“‘Magisterial, precise, unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on JG Ballard”, originally published in 032c, no. 18, winter 2009/10, pp. 126-9. Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognizable music critics around. He possesses a willingness to tackle …
‘Negative Acoustic Space’: Ballardian Sound Art
> Originally published in the catalogue for the exhibition ‘J.G. Ballard, Autopsy of the New Millennium’, held at the CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, October 2008. The piece accompanied the soundtrack of Ballardian music, which I curated …
Cousin Silas: Another Flask of Ballard
Originally published on ballardian.com, 3 October 2007. Cousin Silas is a producer of dark-ambient soundscapes. He has five albums to his name and a few EPs, spiking the vein of glacial electronica. His work evokes …
Liquid Architecture: In the Beginning
I was recently asked about my involvement in the Liquid Architecture festival, so I thought I’d explain it here. Liquid Architecture originated in 2000 at RMIT University when I was working at RMIT’s Union Arts …
‘Magisterial, Precise, Unsettling’: Simon Reynolds on the Ballard Connection
Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognisable music critics around — or at least his style is, not least for its willingness to tackle pop music as an art form worthy of sustained intellectual …
Philip Brophy: Northern Void
Flyer for Northern Void. Originally published on Sleepy Brain, 19 February 2007. Last night I attended the second (and last, for now) screening of Philip Brophy’s 50-minute film Northern Void, billed as a “live cinema …
A Whirlpool with Seductive Furniture: The John Foxx Interview
by Simon Sellars an image from John Foxx’s Cathedral Oceans project John Foxx, the former lead singer of Ultravox, is an undisputed electronic music pioneer. Before Midge Ure came along, the band’s three Foxx-driven albums, …
Melatonin: Warping Dreamscapes
Melatonin, photo: Kirsten Bradley by Simon Sellars Originally published in RealTime Magazine, #62, August/September 2004. I’m told “sleep music” is a new genre: music to listen to while dozing off. Emboldened by this, I visited …
Watching While You Sleep
Lawrence English & Philip Samartzis, LA4, 2003 by Simon Sellars ‘Watching While You Sleep’ by Simon Sellars. Originally published on the Liquid Architecture website, July 2004. Melbourne’s festival of sound art, Liquid Architecture, originated in …
Liquid Architecture (Filter mag)
Bruce & Nat: photo by Rebecca Cannon. by Simon Sellars ‘Liquid Architecture’. Originally published in Filter magazine, #57, Jul-Oct 2004 Melbourne’s festival of sound art, Liquid Architecture, originated in 2000 at RMIT University, when RMIT’s …
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