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

Autumn 2024 Radio On broadcast on Radio Alhara (Palestine) before our new 10-part radio show Rave On is premiered, featuring our spoken-word sound-collages with both borrowed music & original soundtracks by musician/producer Sonskrif

Spring 2024 Vision On, a hauntological reflection on memory & nostalgia, featuring spoken-word alongside re-appropriated TV programme themes from the 1970s & 80s, presented as eight 10min videos uploaded to our You-Tube channel

Spring 2023 Radio Too - The Actors Version (Reimagined, Remixed & Repackaged), a 4-part Radio On podcast, stripped of music & film samples but retaining its Foley soundscapes, was made available on Spotify

Autumn 2022 Radio On, an 8-part series of 15 min sound-collage, was broadcast on Resonance FM (London). Spoken-word interwoven & layered with favoured music, film & TV samples, with original Foley soundscapes. The show also had an extended run on Tesla FM (Barcelona) until summer 2023. Each episode is now archived on Mixcloud

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.