Picture This

 ‘It must have been when I was a boy at school that the phonograph was invented. At any rate it was at that time a chief object of public wonder….The phenomenon, on every repetition of it, remained astonishing, indeed positively staggering. We were confronting, as it were, a new and infinitely delicate point in the texture of reality, from which something far greater than ourselves, yet indescribably immature, seemed to be appealing to us as if seeking help.’
Rainer Maria Rilke from Primal Sound

‘Picture This’ is perhaps a drawing in sound.
A  7inch 45rpm vinyl record to be played on a Dansette record player.

This forms part of an ongoing series of performances/text pieces in response to experimental recording techniques in early electronic music.

A side ‘Picture This’/ B side ’This Picture’ 
A response to Derbyshire’s method ‘I turned it backwards first. Listen’

Words by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, John Ruskin, Doris Lessing, Anna Zemankova, David Bowie and Cy Twombly.