The Ruins Launch with The Howling for London Design Week

There is going to be a very special launch event on Saturday September 20 as part of this year’s London Design Festival. Illustrator Matthew Frame and I have been collaborating on The Ruins, an elegant stand-alone publication that combines his sharply inked panoramic images with some of my sharply inked panoramic writing. Matt’s subject is 1950s dystopian sci-fi movies, drawing upon scenes from the likes of The Time Machine and This Island Earth. My text, written at his request in response to Matt’s illustrations, is a section-by-section reworking of Walter Benjamin’s ‘On the Concept of History’ considered from the perspective of Beyond the Time Barrier, a 1960 B-movie involving a US jet pilot who finds himself in the divided future of...2024. It is the latest in a short series of reworkings I have undertaken of this key Benjamin essay, which was only published after his death by suicide. The book has been beautifully designed and laid out by Patrick Fry and is absolutely gorgeous. It is being published in a limited edition by Jaune Press, so get them while you can. 

 

The Howling will be performing. Matthew Frame will be speaking. There will also be a chance to play videogames and to experience ‘Paradise’, an amazing site-specific installation by the sculptor Max King.  

And there will, of course, be you.

 

Here are the details:

 

Where – Free Play City, 199 Eade Road, Harringay Warehouse District London N4 1DN

 

When – 20 September, 19.00-22.00

Admission – free, no ticket required, but you are requested to RSVP via this link, which contains a lot of useful extra information. 

 

Pictured above: some views of The Ruins by Matthew Frame and Ken Hollings, design by Patrick Fry

The Howling Plays Manchester's Rainy Heart Thursday 24 July

I am very pleased to announce that The Howling are performing in Manchester next Thursday, 24 July. This will not only be the first time The Howling visits Manchester, but it also the first time I have been in front of an audience there in over 15 years. I’m sure very little has changed. Many thanks to Graham Massey for inviting us to take part in such a fabulous spoken-word evening. Robin and I both looking forward to having a more meaningful contact with some of our favourite tongues.

 

Hosting us is the Rainy Heart Film Club – tickets and details are available here.

 

And here’s the press release for the longer version: Thursday 24th July

 - House of Tongues - An Evening of Spoken Word, Sound and Images guest curated by 808 States Graham Massey. Biting Tongues - the pioneering Manchester post-punk band who released music on New Hormones and Factory records was made up of members with expansive creative practices, who originally formed to record the soundtrack to a film. Graham Massey brings together various Biting Tongues members for an evening of performances that show the range of those creative practices; from art writing, to carousel slides to experimental sound work:

 

- The Howling - is a collaborative project by Ken Hollings and Robin The Fog. Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster who has been featured on BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4. His numerous books are all published by Strange Attractor/MIT Press with his latest book for them being The Trash Project Volume Three: Paradise. Robin The Fog is a sound designer and radio producer, who also creates recordings, performances and installations entirely from manipulating magnetic tape on a quartet of vintage tape machines. Described in The Wire as ‘the missing link between John Cage and Suicide’, The Howling serves up intense collisions of spoken word and pounding analogue tape effects. Collaboratively they have released 3 albums, with their latest LP, Be Quiet In This Church, due from The Tapeworm in summer 2025.

 

- I Looked Into Their Eyes And I Saw Only Pixels - A new performance work by Howard Walmsley. An filmmaker, artist and anthropologist living in Manchester, where for the last ten years in particular, there has been considerable redevelopment: an explosion of new buildings and reconfigured public space. These construction sites are surrounded by hoardings printed with giant illustrations of the proposed structure, complete with images of digital citizens inhabiting the space. Imagined people presented in yet-to-be places. This performance, made up of 35mm slide Carousel presentation, commentary and live soundscape takes the figures from these hoarding - known as entourage cutouts, which are printed onto acetate and dissected, corrupted, scalpel sliced and layered into the frames of 35mm glass slide mounts. In these slide collages, the figures overlap and collide, become framed in new relationships and chance meetings. Illuminated in a new world, they begin to reflect the chaos of the city.

 

- Meadow - an ongoing text based project by Flo Goodliffe, an artist and writer, previously published by: Worms, Spam, Travesties, Deleuzine. She is a graduate of the Royal College of Art Master’s Writing programme. This performance of Meadow samples sections of material from a longer work of writing-in-progress. The project relates to the imagined interiority of the character Meadow Soprano, of The Sopranos TV show, in fan-fic style. Meadow is reframed in this work as a protagonist. Her perspective is inter-sliced with a speculative account of the experience of actor Jamie-Lynn Sigler, who reckoned in secrecy with diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis during the filming of The Sopranos. Flo’s voice rounds out the cast participant in this heady work of auto-fiction and biography. The work describes experience of chronic illness and performance. Its choral narration projects yearning for community. Meadow probes thinking on narrative ownership, intellectual property and of capacity for perception, sharing and understanding. 

