John norton's Blog (34)

snapshots of research

Over the last month, thanks to NTW, I've been continuing to develop thoughts for a piece of work that interrogates our borders. Yesterday I was invited by Dave Evans to join a bus full of refugees and asylum seekers on a day trip to St Fagans. They were invited to collaborate in constructing a temporary asylum seeker's residence for refugee week next June. I cannot fully describe the effect of engaging with the carefully curated National and…

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Added by john norton on December 16, 2011 at 4:00 — 1 Comment

here's a short film some of us made..,. i guess it's my fault

Added by john norton on July 12, 2011 at 11:24 — No Comments

Funding Ideas - Big Tree, Small Ask

Alright - it ain't no new thing - but here's 2 ways you can get some nice stuff and support our latest production:



You can buy Somatik's fantastic soundtrack for Heart of Darkness here



http://giantmusic.bandcamp.com/



8 tracks in full bandwidth and some great photos - all on pay what you like setting! This is a composer who collaborated on most of 4hero's back catalogue, and who has played Montreux Jazz Festival. This… Continue

Added by john norton on November 11, 2010 at 2:00 — No Comments

continuing thoughts and research for border crossings

lots has gone on since i last posted on this topic, but i'm keeping most of it under my hat until next week


meanwhile it is refugee week so i have taken a british citizenship test - and failed - there's a little more about the experience on my blog


http://netmigrations.blogspot.com/


john

Added by john norton on June 16, 2010 at 12:16 — 6 Comments

border crossings

i've been given a seed commission by NTW to research a new piece of work

and i've started a blog to record the process

please feel free to visit and react

john

http://netmigrations.blogspot.com/

Added by john norton on May 20, 2010 at 6:52 — No Comments

heart of darkness - more reviews

Here's 2 more reviews, again with differing slants and opinions

http://phoenixlily.tumblr.com/


http://www.buzzmag.co.uk/?p=2356

Added by john norton on February 25, 2010 at 10:11 — No Comments

heart of darkness pictures

a couple of pics by mission photographic. thanks to all who came/ are coming still and apologies to all those who couldn't get tickets - we hope to revive it so keep your ears open

Added by john norton on February 18, 2010 at 14:30 — 2 Comments

hurry up, approach with caution

Heart of Darkness is now running full steam, some shows are now sold out so book via Chapter to avoid disappointment. I won't give away any trade secrets, but here's another audio treat for you



Balaphony by djnort "… Continue

Added by john norton on February 14, 2010 at 5:00 — No Comments

music for tea drinkers

we open on wednesday



some nights in week 2 are nearly sold out



here's a snippet of the superb and barbarous soundtrak by somatik



Descent by djnort



we may never… Continue

Added by john norton on February 6, 2010 at 3:00 — No Comments

a nice cup of tea - now with music

Descent by djnort…





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Added by john norton on January 30, 2010 at 23:30 — No Comments

new entirely video website now live

this is our exploration of new web possibilities



www.giveitaname.net



the content of the history and future videos is down to you

rehearsals are in full swing in various locations

performances will be in 10 feet tall

Added by john norton on January 21, 2010 at 10:30 — No Comments

Heart of Darkness

heart of darkness from john norton on…

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Added by john norton on December 14, 2009 at 21:30 — 2 Comments

News + 1

A couple of new versions of Cameron's speech to the Constant Pastime Confrontation in Manchester using different types of random noun generation. hope you enjoy this as much as i did!



A brief explanation of how this works - take a text, plug it into a random noun generator - all the nouns are then replaced by the one 7 nouns further on in the dictionary, or 1 further on , or 15 ... etc.



so the first text is an edit from noun +1,noun+7 and noun+9. the second text is noun+15… Continue

Added by john norton on October 8, 2009 at 10:30 — 2 Comments

heart of darkness

GIVE IT A NAME







IVORY RUBBER DIAMONDS GOLD OIL URANIUM COLTAN









PHILANTHROPY IS GOOD, BUT PHILANTHROPY AT 5% IS BETTER









THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF SAVAGE CUSTOMS









THE FASCINATION OF THE… Continue

Added by john norton on September 7, 2009 at 9:00 — 2 Comments

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