Wind, Sand and Stars
They are not searching for us yet, or, to be more precise, they are searching elsewhere for us. Probably in Arabia. And in fact we shall hear no plane until tomorrow, after abandoning our own. And that single distant flight will mean nothing to us. Black specks...
Interstellar Dance Machine
Listen to Interstellar Dance Machine byAble Baker Charlie on hearthis.at Intelligent Dance Music (IDM) gets a bad rep because it sounds pretentious and twatty. From memory, the term comes from an early Warp records compilation (Artificial Intelligence) being reviewed...
Intergalactic Disco Music
Listen to Intergalactic Disco Music byAble Baker Charlie on hearthis.at Another day, another (banging) IDM mix. This is actually the second of a pair of mixes, with this one being a little wilder around the edges - think glitchy beats, etc. IDM is music for...
The Penelopiad
It was stupid of Icarius to try to drown the daughter of a naiad, however. Water is our element, it is our birthright. Although we are not such good swimmers as our mothers, we do have a way of floating, and we're well connected among the fish and seabirds. A flock of...
Ways of Seeing
Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never...