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As well as writing for magazines, I am also working on several book projects
- including a book on acoustics, commissioned for the Wooden
Books series; also the first ever biography of Brian Heddon and his
1960's psychedelic pop band Raspberry Parade.
Sound On Sound is the world's leading Music Technology magazine. The paper version sells around the world, but many readers use an on-line subscription. The SOS archive now gives free access to all articles featured in the magazine - but only when they are over 8 months old. More recent articles can only be accessed by either taking a subscription, or by paying per article.
The February
2009 SOS included a feature about Daphne Oram's optically-controlled synthesiser,
based on an interview with Graham Wrench - the engineer who designed and
built the prototype.
Link to the
article: ORAMICS
The Story of the Radiophonic Workshop appeared in the April 08 issue of SOS and was timed to coincide with the Workshop's 50th anniversary. When originally printed it ran to 12 pages. Now translated into Japanes, it has also appeared in Sound & Recordib.
It can now be read on-line at:
For
the January 2008 issue of SOS I wrote a detailed feature on the new mp3
surround format developed by the Fraunhofer company, and its implications
for the future of surround sound.
Read it at: MP3 SURROUND
In April 2009 writer and Platonist John Michell died. The May issue of FT included a 16 page celebration of John's life and work. it was printed only days before he died but sadly, John never managed to read it. My contribution was John's last interview:
John Michell Interview Pages 1 2 3 4
I also wrote
a long comic poem about John:
The
Ballad of Generous John
FT December
2007 issue carried my six-page feature about the making of Alternative
3 - a notorious 1977 TV hoax.
The article was based on an exclusive interview with the film's director Christopher Miles - breaking, for the first time, his thirty years of silence and allowing me access to his personal archive of production stills and press clippings. The article as it appeared in FT has been scanned and can be read from here:
The April
2008 issue of FT carried my unusual archaeology story, which can be read
here:
January
2009 - Dowsing and Avebury.
Roger Partridge,
the Yatesbury weatherman.
March 2008.
WEATHERMAN
Pt. 1 WEATHERMAN
Pt. 2
Light Pollution
April 2008
LIGHT PAGE 1
LIGHT
PAGE 2
LIGHT PAGE 3
LIGHT PAGE 4
June
2008 - shoeing the dray horses at Wadworth's Brewery in Devizes.