my 12 hour radio installation Figures in A Landscape is streaming until 12 noon today on radiophrenia.scot glasgow! Tune in!
JorgeBlank
JorgeBlank
@jorgeblank.bsky.social
noise fanatic, amp worshiper, installation artist, music composer, Core of the Coalman or On Growth and Form depending viola sometimes, otherwise otherwise
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My 12-hour radio installation Figures in a Landscape will be the closing act of this years’ Radiophrenia season! 21 September 2026 12:00 am – 12:15 pm (yes, you are welcome to drop in and out!) tune in HERE: radiophrenia.scot/listen/ more info: multiplesystemsofevents.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/r...
coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com/album/moveme... Songs and nonsongs written and performed for or with my friends. Stream for free and/or Pay what you like on Bandcamp. Comes with a booklet full of full colour images and stories. Almost physical.
ArteActa 14 is out now and includes some philosophy by me around some recent data sonification pieces! read it here: www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2298162...
Some nice Monday listening: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrGL... I made this a long time ago, but was just reminded of it over the weekend. Hope you enjoy.
just a reminder-> its Bandcamp Friday so there isn't a better day to go have a listen to all the stuff I have up at coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com More than 20 years of sound explorations.
I would invite the curious to have a listen to the recordings on my bandcamp site which, in fact, go back 20 years, with one new album every so often. If you buy things off of here this Friday, I get to keep most of the money, which is also helpful: coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com
www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/show... At long last my article Norths: Navigating Instability By Ear has been published! All about what it is to communicate, or to know anything at all, emerging from a discussion of my new data-sonification-spatial-sound-installation-compositions.
microtonal excitement this Friday Cobalt Studios, Ouseburn, Newcastle...performances by Tim Shaw (perhaps singing fire tubes?) / Richard Scott (hardinger fiddle and new guitar 4tet)/ myself~ 2 new pieces one for a few notes on a Concertmate-700 and then Later for viola & feedback circuit. come over!
Its Bandcamp Friday! What better time to go have a listen to my new tape Kilometric Chameleon POV over at the Core of the Coalman bandcamp page: coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com Soundtracks to everything, plug in and glide.
Performing tonight! Wednesday Oct 22: Lubber Fiend, Newcastle_Upon_Tyne, UK: Beamsplitter (Audrey Chen and Henrik Munkeby Nørstebø) + Phil Minton, Core of the Coalman, Yeah You, Gary Wilkinson! 19:00/£10-12 Get tickets: www.fatsoma.com/e/2zocjz48/b...
Playing at Hyper Inverter festival in Fell Foot Wood in Cumbria this weekend! Lineup looks tremendous: multiplesystemsofevents.wordpress.com/2025/06/26/h...
Newcastle University lecturers are being faced with unnecessary redundancies and made to pay for years of mismanagement enacted by a bloated bureaucracy containing some who make almost £400,000 pounds a year. Read the details and sign the petition here: chng.it/sHRYwFTgn5
you can also write to the members of the executive board (the people responsible for firing our lectures and colleagues) here: www.ncl.ac.uk/executive/ex...
HYPER INVERTER FESTIVAL is happening at the end of the month! Loads of surprises guaranteed. In fact, I should be performing there but I need a lift (there and back), if you can offer one you can get in for FREE! I need to go on the Friday: www.seetickets.com/event/hyper-...
Hey everyone! We started a new-contemporary-experimental-sound-music ensemble here in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the first concert is this Tuesday at The Lit and Phil! Come see Sensible Prices! It only lasts an hour, but its so good! You'll hear my piece 106! Tix: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/sensib...
more details: Tuesday 20th May! at The Lit and Phil! 6:30 pm! Come see Sensible Prices! It only lasts an hour, but its so good! Get Tix from the Lit and Phil website. Lynx don't work here but what the hey: www.litandphil.org.uk/event/sensib...
I am presenting some writing a conference in Coimbra, Portugal at the beginning of July. I wonder if anyone knows of anyplace to play an experimental music solo set on July 04 or 05 while I am around? and, for reference, sometimes it sounds like this: coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com/album/lines
ok! its May 1st! Happy Spring! Time to practice freedom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrTz...
Sound + Environment Spatial Listening Concert Wed. 30th April Culture Lab Ballroom, NEWCASTLE UNI: 2:30pm - 3:45pm minute hidden sounds / insects and aquatic plants / postindustrial landscapes free! All welcome! blogs.ncl.ac.uk/sound-enviro...
Events both soon and exciting: multiplesystemsofevents.wordpress.com/2025/04/24/n...
for lovers of the large and open expanses of time that are opened by sound, the prickly surfaces, spaces between the stars, and pressure of oceanic tides, I have releases from Now all the way back to 2004 here, and they all can be listened to in full and purchased: coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com
thenewbridgeproject.com/events/every... I've got a little piece (a version of my piece 'Cartesian Birds'!) in this wonderful exhibition curated by Shelly Knotts that opens this Friday at The NewBridge Project here in Newcastle! Opening is Friday 5-8 then exhibition runs until April 17.
Richard Scott and I are Water Lattice and our second show w/ new piece for two violas is MONDAY NIGHT in Central Bar, Gateshead. Also performing, the reverictic Jon Collin, the diaristic ferric spread of Red Brut, and the sonic topographies of Pinnel!. Come over: wp.me/p22xGR-IZ
A bit more info about our upcoming show at Central Bar Gateshead a week from Friday: wp.me/p22xGR-Iw
It is Bandcamp Friday so all the proceeds go to artists, or in these cases artist. Fill your end of the y(ear) best of lists with contingent explosions of convulsive beauty, etc, from Core of the Coalman and OnGrowthAndForm: coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com ongrowthandform.bandcamp.com
At the beginning of this year Early Music released my album Low Guitars, and I think it is really a strange and beautiful thing. I have a pile of download codes for this album, if you'd like to have one just comment or snd a msg All the best, dreamers coreofthecoalman.bandcamp.com/album/low-gu...
A lazy internet translation of the original announcement by Klangundkrach follows, but this record by my friends Lubos and Martin is a real gem (of the type pictured on the front). And I play a bit of viola there: klangundkrach.bandcamp.com/album/ending...
I wrote up a little info on my piece Elegy for the Sherbet Fleet, which is going to have a UK premier on the 15th of October at the Star and Shadow Cinema alongside the uniquely incredible People Like Us and Gwilly Edmondez. Come be surprised, and, if you like, read this: wp.me/p22xGR-I8
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1Du... a nice video from SHAM, touring from the US, and playing tonight at The Lubber Fiend here in Newcastle with Yakka Doon and Core of the Coalman (me) opening. Door 7:00. Come down if you are around here! (also more info here if you like: wp.me/p22xGR-I1)
cool show in Newcastle Monday night Sept 9 at Lubber Fiend, and I am performing solo (Core of the Coalman) in it. Here is all the info: multiplesystemsofevents.wordpress.com/2024/09/06/m...