In this ongoing series, I translate music into drawings. Each drawing records impressions of live music made at gigs with a ball-point pen, which I later scan and invert on Photoshop. The descriptions record the musicians, venue and date. I was inspired by Pauline Oliveros’ definition of aphorisms - “(the ear tells the eye where to look)” - to relate gesturally to a time-based medium I care deeply about. It’s become a form of synaesthetic call-and-response, a near-impossible task of signal transmission which I undertake in free form, out of deep respect and admiration for the atmospheres musicians manage to create from silence. These atmospheres are collective, sensitive and rare: they encloak as they engage. It’s also a way of exposing my hands, ears, and eyes’ capacity to translate, or transduce, nerve-neurology perception pathways we don’t yet have names for.

Contrafacts, Reference Point, 14/12/24 (California Dreamin')

Noel Art, Mü, 30/10/24

Contrafacts, Reference Point, 14/12/24 (Nicko's inflections on a never-ending drone)

Musicking, AMP Studios, 21/07/24 (Ash's drumsticks)

"Sometimes I pee in the garden when we've got guests," AMP Studios, 21/07/24

Shabaka Hutchings, Mü, 14/04/24

Loraine James, Café Oto, 28/02/24

Loraine James (Glitch this Bitch), Café Oto, 28/02/24

Sam Gendel, Barbican, 14/11/23

Stork Diet, Café Oto, 8/11/23

Studium P, Café Oto, 8/11/23

Augustė Vickunaitė, Café Oto, 8/11/23

Sholto Dobie, Café Oto, 8/11/23

Flanafi into Dean Blunt (not live), Home, 28/10/23

Aleksandir & Supu (ambient set), Iklectik, 25/10/23

Giant Steps (Mad Professor), Hackney Baths, 15/10/23

Salami Rose Joe Louis, The Victoria, 11/10/23

Xhosa Cole, Pat Thomas, Josh Vadiveloo, Gary Wilcox, Café Oto, 24/09/23