 

- Four Winds - Graham Massey presents an exploration of his bespoke woodwind collection in 4 parts:

WIND 1 - A 1950s Noblet Alto Clarinet with Jupiter 8 Synthesizer - I Chun Ling (traditional arr)

WIND 2 - A modified Selmar Clarinet with Maestro Woodwind System - Sweet Song Of Summer by Bee Gees 

WIND 3 - The Iguarglaphon -A homemade Chalumeau used on many recordings since the 70s - Norfolk Lightning

WIND 4 - The Reed Cornet -A Woodwind /Brass Hybrid - Tripolis from Kicked From The Stars

 

House of Tongues 

18.30 – 23:00

Thursday 24 July

Rainy Heart Film Club

The Bungalow

Kampus 

Aytoun Street

Manchester M1 3DA

Admission £6.50 – cheap

 

Pictured above

KH at the Horse Hospital by Rachel Hollings, Graham Massey IG post with details, Robin the Fog and The Howling in full effect at Café OTO by Beth Arzy 

 

 

The Howling does Bad Punk Friday 25 April

 

Hello fight fans! Absolutely thrilled to announce that the wonderful Johny Brown has invited The Howling, AKA Howlround and me, to appear on his late-night Resonance 104.4 show ‘Bad Punk’ this Friday 25 April. 

In fact, thanks for Johny’s kindness, for 90 minutes The Howling will be the ENTIRE show. 

I haven’t done any live radio in many years, not since my 'Hollingsville' series for Resonance back in the day, so am looking forward to it with that old familiar mix of exhilaration and sheer terror. 

The Howling will be presenting a version of a track from our upcoming album from The Tapeworm, ‘Be Quiet In This Church’ and will also be performing a one-off live collaboration with members of The Band of Holy Joy. There may be other surprise guests – it’s live and spontaneous, so anything can happen – but anyone who’s seen The Howling perform will know that. I didn’t really have suitable pictures to go with this post, so here are a few extra shots of me and Howlround performing at the launch event for my Strange Attractor Press book Paradise at The Horse Hospital a few months back. We will be playing a recording of this reading/performance as part of the show.

'Bad Punk' starts at 22.00 on Resonance 104.4 FM on Friday 25 April and finishes at 23.30 – so turn on, tune in and pass out. We’ll probably be right behind you. 

You can find Resonance 104.4 FM by clicking here

Pictured above:

KH and Howlround at The Horse Hospital - photos by @lahollings 

'Paradise' Launch at The Horse Hospital, Friday 6 December

 

On Friday 6 December, I'd be delighted if you could please join me and Strange Attractor Press in celebrating the completion of my monumental Trash Project with the publication launch for Paradise: The Psychoanalysis of Trash at The Horse Hospital. The event will also celebrate twenty years since Strange Attractor’s first book event at this most blessed and favoured venue.

I will be reading from Paradise, alongside a performance from Howlround’s Robin The Fog on reel-to-reel tape recorders. You will of course know us better as The Howling.

Copies of all three volumes – Inferno, Purgatory and Paradise – will be on sale, along with their companion volume The Trash Concordance; and I will be signing copies of all four titles while stocks last.

‘Virtuosic in its scope…never less that compelling in its sheer erudition’ 

Chris Hill, Fortean Times

‘Energetic and enthusiastic, Hollings’ conception of trash is poetic, exaggerated and true to the conceptual and ultimately confrontational nature of the underground.’

Laura Jacobs, Art Monthly

In the third and final volume of his personal reflections on Trash Aesthetics, Ken Hollings tells the story of three kings who squandered everything they had in a grandiose spectacle of waste. King Ludwig II of Bavaria, ‘King of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Elvis Presley and Michael Jackson, the ‘King of Pop,’ all shared the same doomed innocence. Their lives and early deaths were connected through individual displays of unfettered extravagance that brought them to the very edge of ruin. Each of them lived out their personal ideals of beauty and pleasure – even after the money was gone. In his reworking of Dante Alighieri’s Paradiso, Hollings presents Heaven as a place of rebellious but tragic self-indulgence.

 

Here are the details

December 6th
Doors 7pm
The Horse Hospital
Colonnade
London 

Free Entry

Ken Hollings, The Howling and Howloween at Margate Caves

 

I am very excited to announce a very special site-specific show taking place at Margate Caves on Thursday 31 October. Thanks to Seadog Books, I am happy to announce Howloween, an evening of clammy weirdness and strange darkness that none of you should even dream of missing. You can find more details and order tickets by clicking here.

