The Bodmin Moor Zodiac: A Heavenly Sign on the Earth Grid

Musical Concrete

A page from the book

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Beautiful-David-McCandless/dp/0007294662

I don’t know that I ever intended my music project Nocturnal Emissions to exemplify a genre – or sub-genre – of rock music. But I suppose often “genre” doesn’t just mean “style”, it can mean a collection of attitudes. And you know, we weren’t following a genre, we were creating it.

“Industrial” implies something to do with the alienation experienced by individuals in a society where money is king. “Ambient” means to do with your environment.

If I was doing a diagram, I'd place us a lot closer to dance music, dub and post-punk than metal.

But this diagram has to make more sense than back in 80s when Virgin Megastore would have Nocturnal Emissions in the same bin as the Nolans and the Notsensibles.

Though there were political and philosophical differences between ourselves and Coil, I can’t deny that we were on friendly terms back in the ‘80s .

I like this book, “Information is Beautiful”. I was browsing through at it at the Port Eliot Festival the other week. Here it is in a pile stacked behind Tim Smit and Jarvis Cocker:

Check it out:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Information-Beautiful-David-McCandless/dp/0007294662

ImMApp: An Immersive Database of Sound Art

J Milo Taylor is a London-based musician, artist, academic and writer whose interests include site-responsive installation, interactive robotics, sound art, multimedia environments, improvisation and performance. His work has been shown internationally and he maintains a commitment to interpersonal, intercultural and intermedial exchange as productive of original and context-specific creative outcomes.

His PhD project "ImMApp: An Immersive Database of Sound Art" involves a critical mapping of historical and contemporary sound art.


ImMApp: Ver 0.1: Web Interface from j milo taylor on Vimeo.


ImMApp: Ver 0.2: Installation Environment from j milo taylor on Vimeo.