It's All Gone Weird

Very sad to hear that Eliane Radigue has died. https://cdm.link/eliane-radigue-portraits/ https://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2026/02/24/la-compositrice-eliane-radigue-pionniere-de-la-musique-electronique-est-morte-a-l-age-de-94-ans_6668123_3382.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89liane_Radigue - W.A.Davison

Here is the latest album by The Tiny Orchestra , a.k.a. John Halfpenny . I love the intimate feel of these audio experiments and improvisations which, I believe, are all solo creations - an orchestra of one is, indeed, quite tiny. John releases a full album almost every month so there is a large back catalog to dig into! Enjoy! https://thetinyorchestra2.bandcamp.com/album/bubble - W.A.Davison

The fifth episode of my 2018 radio art series "The Long Play" has been reissued on Bandcamp today, Bandcamp Friday!  It is available to stream or download for free or you can PWYW. https://w-a-davison.bandcamp.com/album/the-long-play-5 - W.A.Davison

I am very happy to have contributed audio gunk and detritus to the first episode of Wino Lodge Wireless Hour! Here's the description from Resonance Extra: The Wino Lodge Wireless Hour https://chocolatemonk.co.uk/Index.html Dylan Nyoukis, Karen Constance and friends beam out an hour of audio collage discombobulation direct from Chocolate Monk HQ. A sonic salve for overstimulated ears. In this first episode, they are joined by WA Davison, Carl Krueger, Andy Heck Boyd, Seymour Glass, Pratap Singh, Dylan Burchett, Michael Barthel, Terry Townsend, Fletcher Wright, AN EEL, Kasper Melted, Adam Buffington, Hari Hardman, Julian Bradley, Brandstifter, Ypsmael, Cristano Carosi, Slow Listener, Chik White, Eric Demastes, Joe Davin & Hardworking Families Check out the show at Mixcloud - https://www.mixcloud.com/resonanceextra/the-wino-lodge-wireless-hour-1-15-january-2026/ - W.A.Davison

My second article on cassette culture, this time focused on the Xcreteria label, has been published in Untitled 11 and is available from the buried in slag and debris shop! https://buriedinslaganddebris.bigcartel.com/product/copy-of-untitled-zine-issue-11-fall-2025 - W.A.Davison

Here's a blast from the past (for me, at least). Back in 1988, I recorded my friends The Flies (Gerry Petrash, Stephen Maher, Jim Davis, Rodger McKinley) running through some originals and cover tunes in a makeshift recording studio (i.e. bedroom with blankets and egg crates on the walls) on Oxford St., Halifax. The sessions were recorded on my Tascam Porta-One four-track cassette recorder - one of the few times I took on the role of recording engineer for someone else's music. I don't know how useful I was as an engineer but we had fun and the recordings turned out okay (for bedroom demos recorded to cassette). Flash forward almost four decades and Gerry Petrash has embarked on an archival project digitizing and publishing recordings by some of his old bands, including  The Flies  and his 1990s Sapporo, Japan-based group  Cactus Blanket ( https://www.cactusblanket.ca/home ). Yesterday, Gerry posted a video featuring one of the songs from that 1988 Halifax recording se...