Category: score

I started Void Ov Voices in 2006 to create ritualistic music for the moment, to play only live performances while capturing and interfering with the energy of the space and the time of the location.
The first time I travelled to Lebanon was in 2008 for one particular reason: to visit the Trilitons and the giant Monoliths of Baalbek. I was deeply impressed by the level of ancient civilisations engineering technology and the intense magical atmosphere of the whole area.

Infuriatingly, this wonderful recording is not on CD. And so I cannot own a physical copy of its cosmic might. I may have to bend my current rule and get the digital copy.

It’s not often I’ll find a bit of space-rock/post-rock that does it for me these days, but I could listen to this immense riff forever.

“Utsnobi Matriarkaluri Tomis Simgherebi” is an improvisational cycle recorded by musicians Darja Kazimira and Zura Makharadze during the filming of the experimental, analogue film “Rue de la Lune” by the Irish director Juana Robles, dedicated to the comprehension of one matriarchal generation, embraced by the tendency to painful transformation and self-absorption, striving throughout the performance to get out of these boundaries, heal and to reborn. In this act, the musicians were also characters and all the music written for the film was created precisely at the moment of the live performance documented by the director in Tbilisi, in the studio house where the authors of this cycle live and work. In particular, we performed a bodily performance that unfolded on the ruins of the Karmir monastery, which can be seen directly in the film.

I’ve got a jaw harp, but I’m always afraid it’s going to vibrate my teeth out of my head.

Our time, without time, is a condition undergoing naturalisation…. Today’s reality is a laboratory in which the players are anaesthetised and therefore dazzled by their relationship with reality. Being dazzled, as we know, leads one to become somewhat blind, in a good way, shall we say, while the anaesthetic effect lasts… but then the awakening might be far from pleasant.

This record seeks to take up a position in territory outside of anaesthesia. It therefore wants to bring back the possibility of time… again. Retrieving the constituent layers of time is like thinking about the past, the present and the future.

The title refers to a possible suspensive deactivation of the stoppage. It is, more than anything, a desire. A realisation that the stoppage is in no way a passive activity.

Those are from the release’s notes, a lengthy construction that frankly in no way surrounds this excellent piece of long-duration electronic ambient space explorations.

This is glorious. Wish I had the spare cash for the CD this week. (EDIT: fuck it. Bought it anyway.)

NO SOUND IS LOST is the new 3 track EP from UK musician Laura Cannell featuring Violin, Overbowed Violin and Voice. 
It was improvised & recorded inside an empty shipping container in the Norfolk Countryside in March 2023.

Immediately outside of the container is a cattle field where two pairs of leaping hares stop to watch and listen before bounding off into the dusky undergrowth. A five hundred year old oak tree stands rooted and broad in the centre of the field and the nearby A146 road sends high pitched racer-boy revs across the fields. 


Inside the 40ft container is another world. Up close it’s a non thing. A box. But inside, after the twist and crank of heavy door handles is a vast empty space where there shouldn’t be. All I want to do is play, to hit the sides with violin soundings, for them to ricochet among the metal grooves of this oversized shopping crate. The container holds the sound inside a room that shouldn’t be there.

Keith Berry just very kindly sent me his new record! Listen above or click through. I approve of the title, obviously, having been a Ballardian for forty years…!

I own a lot of material from Brawl Records. I got an email saying that if you click through to their site:

“We are having a March FLASH SALE for one week! (ends midnight next Saturday 25th)
Please use the code “merrymarch30″ at the checkout for Digital & Physical sales.”

Dunno why I put that there, as I’m the only person who reads this log, but whatever…