I’ve released a single.

Yes me, a music single.

It’s 99p on iTunes:

RAWTunes.exe 10.4.2

[soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/11755787" params="show_comments=true&auto_play=false&color=073642" width="100%" height="81" ]

But is it noise-art or just digital sinister?

The hatches have been nailed shut, the creak of a rusty armature silenced with globdules of lubricant. And There It Was, the website; the event, stuttered into life.

UPDATE: The event took place on Thursday 23rd of June 2011 at Chisenhale Gallery. Photos from the event can be found here:

We start from the position of the ‘and’. A neglected conjunction, moulded by the incidents, events or ideas that came before – often just before – its… ]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:33:57 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/out-loud/and-there-it-is http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/errors-in-things-and-the-friendly-medium

What is it about a particular media that makes it successful? Drawing a mini history from printing-press smudges to digital compression artefacts this lecture considers the value of error, chance and adaptation in contemporary media. Biological evolution unfolds through error, noise and mistake. Perhaps if we want to maximise the potential of media, of digital text and compressed file formats, we first need to determine their inherent redundancy. Or, more profoundly, to… ]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 08:39:59 -0700 http://machinemachine.net/text/ideas/errors-in-things-and-the-friendly-medium http://machinemachine.net/text/out-loud/audio-essay-on-pharaohs-cults-and-parasitism

audio essay : On Pharaohs, Cults and Parasitism (The Condition of Division)

Originally broadcast on Resonance 104.4 FM as part of Antepress’ Digestives series, Monday 24th May 2010

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Introducing the MachineMachine Podcast!

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MachineMachine /noise is an unintentional, somewhat rhythmic, eruption involving to-and-fro movements (oscillations) of one or more aural parts. MachineMachine /noise instigates involuntary cultural tremors and…

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This text was read out loud on the 21st November, as part of the Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art-Writing, held at The Whitechapel Gallery

Thanks must go to Maria Fusco and Francesco Pedraglio for asking me to take part…

In one of the most uncanny revelations in science fiction, the protagonist of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine awakes from his anthropic slumber: the museum is filled with artefacts not from his past, but from his future.

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