In a later, more successful, foray into academia, I ended up working with people from the Sheffield School of Health and Related Research whose offices were built where Western Works used to be.
The Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle double-bill at Sheffield Uni. c.1980 was a real ear-opener! Loved walking down Portobello early in the morning in the 70s, late for lectures again, hearing the banging and clanking coming from Western Works. In a later, more successful, foray into academia, I ended up working with people from the Sheffield School of Health and Related Research whose offices were built where Western Works used to be.
The Cabaret Voltaire and Throbbing Gristle double-bill at Sheffield Uni. c.1980 was a real ear-opener!
that I used to watch on an old VHS taped off Snub or the Chart Show.
Steveri - yeah Chris Watson has done some amazing work since. His Ravens chattering is something else.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, psychologist and climber.
QuoteSteveri - yeah Chris Watson has done some amazing work since. His Ravens chattering is something else.I went on a field recording workshop with Chris a few years back, predictably excellent and an absolute bargain considering he is the world's best.His recorded output is well worth a deep dive, although a lot of it appears on a casual listen to be more-or-less straight field recordings, they're almost all highly sculpted compositions of cinematic scope. On his masterpiece El Tren Fantasma several sections transition fully to music concrete, El Divisadero being the jam (headphones strongly recommended):
Definitely heard that tune used in ambient mixes before, it's an absolute banger...edit: ah yes this one, astrangelyisolatedplace's reinterpretation of the KLF Chill Out: https://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/blog/2019/10/24/portals-the-klfs-chill-out-a-new-dimension