 

As part of Howloween, I will be giving the first public reading ever from Paradise, my latest book for Strange Attractor Press, on a suitably subterranean theme: namely, the fabulous Venus Grotto of King Ludwig II. Seadog Books will be selling copies of Paradise at the Caves, along with complete sets of The Trash Project for all you completists, and I will also on hand to sign copies. 

 

My reading will be followed by the premiere of ‘Be Quiet In This Church’, the latest live performance by The Howling. This is an ambitious project inspired by a bizarre series of texts posted as comments under a YouTube video, where they were discovered by Robin The Fog. Either produced by a chatbot or in response to a homework assignment, the texts offer a set of grammatical permutations on the same remarkably similar sentences. Who wrote them or how they ended up as comments posted under an old music infomercial remain a mystery. We decided not to alter or edit the texts in any way but simply arrange them for five speaking voices. The result is a fractured meditation on repetition and variation in which every sentence is transformed into a haunting subterranean experience. The performance will feature the additional voices of Claire Breach, Xanthe Horner, Hamzah Aldimi and Martyna Wielgopolan, to whom The Howling would like publicly to express their gratitude.

 

Some of the BQITC crew visited Margate Caves during the summer to experiment with voices and acoustics to see what would work in this cavernous space. Xanthe also brought her gong, which will be featured in the 31 October performance. You can see from the pictures above that we will be performing in a fabulous set of vaulted spaces that was once an old chalk mine. Due to the size and capacity of Margate Caves, there is a strictly limited audience capacity, and we are already down to the last twenty tickets. If you’re in the Margate area or in the mood for a Halloween excursion, this may be exactly what you are looking for.

 

Pictured above:

Two views of the Margate Caves interior

Xanthe, Claire and Robin reacting to some of the Cave Paintings

More Cave Paintings

Xanthe + gong

Robin + cassette recorder

Paradise + back cover

The Howling Release Digital EP via The Tapeworm, Complete With Video

 

Just when you thought it was safe to back into the Spook House for the Late-Night Monster Show, The Howling return with our latest two-track EP. This digital release offers radical new takes on two tracks taken from our recent Wormhole album Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway. 

 

Track A is a video version of ‘The Skydivers’, The Howling’s deadpan exposition on a spectacularly lacklustre movie melodrama, backed by the throbbing of a customised street rod engine. Combining the original studio version of the track with visuals specially prepared for a recent live performance, ‘The Skydivers’ offers all the highs and lows of this moody soap opera in which people either fall in love or throw themselves out of planes. The Howling would like to acknowledge with grateful thanks the expert role played by our Executive Producer Lori E Allen in the final stages of preparing this video for release.

 

 Track B is a pounding live version of another track taken from The Howling’s Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway release. ‘The Picture of A Picture of Dorian Gray’ pays tribute to a 1970s Italian soft-core porn adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel. Using keywords scraped from the IMDB entry for the movie, The Howling reconstructs Wilde’s narrative as a fragmented sequence of plot points, themes and images. This recording was made in the teeth of severe technical problems at the Horse Hospital in London on 3 November 2023 and turned out to be greatly enhanced by them. This live version also includes a spoken-word introduction written by me for live performances of the piece but not featured on the album version.

‘The Skydivers’ video c/w ‘A Picture of the Picture of Dorian Gray’, live at the Horse Hospital is out now from The Tapeworm and can be found here. 

 

Described in The Wire as ‘the missing link between John Cage and Suicide’, The Howling is a collaborative project I started with sound artist Howlround devoted exclusively to their shared love of text, audiotape and trash.

 

We have presented work at Iklectic and the British Film Institute; and our track ‘David Gest, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’ was prominently featured in the Loewe SS24 catwalk show during Paris Fashion Week. We’re still not sure why.

 

The Howling – ‘The First Name in Excitement!’

 

The Howling Hits Paris Fashion Week in September – Spooks the Horse Hospital in November

 

Friday 29 September 2023 was the official release date for The Howling’s latest album Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway – brought to you on CD by Tapeworm subsidiary Wormhole. 

 

On the same day the fabulous house of Loewe unveiled their SS24 women’s wear collection as part of Paris Fashion Week. For reasons that still elude me, Loewe included in their runway show extracts from The Howling’s ‘David Gest, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’, which had been available since the start of September as a digital single release as a teaser for Incredible Night Creatures. The sight of so many models moving so elegantly to our work is one that will probably haunt me to my grave. If you want to share the experience, either check out the embedded video above or click here  – either way, it’s a moment to behold.

