Scotland Visit -

Quality quality gig tonight - Bonny Prince Billy. Pictures to come, along with drawings of RM Hubbert's wonderful album launch gig at Stereo on Friday supported by the right rivetingly off the wall 'Tattie Toes', plus some drawings of an alternatively and equally fascinating scientific music, poetry and art night at Inspace with Unravel (Aidan Moffat, Found as well as Chris Meade) last Thursday evening in Edinburgh.

Bonnie Prince Billy plays The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections, and courtesy of the lovely Nuala Kennedy who got him over here. 

Bonnie Prince Billy plays The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow as part of Celtic Connections, and courtesy of the lovely Nuala Kennedy who got him over here. 

Had a lovely rehearsal on Friday with Jer Reid and Monnica Deioanni for our trio piece at Sound Thought, The Arches. Tomorrow having a meeting about the fourth International Women's Day event I'm involved in, plus meeting with the rather fantabulous digital/animatory whizzkid Dave Sapien too for some projected digital drawing chat. All looking real good, enough to get rather excited about.

Aidan Moffat reads as part of the Unravel Installation created by him and the Found art collective with Simon Kirby

Words by Aidan Moffat, members of the art collective Found with Simon Kirby, members of the Electric Bookshop and Chris Meade of ifbook and bookfutures. Very exciting programme/residency with talks on each Thursday up until mid February. Well worth getting a ticket if you can. Inspace is a very exciting multimedia gallery based within Edinburgh university, and they've housed Found's wonderful Bafta award winning Cybraphon project there too.  You can see Cybraphon if you manage the Unravel expo before it finishes.

It's been a busy five days my friends, where I also managed to get my self - assessment/tax shenanigans dealt with, plus got a lovely 24 hours back with my Nana, my Folks, MacDuff the dog and Conan the cat. A good few pictures to upload so look again very very soon. Soon as I get back to my lovely Stockholm tomorrow night and crank up the Scanner. xx

Just before Christmas, Wintercycle, Jer Reid, Music and Art

Wintercycle Duo with Jer Reid - Picture 1 - Wacom/Computer Drawing - 10-15 mins

Wintercycle Duo with Jer Reid - Picture 2 - Paper/Watercolour Drawing - 10-15 mins

The above drawings were done with - and to - Jer Reid's beautiful and inspiring simultaneously created 'soundtrack' on Thursday 16th December as part of his Wintercycle collaborations. A cathartic experience, really quite stupendously wonderful feeling afterwards. My own voice unexpectedly became part of the performance as I spoke throughout on my thoughts of Christmas, family, love while latterly discussing the tenuous process of 'drawing the experience' when drawing from the imagery in my head inspired by Jer's music, recall, distractions, loss and gain via head to hand translation as well as unexpected influences. A gentle but powerful process in an intimate and encouraging space. Some very lovely feedback too. Which is nice :)

Wintercycle is a truly wonderful project, bursting with promise, potential and excitement before each 31 highly unique one-off performances. It's only £1 and every session is recorded sonically, and through Jer's own poetic reflections on his site http://wintercycle.wordpress.com/. An absolute gem to be discovered every day. If you could make one, it would be wholly worthwhile and even enlightening. Every day from 5th December until Tuesday 4th January 2011.

Something completely unrelated but just came across this chap Colter Jacobsen's memory work and found it amazing. http://www.sklatch.net/thoughtlets/memory.html

Also, too late now for Christmas, but my friend put me in touch with this blog and it's got some fantastic stuff on it, with great little background's/reviews too. I'm all up for crafts at Christmas. Next time. :) http://wannekes.blogspot.com/