A few quick-fire audio jobs for the Guardian, largely made, as Python once said, by putting them on to a piece of wood and banging a few nails through them
Comics and cities
A piece for the Guardian on how comics and cities go hand in hand – starring Julius Knipl, Spider-Man, a man who lives behind a billboard.
The invisible man
Had the pleaseure of meeting science writer Philip Ball recently, and I interviewed him for the Guardian's Science Weekly podcast about his new book, Invisible: the Dangerous Allure of the Unseen. If you've ever wondered what possible use there could be for scooping out a live owl's eyes and burying them, get yourself a copy.
Click here to have a listen – it's around 25 minutes long.
Actually, while I'm on, here's another couple of interviews for the same podcast, from a few months ago: Trevor Cox on the sonic wonders of our planet, and Michael Bond on the "power of others".
The Acoustic City
Here's a book I contributed a track to: The Acoustic City, edited by Matthew Gandy and BJ Nilsen. The blurb, he say …
The Acoustic City consists of a series of cutting-edge essays on sound and the city accompanied by a specially commissioned CD with field recordings, compositions, and music. The book will comprise five thematic sections: sound mappings including cartographic and conceptual approaches to the representation and interpretation of soundscapes; sound cultures including specific associations between place, music and sound; acoustic flânerie and the recording of urban sounds (including bats, birds and urban nature) as well as reflections on the “auditory self” with links to cultural history and literary theory; acoustic ecology including relationships between architecture, sound, and urban design; and the politics of sound extending to human well-being, noise abatement, and the changing characteristics of ambient sound. This innovative essay collection will be of interest to a wide range of disciplines including architecture, cultural studies, geography, musicology and urban sociology.
Columbite Tantalite bags a Webby
Columbite Tantalite, a short film written and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor for which I did sound editing and music, has been awarded a prize in the short drama category of the Webbys.