New piece = deep dive into the totally wild, mostly untapped potential of audio essays, with a focus on Flatlines’ latest release, 𝘉𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘦𝘢 by Robin Mackay.
Can audio essays act as portals to temporal multiverses? disrupting our linear perception of time and offering a way to break free from capitalist temporal constraints? While working on this, I even had a full-on mystical experience on Unsound’s dancefloor—I underwent subjective disintegration, felt the absence-presence of Mark Fisher followed by a wave of profound grief, and understood the link between footwork, audio essays, and multiple temporalities 🌀🤷♀️
If you’re interested in the topic, be sure to check out the Sonic Faction book, Robin Mackay’s audio essay, and all the Flatlines releases. They’re absolute gems.
Infinite thanks to
@mayabkronic and
@kode9 for your time and wonderful insights, and to
@clotmagazine for the confidence and freedom.
📌Detail from a hand-drawn map of what was left of Dunwich by the 16th century (All Saints’ is visible in the middle, at a fair distance from the sea)
📌All Saints’ Church, Dunwich, before it went into the waves, ca. 1910
📌J.M.W. Turner, Dunwich, Suffolk, ca. 1827
📌Marc Fisher and Robin Mackay in Dunwich, 2001
📌Set of concentric shells, depicting the structure of 𝘉𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘚𝘦𝘢 with its four interwoven storylines and temporalities
📌Lemurian occulture: the Numogram containing the principles of their time-sorcery
📌Burroughs’ world of paranoia and drug induced delirium, temporal anomalies and the hidden escape hatches leading us out of the rhizome of our prison
🄻🄸🄽🄺 🄸🄽 🄱🄸🄾 🔗