Oh no not another introduction! I hear you all cry, well yes it is and I have to confess I meant to do this earlier but work overtakes, time flies and I felt wary about trying to condense 20 years of involvement into a few short paragraphs. However I was cajoled into finally getting this posted (you can blame Malcolm Dickson...), so here goes....
My name is Robert H. King and i�m a designer / writer / curator / sound artist..... (although I overhead someone say at a gallery opening �The trouble with designers is they think they�re artists...�). For the past few years I�ve been predominantly based at Street Level Photoworks as their �in-house� designer and web designer in addition to delivering some of their digital imaging workshop programme. I�ve also designed websites for various artists and organisations including Variant Magazine, Glasgow School of Art / Scottish Sculpture Trust. At present I�m working under the name of nomadstation on an audio CD album to be released in the summer. Also in the final stages of production of an enhanced CD that I�ve designed / sound designed for London based label D.O.R. In 1999 I devised and curated �drift�: the sound art and acoustic ecology festival which was New Media Scotland's� first major event. The event was too big to tell you all about here so pop over to www.mediascot.org where the website should still be online as an archive. I also compiled an audio CD that was released to accompany the festival, copies of which should still be �obtainable�. The �Festival Thing� is also part of my background as in �94 I curated several Multimedia / Sound Art events for �New Visions� before moving up to Programme Assistant in �96. Events taking place @ GOMA, CCA, Tramway & GSA. As you�ll have gathered music / sound has been a large part of my career, starting in 1982 with Pleasantly Surprised, Scotland's� first audiozine (a compilation cassette zine with various printed inserts etc.). Releasing material from Cocteau Twins, Primal Scream, Billy MacKenzie, The Birthday Party to name just a few. I moved onto releasing individual works from Test Dept and Dif Juz again to name just a couple. In �85 I launched Cathexis Recordings and released material from Fini Tribe, Sonic Youth, Mark Stewart, Pink Industry, amongst many others... In 1989 I curated the �Apocalypse Culture� exhibition at Transmission which was a sort of preview to the next venture �TOTAL� an audio visual journal of provocative information. This ran to two editions: Volume 1 an A4 magazine, on the theme of control, with CD: works from & about (amongst others) Malcolm Poynter, Robert Anton Wilson, The Ku Klux Klan, Mind Control and Wilhelm Reich. Volume 2: an A5 paperback book on the theme of the Body with cover art by Derek Jarman, texts by and about Jarman, Hakim Bey, Annie Sprinkle, Body Modification, audio from Lull, Techno Animal, Nocturnal Emissions et al. In between all this I have written about music and media for various publications including Variant (in both versions) and The Empty Quarter, had a weekly show on Radio Mercury- Glasgow's first pirate station. Designed packaging for CD�s on several labels and been Editor / Curator for �solar� a journal in sound - for Solielmoon Recordings (USA) featuring field recordings from around the world and a plethora of sonic arts practitioners including Max Eastley, Dallas Simpson, Michael Prime, Freeform, Paul Schutze and TUU. I think that�s about it for now. I�ve been enjoying the posts to ambit and it�s starting to take shape now. Met a few of you at recent events and look forward to meeting again. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
