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My book 'Audible Heat' published 28th February 2025 on @tenementpress

'A wonderful bringing together of natural and cultural histories.'

– Tom McCarthy, author The Remainder & Man Booker Prize nominee

'A work of great refinement and intelligence, entailing some beautifully crafted surprises.'

– Elizabeth Price, artist & 2012 Turner Prize winner

'Almost Borgesian in the levity by which it seems effortlessly to embody encylopaedic multitudes ... we understand – and appreciate – the intricate assembly of fragments, quotations and images that factor in distance, as much as intimacy, as an engine to the work ... Audible Heat balances both the warmth of genuine passion for its material with a controlled and 'cool' gaze that makes for a singular outcome.'

– Gareth Evans, writer, editor, film & event producer

'... nibbling at the edges of philosophy, entomology, anthropology, poetry, music, film and diverse technologies ... like a latter-day Langland, the author “wente wide in this world wondres to here” only to find in a sound at once familiar and uncanny, eternal and pregnant with anticipation and dread, a hall of mirrors for the restless human soul. Like the sun, the cicada looms like likeness itself and we are led down garden paths that form a maze of amazing information, suggestion and nuance ... It also speaks of the limits of species entrainment, of our faltering efforts at empathic behaviour, and tells us a lot about how we act in relation to other creatures, how culture sits with nature. Perhaps more important is how it subtly suggests how we should or might act.'

 – Ed Baxter, writer, sound-artist, co-founder Resonance, co-editor Works of Thomas De Quincey

'Beautifully written.'

– Bhanu Kapil, poet & Windham-Campbell Literature Prize winner

tenementpress.com/Audible-Heat

My book 'Audible Heat' published 28th February 2025 on @tenementpress

'A wonderful bringing together of natural and cultural histories.'

– Tom McCarthy, author The Remainder & Man Booker Prize nominee

'A work of great refinement and intelligence, entailing some beautifully crafted surprises.'

– Elizabeth Price, artist & 2012 Turner Prize winner

'Almost Borgesian in the levity by which it seems effortlessly to embody encylopaedic multitudes ... we understand – and appreciate – the intricate assembly of fragments, quotations and images that factor in distance, as much as intimacy, as an engine to the work ... Audible Heat balances both the warmth of genuine passion for its material with a controlled and 'cool' gaze that makes for a singular outcome.'

– Gareth Evans, writer, editor, film & event producer

'... nibbling at the edges of philosophy, entomology, anthropology, poetry, music, film and diverse technologies ... like a latter-day Langland, the author “wente wide in this world wondres to here” only to find in a sound at once familiar and uncanny, eternal and pregnant with anticipation and dread, a hall of mirrors for the restless human soul. Like the sun, the cicada looms like likeness itself and we are led down garden paths that form a maze of amazing information, suggestion and nuance ... It also speaks of the limits of species entrainment, of our faltering efforts at empathic behaviour, and tells us a lot about how we act in relation to other creatures, how culture sits with nature. Perhaps more important is how it subtly suggests how we should or might act.'

 – Ed Baxter, writer, sound-artist, co-founder Resonance, co-editor Works of Thomas De Quincey

'Beautifully written.'

– Bhanu Kapil, poet & Windham-Campbell Literature Prize winner

tenementpress.com/Audible-Heat

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Performed 'Friendly Printer' at @cafeotodalston last month. Now filmed in one take, "link in bio". Made and uploaded in 100 pieces to YouTube a decade ago by a group of unknown American college students, I put together all takes and outtakes of this un-viewed movie and wrote a score. My performance filmed by @valenbacci. Thanks go to Hewlett Packard @hpe

Car on the hard shoulder. Street View clothing. Wearing locations. Screenshots of a small town, cut and sewn to shirt. Shoulder corresponding to shoulder. I like the idea that an item of clothing or an object can contain all the elements of one event in a particular time and place. I enjoy those orthodox and medieval Christian objects that are truly chaotic collages, often involving multiple mediums, with each part representing an aspect of a single significant occurrence.

Car on the hard shoulder. Street View clothing. Wearing locations. Screenshots of a small town, cut and sewn to shirt. Shoulder corresponding to shoulder. I like the idea that an item of clothing or an object can contain all the elements of one event in a particular time and place. I enjoy those orthodox and medieval Christian objects that are truly chaotic collages, often involving multiple mediums, with each part representing an aspect of a single significant occurrence.

