Back to raving

Coming back to raving, some new reference points:

Cal Mac 'Agony to Ecstacy'

https://www.fvu.co.uk/watch/agony-to-ecstasy

A film about intimacy, addiction, ecstasy, raving and the freedom of open rural space. Mixes scenes in the Scottish countryside with scenes of clubbing.

Artist Emmie McLuskey essay https://www.fvu.co.uk/read/writing/states-of-being

Plastique Fantastique

http://www.plastiquefantastique.org

After the tutorial with Angela McClanahan-Simmons, I was able to find some more commonality in my various research. Taking ecstasy and dancing in a throbbing crowd is a kind of ritual where you can experience a temporary bodily and cognitive shift. This liminal, dark and comforting place is my experience of the 'weird' eerie. It is a positive experience inside the darkness.

Other useful references/connections are around cognitive archaeology, states of decay:

Arnold Vangennep

Mary Douglas - the function of taboo

Alexa Hare - Nemoralia

Singing to the seaweed - score responses (updated)

I invited some musicians/composers to interpret to the Singing to the Seaweed score. Passing the score on to someone else, its a reinterpretation of a place and an experience. Feelings and sensations re-imagines. What does that open up? Do I invite more people to interpret the score? How does this fit into my wider work? Where does it fit conceptually? I am not sure where to go with this thread next.

Singing to the seaweed by Nicholas Escobar

Listen here

He used shells, synthesizers, distorted soundscapes amongst other sounds to make the piece.

Cuppa by Joe Coghill

Listen here

My original sound peice

Listen here

Daily ink drawings: 'Doom' (ongoing)

I have recently started drawing each day with ink and pen on a5 paper. Feeling at a bit of a block with my other main project, I decided to turn to other interests. These drawings are a way for me to experiment with and improve my technical abilities with ink. The theme of the drawing at the moment is the feeling and experience of 'doom'.