Mass Observation (Expanded)"
- "Esprits de Paris (with Mike Kelley)"
- "Electronic Garden"
- "Reason by Heart, Sleep by Twilight"
- also featured Scanner remix of Scorn "Night Tide," from "Ellipsis" remix album

additional artist links: www.scannerdot.com

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Welcome to episode 20 of Anechoic Chamber, once again bringing you unique reportage from the glowing margins of art and culture. Our guest for this edition is Steve Finbow, author and editor whose works have appeared on imprints such as Infinity Land Press, Zero Books, Repeater Books and Amphetamine Sulfate. Finbow has quietly yet unmistakably become an integral part of the 21st century literary landscape, by taking an ecumenical approach to written material that is equally informed by critical theory and avant-garde art as by the under-documented shadow side of human behaviors and interactions. In a cultural scene which seems to have exhausted its ability to explore the extreme, so-called, Finbow presents a variety of often uncomfortable subject matter in a way that is both forensic and poetic. From his biography of Allen Ginsberg to his exhaustive discussions of, among other things, necrophilia or the role of sickness in creative life, Finbow’s body of work steers clear of expectations and does so in a way that is genuinely informative rather than making this simple act of surprise or shock the primary objective. He has also worked in collaboration with artist Karolina Urbaniak on Death Mort Tod: A European Book of the Dead and has most recently edited Infinity Land Press’ Anthology commemorating the first eight years of that publisher’s activity.

Additional atmospheres and segues by Thomas Bey William Bailey
Closing credits music: 'Blue Basket' (instrumental) from "Cambodian Cassette Archives: Khmer Folk and Pop Music, Vol. 1"

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Artist links:

https://www.infinitylandpress.com/anthology
https://amphetaminesulphate.bigcartel.com/product/the-mindshaft
https://www.instagram.com/stevefinbow/

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Welcome adventurous listeners to the 19th episode of Anechoic Chamber. This is the second part of our two-part exposition of the work and thoughts of our guest Andrew McKenzie. Working since the 1970s, McKenzie is particularly known for his pioneering efforts to expand the vocabulary of recorded sound, which itself expanded into a mission to enhance all modalities of perception - this has been carried out with his flagship project The Hafler Trio as well as in collaboration with artists such as Clock DVA, The Anti Group, and Psychic TV.

Though certainly not the only arrow in his McKenzie’s quiver, his extensive performing and recording career has both informed, and been informed by, a host of other creative activities drawing upon knowledge from both techno-scientific and esoteric realms: working as a computer programmer before (as he reminds me) there were “pictures” on computer screens. Teaching Tibetan language and calligraphy (and some Sanskrit). Writing books, editing video, designing everything from graphics to instructional materials, and working as both a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist. One of his more recent and significant ventures, dubbed by him “complementary education,” fuses insights gleaned from all of these distinct experiences, and involves conducting 14-hour long sound workshops aimed at re-discovering the creative process in a world obsessed with nominalization (in other words, with the act of devaluing a process by conceptualizing it as a thing or object). After fruitful residencies in the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland and elsewhere, McKenzie now resides in Estonia, from which he joined our host for the following conversation.

This comes with the disclaimer that, despite capturing several hours worth of useful material for these next couple episodes, we still emerge with little more than a snapshot of a legitimately eclectic and evolving personality.

Additional audio segues provided by Thomas Bey William Bailey
intro music: Pierre Bastien, "Gypsy Rhythm"

Artist link: linktr.ee/simply_superior

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Welcome adventurous listeners to the 18th episode of Anechoic Chamber. This will be the first in a two-part exposition of the work and thoughts of our guest Andrew McKenzie. Working since the 1970s, McKenzie is particularly known for his pioneering efforts to expand the vocabulary of recorded sound, which itself expanded into a mission to enhance all modalities of perception - this has been carried out with his flagship project The Hafler Trio as well as in collaboration with artists such as Clock DVA, The Anti Group, and Psychic TV.

Though certainly not the only arrow in his McKenzie’s quiver, his extensive performing and recording career has both informed, and been informed by, a host of other creative activities drawing upon knowledge from both techno-scientific and esoteric realms: working as a computer programmer before (as he reminds me) there were “pictures” on computer screens. Teaching Tibetan language and calligraphy (and some Sanskrit). Writing books, editing video, designing everything from graphics to instructional materials, and working as both a hypnotherapist and psychotherapist. One of his more recent and significant ventures, dubbed by him “complementary education,” fuses insights gleaned from all of these distinct experiences, and involves conducting 14-hour long sound workshops aimed at re-discovering the creative process in a world obsessed with nominalization (in other words, with the act of devaluing a process by conceptualizing it as a thing or object). After fruitful residencies in the Netherlands, Sweden, Iceland and elsewhere, McKenzie now resides in Estonia, from which he joined our host for the following conversation.

This comes with the disclaimer that, despite capturing several hours worth of useful material for these next couple episodes, we still emerge with little more than a snapshot of a legitimately eclectic and evolving personality.

Additional audio segues provided by Thomas Bey William Bailey
intro music: Pierre Bastien, "Caravan" and "Au Prado"

Artist link: https://linktr.ee/simply_superior

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Welcome to episode number 17 of Anechoic Chamber - freeform commentary from the thriving margins of art and culture. Our guest for this edition is author Audrey Szasz. Currently based in London and raised in Central Europe, Szasz has been noted for writing in the mold of authors such as Anna Kavan and has claimed others such as JG Ballard and Lauetreamont as primary influences - all coming together to suggest a style that resists easy genre classification, and which builds a profoundly personal and admittedly perverse realm of fantasy and nightmare from elements of science fiction, decadent poetry, true crime writing and much more. Perhaps fitting into a class of writers that were once condemned by the literary critic Michiko Kakutani as so-called designer nihilism, Audrey’s creations can often be extremely intense explorations of the psychopathology that results from humans’ existence as eternal contradictions. For example, her latest work Tears of a Komsomol Girl builds its unconventional narrative around a semi-fictionalized portrait of the so-called “Butcher of Rostov,” Andrei Chikatilo. Having made her official debut with “The Plan for the Abduction of JG Ballard” - a collaborative work with the poet and author Jeremy Reed - she has now gone on to release work on the Amphetamine Sulfate and Infinity Land imprints. Our wide-ranging discussion here reveals a number of Audrey’s motivations, thoughts on non-literary human affairs, and spiritual predecessors, who we touch upon in the first part of this program.

backing sound piece "Negev" provided by the artist

|Artist links (content may be NSFW)|
audreyszasz.wordpress.com
https://www.infinitylandpress.com/tearsofakomsomolgirl
@szasz_audrey

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