Sci-Fi, Thrillers, Contemporary
As the result of some collaboration and encouragement the new Venus Vulture EP Heavy Skies is out now. This includes the track We Heard Distant Rainfall created for the sommeil sleep concert. You can download from bandcamp. Thanks to Craig from TurkbyTone Rekkids and to Tanner Menard, the awesome curator of sommeil.
Download from Bandcamp
Label info TurkbyTone Rekkids
Tanner Menard
My story Eddie’s on Fire has just been published on MicroHorror. There have been some positive comments on the story, including this from Joshua Scribner “I like this. The writing flows. It reads like a literary piece, and then, suddenly, horror. I was drawn into the romance aspect of it, and I was worried about the little girl when the kerosene was introduced. Nice ending. Good job.”
Click here to read the story.
My story Maisy-Sue has just been published on the excellent site Flashes in the Dark. Check out the site for more horror – they do a daily dose. Click here to read the story.
A new Sean Monaghan story Library Derelict has just come out on the wonderful PowderBurnFlash site. Click here to read.
Tanner Menard is curating an amazing event – a nine-hour long mix of ambient music to sleep to. The mix will include the Venus Vulture track We Heard Distant Rainfall. See more about the event in the press release at Tanner’s site. “Sleep concerts are all-night events in which the audience is asked to attend the concert with a sleeping bag and pillow and to fall asleep while a slowly unfolding sonic texture evolves over the course of the night and into the morning”. The concert takes place on the night of April 11th, in New Orleans
I took this looking northeast, back towards Nevada.
Artist David Andree made a call for field recordists to participate in a collaborative recording event which took place on February 28th at 15:00:00 GMT/UTC, as part of an art project to be exhibited at the big orbit gallery in buffalo, ny from march 7th – 28th 2009. Field recordists from around the world simultaneously recorded the sound of the wind for five minutes. David then compiled the recordings into the exhibition.
I was in Death Valley at 7am local time (3pm GMT) and, though I was travelling light and didn’t get access to the technology needed to upload the recording in time for the exhibition, I made this recording –
The hand-clap sound at the beginning is part of the project’s synching. Mostly this is the sound of my own circulation system, and occasional noises as I shifted my weight on the stoney ground. This is a binaural recording, so headphone listening might enhance the sense of it. Note, it is also very quiet – remember to turn your volume down before you put Metallica on again (or not).
I was near Daylight Pass – just South of where the road meets the California/Nevada state line (the white dashed line), on the California (left) side:
More stuff on Death Valley coming – I spent the day there, my second visit. Seven years ago I made the Venus Vulture album “Death Valley”, which had* limited** circulation. I listened to the CD as I drove around during the day. Now I’m starting work on a new project “Death Valley Redux”, which will hopefully see release later this year.
*(and always will have – I was still learning about music and how it works)
**(to friendly and encouraging family and friends)
Infrequency made an open call for artitst to submit interpretations of the 1860 recording of Au Clair de la Lune by Édouard-Léon Scott, the earliest known recording of the human voice, to compliment the double CD compilation. The Venus Vulture interpretation “Monduacs” is included in the the digital only collection. See Infrequency for more details and the download link.
I’ve had a new story published on Microhorror – thanks Nathan! Small Classified Ad. Read it here.
Nathan at MicroHorror ran a little mini-contest for up 110 word stories – my entry Last Plane Out got published here. Exactly 110 words.
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