January 26, 2025
‘Signals and Codes paints a picture of academic research into paranormal abilities. As early as the 1930s, investigations into ESP using two participants – ‘senders’ and ‘receivers’ who developed experiments with so called Zener cards.

Imagine you are conducting research into telekinesis or extrasensory perception and how it could be encoded and transmitted or enhanced by radio technology.

It is 1965 and you’re attending a seminar on psychokinesis in a unknown foreign city. The architecture is clean and modern – there are walkways, forums and plazas – all with carefully crafted vistas. It’s high summer and you meet with other delegates to explore your ideas and observations. It is this scenario and narrative that Signals and Codes seeks to convey through a slowly evolving series of pieces.

From the serene warm tones of ‘Documenting Observations’ to the more found sound driven ‘Signals (transmitters and receivers)’ with it’s use of radio static perhaps hinting of the forthcoming developments in communication technology.

I continue to explore this dreamlike impressionistic world through my sound palette of piano, guitar, electronics, treatments and field recordings. Signals and Codes as with The Cloud Machine, further explores a lighter tone. One which drifts and then coalesces occasionally when fragments of melody surface.‘ listen