"Before Eternal Silence" was a text commissioned for the LP version of Jani Ruscica's work "Felt The Moonlight on my Feet." In the work, a "tap dancer is presented with poetry chosen by Ruscica for reasons including their political and social censorship during the course of their existence. Each poem has been translated into Morse Code, itself further translated and interpreted by the tap dancer into a dance piece". Inspired by the ambitions behind Ruscica's work and by my previous research into sonic codes, the resulting text involves the most complicated (and least legible) constraints that I've used.

Above is the cover for a cassette tape which I had held onto since January 28th, 1996. The cassette contained a track in lieu of a paper for the Haçienda Must Be Rebuilt conference held at Manchester's nightclub, The Haçienda (RIP). The track, "Swarmachines" was attributed to "switch/***collapse/CCRU" and featured my voice, alongside those of Sadie Plant, Mark Fisher and Nick Land. Urbanomic digitised and posted the audio track, the text for which had appeared in Abstract Culture, later in nomadsland (and I believe it was translated into Serbo-Croat, though can find no evidence of this). It was republished in #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader, being mentioned in the 2017 Guardian review of accelerationism. The CCRU connections seems to be stirring at the moment with me being asked questions about this period by Simon Hammond for his excellent article in the New Left Review about Mark Fisher.

September 12th, 2019: at Cafe OTO for "Animal Sounds" - part of their Music and Other Living Creatures Programme, a performance-lecture that dug back to the 90s to find those points where I'd written of encounters with the more-than-human.

March 21st, 2019: at Felix Art Museum, Brussels, talking about "Concealing and Revealing The Field," Igloo White, sound as camouflage, masking, etc.
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January 24th, 2019: at Iklectik for launch of Salomé Voegelin's The Political Possibility of Sound, another performance-lecture, this time mining my archive for "Thirty Years of Height," finding those moments across three decades where I'd found myself with new friends at different points above ground.

The fourth manifestation of A Crossing Bell took place at the Antwerp Art Weekend in May. A selection of bells bought from flea markets in exchanges with recent residents to various cities in Europe (Paris, Chania, Brighton, Bruxelles, Lisboa) were made available to gallery goers to ring and offer a prayer of safe passage. The struck bells were recorded. Also exhibiting in the show curated by Sam Watson were Jani Ruscica (FI) and Christian Jendreiko (DE).

Two workshops: the first with Alice Eldridge at the University of Oulu, organised around field recording, sound mapping, sound walking and sound writing; the second, with Sasha Englemann and Mark Peter Wright, was our 'field' contribution to a TECHNE: Conflux programme that involved seminars and workshops during the year and culminated in a summer school in Bude, Cornwall.