Tag Archives: Simon Whetham

Stijf van de schrik overeind schieten, met de stuipen op het lijf gejaagd. De gordijnen in of een snoekduik makend naar de stereo om de kwelling de nek om te draaien… Het kan verkeren met Against Nature van Simon Whetham. De verzameling fieldrecordings van de maximale noisy soort wordt dan ook niet samengebald gebracht of […]

Det absolut første, man undrer sig over, når man sætter den seneste plade fra den engelske lydkunstner Simon Whetham på, er titlen. Han har ad flere omgange ydet bidrag til det fremragende radioprogram Framework, som i mange år har arbejdet for at udbrede kendskab og kærlighed til lydkunst, field recordings og naturlyde. Fra en kunstner, […]

Simon Whetham has a considerable history of taking sound recordings – often environmental sounds – and working them into something unrecognisable, by means of various sonic and software mutations. Against Nature emerged from an exploration of what Whetham describes as ‘errors and failures’, using ‘badly built microphones, over-burdened amplifiers, motors driven by sound impulses, misbehaving […]

If field recordings are often the attempt to freeze-frame nature in all its everlasting purity, then Simon Whetham’s latest album of manipulated ambient is decidedly Against Nature. Conceived as part of his ongoing project to record certain environmental sounds and then allow incidental disturbances to creep into their engineering/mixing/production, the Londoner’s new collection of five […]

‘Against Nature’, comprises of five tracks with the same title (that of the album). Coupled with a press release that provides more in a literary context than its audio companion could ever, can make your mind boggle as to just what medication people are on (or should be). Regardless of the reference to the decadent […]

Soon to come as cat.no. 103 of the Portoguese Cronica Electronica-imprint is Simon Whetham’s most recent album entitled “Against Nature” which consists of five takes of the same name, all recorded and generated throughout his residency at the Agder Kunstsenter in Kristiansand / Norway in late 2013. “Against Nature [1]” is a quiet, partly repetetive […]