Archive for the ‘Brian Eno’ Category
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Simon Sellars •
Oct 3rd, 2007 •
Category:
Brian Eno, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, William Burroughs, entropy, interviews, music, paranormal, urban ruins
Cousin Silas has created two albums inspired by the works of J.G. Ballard. Simon Sellars spoke to Silas about Ballard, Lovecraft, Forteana, Moorcock, Eno, Tarkovsky — all the essentials.
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Mike Holliday •
Jul 9th, 2007 •
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Brian Eno, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, Shepperton, Steven Spielberg, William Burroughs, audio, film, interviews, literature
Michael Moorcock, J.G. Ballard and JGB’s partner Claire Walsh in September, 2006 (photo courtesy Linda Moorcock).
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Interview by Mike Holliday
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Michael Moorcock has been a prolific writer and editor for the last five decades. Born in London, he was editing his first magazine by the age of seventeen, and started writing genre fiction professionally as soon as […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jun 2nd, 2007 •
Category:
Brian Eno, New Worlds, Philip K. Dick, Salvador Dali, William Burroughs, audio, entropy, interviews, science fiction, short stories
Interview by Simon Sellars.
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 discourse rather than as a fleeting moment of adolescent flash. Reynolds breaks new ground, melding unbridled […]
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Simon Sellars •
May 10th, 2007 •
Category:
Brian Eno, Michael Moorcock, New Worlds, academia, alternate worlds, architecture, gated communities, literature, reviews
The UEA Studio: Conference Headquarters (photo: Simon Sellars).
I attended From Shanghai to Shepperton: An International Conference on J.G. Ballard at the University of East Anglia on the weekend, and I’m suffering a bit of a comedown. I always get a bit melancholy when these temporary autonomous zones collapse and everyone returns to virtual communication. Especially […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jan 28th, 2007 •
Category:
Australia, Ballardosphere, Brian Eno, consumerism, sport
Can’t let this one go…
In a Sunday Times piece on the ‘curtailment of working-class pleasures’, Rod Liddle writes:
…what truly annoys me is … the way in which this government — and previous governments — view football supporters. If you’re unsure what this attitude is, read JG Ballard’s new novel, Kingdom Come.
This is, as usual, a […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jul 2nd, 2006 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Brian Eno, audio
We recently interviewed RE/Search’s Mike Ryan about his DJ set at the RE/Search–JG Ballard launch party last year…
Now, on his always interesting blog, Premeditated, Mike has explained in further detail the thinking behind each selection. Mike’s an insightful Ballard scholar and I agree with him when he said that thinking through Ballardian connections in music […]
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Cat Hope •
Jun 29th, 2006 •
Category:
Australia, Brian Eno, David Cronenberg, audio, features, film
As part of our Ballardian Music series, Cat Hope looks back at Howard Shore’s soundtrack for the David Cronenberg adaptation of Crash.
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Cat Hope is an Australian musician and academic, based in Perth, Western Australia. Besides performing in the bands Lux Mammmoth and Gata Negra, she also performs solo noise music using bass guitar. Cat lectures […]
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Simon Sellars •
Jun 15th, 2006 •
Category:
Ballardosphere, Brian Eno, David Cronenberg, Futurists, Steven Spielberg, William Burroughs, architecture, audio, interviews
by Simon Sellars
I think I’m the only person I know who doesn’t own a record player or a single record. I’ve never understood why, because my maternal grandparents were lifelong teachers of music, and my father as a choirboy once sang solo in Manchester Cathedral. But that gene seems to have skipped me.”
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- JG Ballard, […]