Tin Ear: Translating Ballard’s Novels into Sound – A Spotify Playlist. From thrash metal to glam to new romantic to ambient to folk to J-pop to dubious pop. Some reverentially Ballardian, some accidentally Ballard…
An excerpt from ‘Outpost 13: The Atrocity Exhibition’, directed by Mark C and produced by Outpost 13: Stuart Argabright, Mark C and Kent Heine. The film is based on J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition, part of a performance piece featuring o13 performing the soundtrack live.
It’s often said that for a writer who claimed never to listen to music, Ballard has had an inordinate influence on a whole ecosystem of musicians. But sometimes more fruitful connections can be found in the slipstream, in parallel worlds where sui generis artists ply their trade in different fields with equally brilliant results. Brian Eno is such a musician, and this is a review of Geeta Dayal’s book about his 1975 album, Another Green World
The story of Savoy Books is one of the strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. All of those qualities are equally applicable to Savoy Records, the music arm of Savoy’s black empire, as Simon Sellars discovers when he talks to Savoy co-founder David Britton. The interview features sound clips from selected Savoy releases.
The story of Savoy Books is one of the most strangest in publishing history: a tale of lost opportunities, missed opportunities, repression, censorship, imprisonment … and, most importantly, an incredible legacy of work that continues to disturb, challenge and confront. All of those qualities are equally applicable to Savoy Records, the music arm of Savoy’s black empire, as Simon Sellars discovers when he talks to Savoy co-founder David Britton. The interview features sound clips from selected Savoy releases.
Simon Reynolds is one of the most recognizable music critics around. His work reached a peak with the publication of Rip It Up and Start Again, a timely excavation of post-punk: Cabaret Voltaire, PiL, Magazine, and so on. What’s more, J.G. Ballard was a thread throughout the book, as Reynolds charted the influence of JGB — and especially his experimental novel, The Atrocity Exhibition — on the era. In this interview, as Simon meets Simon, these topics are discussed in the wake of JGB’s death.
JG Ballard on the BBC TV documentary Synth Britannia.
The first question about J.G. Ballard’s short story The Sound-Sweep put Bill Drummond immediately on the defensive…
John Gray meets Mike Skinner, discusses Ballard.
The return of Moorcock, Hawkwind, Frendz… and Jim Cawthorn.
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