An interview with Elizabeth Bennett about her new book, Performing Folk Songs: Affect, Landscape, Repertoire. Find Elizabeth on Instagram and find the book via Bloomsbury. The music in this episode is from the new album by Stick in the Wheel, A Thousand Pokes, available from their Bandcamp. Host Justin Hopper has an Uncanny Landscapes substack. The…

Laura Cannell is a musician based in Suffolk, East Anglia, England. Her work combines experimental, folk, early and medieval music, as well as a number of unique and rare techniques. Her website is https://lauracannell.com/ where you can find out about recordings and gigs, or you can visit her Brawl Records bandcamp site to check out music and buy …

An interview by Justin Hopper with Jez riley French. Jez riley French is a sound artist and field recordist, who also makes photographs and builds microphones, from Hull, England. His website is https://jezrileyfrench.co.uk/ where you can find out about activities including the upcoming Murmuration retreat in Scotland (highly recommended), many of …

An interview by Justin Hopper with James Canton. James Canton is a writer and educator; the author of books including Ancient Wonderings, The Oak Papers, and Grounded: A Journey into the Landscapes of our Ancestors. His website is https://jamescanton.co.uk/ He is also active on Instagram. The music in this episode is Leaves Rustle and the Wind in m…

An interview by Justin Hopper with Cheryl E. Leonard. Cheryl E. Leonard is a musician, sound artist and composer who lives in Northern California and works there - or in Antarctice, or Scotland, or Scandinavia... Her practice of making compositions 'of' and 'with' place combines field recordings with music made from original instruments built from …

For this special episode, I walked on the South Downs with Jim Jupp of Belbury Poly and Ghost Box Records, discussing the latest BP album The Path. Good friend of the podcast Jim Jupp recently released a new album under his Belbury Poly name, and through Ghost Box, the record label he co-founded with artist/designer Julian House. Rather than a solo…

An interview by Justin Hopper with artist Kirsty Badenoch and writer Tom Jeffreys. Kirsty and Tom have an exhibition 9-12 November at Staffordshire Street Gallery in Peckham, London, UK, featuring new work made in the remaining patches of boreal forest in northern Scotland. For information on the exhibition, visit Staffordshire St's website. Kirsty…

An interview by Justin Hopper with Frances Castle of Clay Pipe Music. Frances Castle is a London-based artist, illustrator and musician who operates Clay Pipe Music, a record label producing beautiful landscape-inspired LPs and CDs of music combining folk, electronica and hauntological themes. Clay Pipe's website is http://www.claypipemusic.co.uk/ …

An interview by Justin Hopper with Lally MacBeth and Matthew Shaw, founders of Stone Club. Stone Club is an online and in-person affiliation of people in love with ancient landscapes, founded two years ago by artists MacBeth and Shaw. They'll talk about the background on 'why stone club', the importance of mystical landscape and the work influenced…

An interview by Justin Hopper with artist and writer Camilla Nelson. Camilla Nelson is an artist whose work explores the materiality of language, particularly in regards to the other-than-human. Her workshop BECOMING begins soon and is an exploration of ways to engage with fungus, birds, animals, plants and more through language and art. She'll dis…

An interview by Justin Hopper with artist and musician Jem Finer. Jem Finer is an artist and musician whose work spans the musical gamut from co-founding The Pogues to creating Longplayer, a 1,000-year-long composition that has been performing itself, so far, for 23 years. On Mayday, Finer and co-conspirator Jimmy Cauty (of the KLF) release the fir…

An interview by Justin Hopper with artist and roboticist Ian Ingram. Ian Ingram is an artist and roboticist based in California. His practice is concerned with building robots - kinetic sculptures - that attempt to communicate with animals in their own languages. So, for example, you'll hear him discuss a 'lizard' robot that does push-ups the way s…

Uncanny Landscapes #12 -Michael Pawlyn An interview by Justin Hopper with architect, writer and systems thinker Michael Pawlyn. Michael Pawlyn is a pioneer in the field of biomimicry - drawing inspiration from mechanisms found in the nonhuman world to inspire architecture and design - and a leading name in regenerative thinking. Michael was one of …

Uncanny Landscapes #11 - Richard Skelton An interview by Justin Hopper with writer, artist and musician Richard Skelton. Richard Skelton is a writer, artist and musician whose work explores the human relationship to landscape; along with the poet Autumn Richardson, he is co-founder of Corbel Stone Press, a preeminent venue for contemporary and hist…

An interview by Justin Hopper with writer, academic and psychogeographer Sonia Overall. Sonia Overall is a writer, academic and avid psychogeographer based in southeast England. She is the founder of Women Who Walk, a network for creatives and academics, as well as the creator of many walking-based projects including Distance Drift, a lockdown-insp…

Uncanny Landscapes #8 - Gary Budden An interview by Justin Hopper with writer Gary Budden Gary Budden is a Kent-born, London-based, writer of weird fiction and also-weird non-fiction. His latest collection of short stories, London Incognita, explores the realities of a fractured capital through tales of the otherwise. His non-fiction collaborations…

Uncanny Landscapes #8 - Rich Pell, the Center for PostNatural History An interview by Justin Hopper with artist Rich Pell of the Center for PostNatural History. Rich Pell is an artist and art professor based in Pittsburgh who founded and operates the Center for PostNatural History - a permanent museum dedicated to the cultural influence on evolutio…

[NOTE to subscribers: Due to a technical glitch this episode was briefly removed, edited, and is now uploaded a second time - which is why you may have two notifications, etc.] Uncanny Landscapes #7 - Kate Davis An interview by Justin Hopper with poet Kate Davis. Kate Davis is a poet, performer, artist, swimmer, taxidermist and more based in the Fu…

Uncanny Landscapes #6 - Gareth E. Rees An interview by Justin Hopper with writer Gareth E. Rees. Gareth Rees is an author whose books explore modern myths and folklore of place. He has previously published 2013’s Marshland, about Hackney, and 2018’s The Stone Tide, before becoming nationally known for 2019’s Car Park Life. His new book is Unofficia…

Uncanny Landscapes #5 - The Belbury Poly An interview by Justin Hopper with musician and record-label head Jim Jupp. Jim Jupp records music as The Belbury Poly, and releases his own music as well as that of many others via the Ghost Box Records label he operates with designer Julian House. His latest record, The Gone Away, is a concept album based …

Uncanny Landscapes #4 - Stein Farstadvoll An interview by Justin Hopper with archaeologist Stein Farstadvoll. Stein Farstadvoll is an archaeologist of the contemporary world working in arctic Norway and based at the University of Tromso. His work images vestigial and out-of-place objects that contribute to uncanny places: from an abandoned landscap…

An interview by Justin Hopper with photographer Roei Greenberg Roei Greenberg is an London-based Israeli artist whose photographs explore borders and boundaries, whether they are the ‘hot’ political borders of his home on the Israel-Lebanon border, or the subtle, implicit boundaries of the English picturesque. We spoke about his projects English En…

An interview by Justin Hopper with writer and artist JR Carpenter. We spoke about her project This Is a Picture of Wind - a digital exploration of wind and language, now in book form from Longbarrow Press; about weather, climate change and imperialism; about mapping invisible systems, and about Vahni Capildeo's poetic response to Picture of Wind. L…

An interview by Justin Hopper with author and artist Angus Carlyle. We spoke about his books of let’s-call-them-air-quotes-Nature-Writing that both reflect his lifelong love of the genre and some of the conflicts at its heart. About running through the downs at night. About nature writing and indices, and mental health, and hangovers, and about the…

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