Car on the hard shoulder. Street View clothing. Wearing locations. Screenshots of a small town, cut and sewn to shirt. Shoulder corresponding to shoulder. I like the idea that an item of clothing or an object can contain all the elements of one event in a particular time and place. I enjoy those orthodox and medieval Christian objects that are truly chaotic collages, often involving multiple mediums, with each part representing an aspect of a single significant occurrence.

Car on the hard shoulder. Street View clothing. Wearing locations. Screenshots of a small town, cut and sewn to shirt. Shoulder corresponding to shoulder. I like the idea that an item of clothing or an object can contain all the elements of one event in a particular time and place. I enjoy those orthodox and medieval Christian objects that are truly chaotic collages, often involving multiple mediums, with each part representing an aspect of a single significant occurrence.

More time skin stretch, running in dreams.

More time skin stretch, running in dreams.

More time skin stretch, running in dreams.

A missed bus, a time-critical moment printed into fabric and stretched by hand, distorting the intricate fibres and atomic structure of the material (time), under strain through pulling and shrinking and held in place using pins.

A missed bus, a time-critical moment printed into fabric and stretched by hand, distorting the intricate fibres and atomic structure of the material (time), under strain through pulling and shrinking and held in place using pins.

A missed bus, a time-critical moment printed into fabric and stretched by hand, distorting the intricate fibres and atomic structure of the material (time), under strain through pulling and shrinking and held in place using pins.

A missed bus, a time-critical moment printed into fabric and stretched by hand, distorting the intricate fibres and atomic structure of the material (time), under strain through pulling and shrinking and held in place using pins.

A missed bus, a time-critical moment printed into fabric and stretched by hand, distorting the intricate fibres and atomic structure of the material (time), under strain through pulling and shrinking and held in place using pins.

A missed bus, a time-critical moment printed into fabric and stretched by hand, distorting the intricate fibres and atomic structure of the material (time), under strain through pulling and shrinking and held in place using pins.

Lee Van Cleef as a Soundman, a former U.S. Navy rank for a sonar technician. "My heart is full of longing for the secret of the sea."

Self Soundtrack (2022). Dancing first to silence, then soundtracking myself using guitar.

On Resonance now until midnight, The Seddon Tapes Marathon, A special extended Wavelength broadcast, originally aired in 2013. The Seddon Tapes Marathon presents the voice of the late Captain Maurice Seddon (Royal Signals, retired).

Among other inventions, Captain Seddon had devised a means of recording telephone conversations onto cassette tape using a unique footswitch system which only allowed one person to speak at a time. Whether this was a deliberate feature to prevent the other person interrupting, or a rudimentary workaround for the difficulties involved in getting audio directly from the British Telecom landlines is unclear. William English later obtained Seddon's blessing to air these recordings, which first began appearing on the weekly programme Wavelength.

William English first met Maurice Seddon around 1978 when they were both working as motorcycle despatch riders. William recalls "at that first meeting I never imagined that around 30 years later I would be grubbing around on the floor of (Seddon's home) Datchet Cottage gathering hundreds of dusty audio cassettes. (...) The local council - who were responsible for clearing the house and garden - considered the vast quantity of cassettes to be of no value; they had been swept into a grimy pile in the middle of the floor. These cassettes had already been retrieved from a local tip by Maurice, and many of them had labels describing the original contents such as Azerbaijani folk music. These were then recycled - recorded over - but sometimes not quite fully erased, so that a distant trace of the previous recording might be faintly heard in the background. Maurice habitually recorded most of his telephone conversations unbeknownst to the person at the other end".

See also the book To Farse All Things (2025) by William English and Sandra Cross.

Choice selections appear on The Seddon Tapes Volume One published by Paradigm Discs.

With thanks to Ed Baxter, James Tregaskis, and Dan Wilson.

I gave an artist talk to the Experimental Production module at @uniwestminster. There is no photographic evidence of any kind so this composite image has had to be made. Thanks to student(s) who sent me nice messages afterwards (anonymous screenshot, second slide). And thanks to @theself____ for the kind invitation.

I gave an artist talk to the Experimental Production module at @uniwestminster. There is no photographic evidence of any kind so this composite image has had to be made. Thanks to student(s) who sent me nice messages afterwards (anonymous screenshot, second slide). And thanks to @theself____ for the kind invitation.