I’m finally in the Noirvember spirit! It’s been a busy time, that’s my excuse. But when I saw that YouTube was now hosting podcasts, I thought it would be the perfect time to hotwire SURREAL NOIR and get back into the rat race. It’s going to take a bit of doing, because I have to remove the music (except for original works) to prevent copyright blocks on the videos. So these will be slimmed down episodes that focus on the texts and analyses.
Original Audio 19 Jul 21
Episode One: An introduction to the dark places where the noir and the surreal intersect and the shadows that grow there.
Audio [now removed]:
Clips from In A Lonely Place (1950)
Pauline Oliveros: The Last Time/La Ultima Vez from Ghostdance (1998)
Various Artists: Musica Sveciae tracks 2,3,4,5,7 and 9 (1991)
Laura Cannell & Rhodri Davies: The Glimmering from Feathered Swing of the Raven (2012)
Sarah Angliss: Raven (Memory) from Air Loom (2019)
Kassia Flux: The Song for After from Ergot in the Wine (2019)
Texts:
Leonora Carrington: Down Below (1983)
Pauline Oliveros: Deep Listening (2005)
Dorothy B. Hughes: In a Lonely Place (1947)
Remedios Varo: Letters, Dreams & Other Writings (translated by Margaret Carson 2018)
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