Luke Fowler is a Glaswegian artist-filmmaker who has made a clutch of super interesting films which investigate counterculture or slightly maverick figures both in the arts and in (and outside) society in general: from radical composer Cornelius Cardew to Bogman Palmjaguar, a resident of Sutherland, “essentially maladjusted to people” and so withdrawn, through distrust, into nature. Here’s a nice quote about him (Luke, not Mr. Palmjaguar,) from the eminent film scholar Michael Zyrd, “(Luke’s films present)… a complex and highly varied surface of image and sound that points implicitly to a deeper and ordered structure underneath”.
Lee Patterson is Mancunian musician and sound artist, who is really quite obsessed with the minute sounds in nature, and with sound itself as it travels through mediums other that air: through water, through metal fencing, concrete bridges and such. We once described his work, in it’s transforming of minute vibrations into real, understandable, and crucially, musical works of art as alchemy.
