Ready? Ok! (Sports Art Exhibition)

READY? OK! 07.06.18 – 05.08.18 Ready? OK! is the Naughton Gallery’s second annual sports exhibition, exploring the world of sport through a range of media including photography, sculpture, video, and illustration. Following 2017’s Get’cha Head in the Game exhibition, Ready? OK! showcases some of the […]

Album Interview: ‘Be More Kind’ by Frank Turner.

1. Aos. Hello Frank Turner – Welcome to ‘Architect of Sound’.  Firstly Congratulations on your seventh studio album ‘Be More Kind’ which was released early May 2018. It’s a terrific album and seven studio albums is a great achievement in the world of music. Frank Turner: Thanks. 2. Aos. ‘Be […]

Live Show: The Carny Dream by Camille O’Sullivan.

Be drawn into a world of dark, light, circus and dreams as Camille O’Sullivan performs her intensely dramatic interpretations of the songs of Brel, Cave, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Bowie and more. In 2017 the singer took The Carny Dream show across the UK, selling out the Union Chapel in […]

Tango: La Cumparsita (Sheet Music for Beginners)

“La cumparsita” (from “comparsa” carnival) is a tango written in 1916 by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, with lyrics by Pascual Contursi and Enrique Pedro Maroni. It is among the most famous and recognizable tangos of all time. Roberto Firpo, director and pianist of […]

Photographs: Digital photographs (Natural, Water & Landscapes)

  Digital Photographs linked to past & present trips / holidays. Digital photographs taken by bib.   Photos captured with digital camera Sony DSC-WX50 & Canon EO5 1300D.  ‘Look for the Valleys, the green places, and fly through them.   There will always be a way […]

World Record Store Day ~ 2018.

    Record Store Day is the one day of the year when over 200 independent record shops all across the UK come together to celebrate their unique culture. Special vinyl releases are made exclusively for the day and many shops and cities host artist […]

The BBC Radiophonic Workshop at Sixty years old.

*Founded in 1958 by Desmond Briscoe and Daphne Oram, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop was home to a maverick group of experimental composers, sound engineers and musical innovators. In a series of small studios within the labyrinthine corridors of the BBC Maida Vale complex, the Workshop […]

Sound Maps for the Dreamer II (contribution)

“For a long time now we have had sound maps which use the framework digital maps provide to tag field recordings to their exact Geo-location. At Sonospace we are taking a different approach. We are looking backwards to the paper maps of long ago. We are linking […]

AOS Presents: Danish Artist & Composer, Christian SkJøDT.

1. Aos. Hello Christian SkjøDT – Welcome to ‘Architect of Sound’.  Firstly i would you to tell us a brief introduction about yourself?   Christian SkJøDT: Hello and thanks for having me. I am an artist and composer born in Aalborg, Denmark but now living in Copenhagen. I […]

Radiophrenia – the light at the end of the dial.

    BROADCASTING ACROSS GLASGOW ON 87.9FM 24 HOURS A DAY, 6TH – 19TH NOVEMBER 2017 Radiophrenia is a temporary art radio station – a two-week exploration into current trends in sound and transmission arts. Broadcasting live from Glasgow’s Centre for Contemporary Arts, the station […]

Sunn O))) live in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Sunn o))), Limelight, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 18th July 2017. From the depths of despair to the realms of the sonic conscienceless, Seattle experimental drone black metal band give Belfast an evening of highly charged fragments of vibrating sound molecules. This was a live audio experience like no […]

A New Ulster (Poetry) by Amos Greig.

Mission Statement ‘I deliberately chose to call this journal A New Ulster I have been involved in the cultural soul of Northern Ireland since 1993 and involved in the poetry world from 1988 when I designed the logo for Lapwing Publications. The name reflects the […]