The Return of the Somnambulist Internationale

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In the wide-awake hours after the nightclubs closed we would gather to show our super-8 films and recite redacted newspaper tracts. With an almost religious fervour, Somnambulist Internationale documented a body of work, our very own psychogeographic time capsule. We sat in the dark & watched a flickering projector. Then it was the turn of what we had created to sit in the dark for the next 30 years.

transmissions

In 2022 a new work was begun. Radio On ~ an 8 part series of 15 min sound- collages. Dialogue is taken from Goat Island (an extensive DIY collage book) alongside favoured music, film & TV clips and archive material. Radio On was broadcast on Resonance FM (London) as part of their autumn schedule. It also had an extended run on Tesla FM (Barcelona) from Sept 2022 - July 2023. Each episode is now archived on Mixcloud.

In 2023 Radio Too - The Actors Version (Reimagined, Remixed & Repackaged) was also made available as a 4-part podcast stripped of music & samples but retaining its foley soundscapes, on Anchor FM & Spotify.

films

In 2021, the 30th anniversary of The Somanmbulist Internationale, a dedicated You-Tube channel began to publish the S.I. film archive with a contemporaneous soundtrack. There have been live screening events including Chorlton Arts Festival, Freight Island, Kino Film Festival & NIAMOS and commissions to make videos for jazz trumpeter Kevin G Davy, Fat City's Mystic Brew, and the late Mark Stewart RIP.