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The voices in the radio: SJ Fowler’s Electric Dada

Posted 20 May 2013 by admin | Comments Off

Sarah Lester explores the inspiration behind poet SJ Fowler’s new commission Electric Dada. Why can’t a tree be called Pluplusch, and Pluplubasch when it has been raining? 1916 Dada Manifesto, Hugo Ball Zurich seems like an unlikely city to spawn a revolutionary, “anti-art”, art movement, but in the midst of a war-ravaged Europe, the seeds [...]

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Synchronicity: Ross Sutherland and the Poetry of the Crystal Maze

Posted 13 May 2013 by admin | Comments Off

Juggling two inputs – poet Ross Sutherland insists – is better than gawping unflinchingly at one. Taking as much inspiration from Oulipo techniques as he does from Bill Murray’s unenviable predicament in Groundhog Day, Ross has been using processes of synchronicity, and his Grandad’s old VHS tape, to create a new, quasi-hypnotic poetic form. Sarah [...]

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Subliminal messages: Judas Priest and the mythology of suicide

Posted 1 May 2013 by admin | Comments Off

Sarah Lester investigates the story behind Judas – a new musical work by synth-pop group Outfit, inspired by the Judas Priest suicide trial. Mythology, music and self-annihilation have a long and tangled history. The fatal lure of dulcet tones can be traced back as far as the 8th century BC when Homer explained the disappearance [...]

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Better night vision, more vegetarianism: Stan Gooch’s Total Man

Posted 24 April 2013 by admin | Comments (1)

In the first in a new series of blogs, writer and journalist Sarah Lester investigates the strange story behind paranormal researcher Stan Gooch and his magnus opus Total Man. The mark of greatness is always intuition, not logic (Colin Wilson World) Towards the end of his life the psychologist and paranormal researcher Stan Gooch lived [...]

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