 

The track has long been a firm favourite at Howling performances; but Howlround and I had no idea its fame had extended quite that far. If you want to find out for yourself what Loewe got so excited about, The Howling are performing at The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury on Friday 3 November, when our good friend Travis Elborough is hosting ‘Bonfire of the BASF’, a sonic séance. Also on the bill are the fabulous Ruth Beyer talking to Caroline Wise about her ectoplasmic photography and Kemper Norton, back from the deepest deeps. You can find details and book tickets by clicking here. Howlround and I will be performing material from Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway, including ‘David Gest Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’. So come early, come clean...and do please dress correctly.

 

The Tapeworm and Through the Looking Glasses present…

‘Bonfire of the BASF’ as part of MEMOREX – an evening of misremembering at

The Horse Hospital, London WC1

Friday 3.11.23

Doors 19.00

Tickets £10.00 available from the Horse Hospital website

 

New From The Howling: Incredible Night Creatures of The Midway!

 

Incredible Night Creatures of The Midway is the latest album from The Howling, the collaborative project that Howlround and I started back in 2019, inspired by our deep love of Text, Tape and Trash. Available on CD or as a digital download, Incredible Night Creatures of The Midway is intense collision of spoken word and analogue tape effects splattered across five tracks that provide the missing link between John Cage and Suicide. It’s the all-singing, all dancing follow-up to our debut album All Hail Mega Force, hailed by The Wire as a ‘mesmeric disorientation’ when released by Tapeworm in 2022.

 

Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway celebrates some of The Howling’s favourite exploitation movies. ‘Contents Warning’ pays tribute to the quantities of sex, horror and violence to be found in the genre as a whole, while ‘David Gest, Liza Minelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’ is a Trash favourite from our live performances and is currently available as digital single. Each of the remaining three tracks is devoted to a specific movie dear to our hearts. ‘The Skydivers’ is a deadpan exposition of a spectacularly lacklustre 1960s soap opera set on a California airfield, backed by the throbbing of a customised street rod engine. ‘The Picture of A Picture of Dorian Gray’ is a pounding response to a 1970s Italian soft-core porn adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s classic novel. Finally, Howlround and I are joined by Beth Arzy of Jetstream Pony and composer/performer Ela Orleans for ‘Miss Frost Miss Leslie Miss Frost’, an exacting dismemberment of Miss Leslie’s Dolls, a creepy Florida-based slasher flick rumoured to have been produced with money smuggled out of Castro’s Cuba. We dare you to play it in the dark!

 

You can pre-order Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway direct from Tapeworm by clicking here. Copies will be shipped on September 29. Order it from Tapeworm, and you also get The Howling Wormzine as a downloadable PDF containing full versions of all the texts from the album. 

 

‘David Gest, Lisa Minnelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’ is available right now as a digital single – find it simply by clicking here.

 

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE!

 

The Howling will be doing a special performance based on material from the album at Iklectik Lab on September 19 as part of Vox Interruptus. For more details of the event and to book tickets, click here. Copies of Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway will be available for purchase on the night.

 

The Howling – ‘The First Name in Excitement!’

 

Pictured above: Mind-bending artwork for the album, the digital single and The Howling Wormzine by the amazing Stefan Fahler.

Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway front cover

‘David Gest, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth’ digital single 

Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway back cover 

The Howling in ‘The Clown House’ @ the Horse Hospital

On Thursday 9 February at London’s most prestigious arts venue, The Horse Hospital in Bloomsbury, The Howling are pleased to present their first new work of 2023. 

 

The Clown House is our latest performance for spoken word and reel-to-reel tape – and Howlround and I are delighted to be sharing the evening with the fabulous Tears | O V. Together we are presenting a bill of clown-based horror and absurdity to celebrate the Horse Hospital’s latest exhibition ‘Drole’, a selection of mind-blowing archive material and curios torn from the history of clowning.

 

I have always, like any sane person, looked upon clowns with a mixture of fear and loathing. They always think they’re so goddamn funny, for a start. However, working with material or themes with which you have no natural connection can often be extremely productive. 

 

Hence, The Clown House, our latest performance, which reveals all you need to know about The Clown Inside – a neurodivergent condition with which I have been feeling a growing sympathy.

 

The Clown Inside is always crying. The Clown Inside isn’t there for your amusement. The Clown Inside keeps you in your place. The Clown inside wants to be your friend.

The Clown inside is always angry. 

 

The Clown Inside knows how to bear a grudge. The Clown Inside knows what you did. The Clown Inside remembers everything.

 

Combining media samples, field recordings, spoken word and analogue tape effects, Howlround and I take you inside the Clown House, letting you to hear everything that’s going on in there – everything the Clown Inside hears and sees.

 

The Howling is a collaborative project started I started with sound artist Howlround devoted exclusively to our shared love of text, audiotape and trash aesthetics. Our debut album All Hail Mega Force, released by Tapeworm in the summer of 2022, was described by The Wire as a ‘mesmeric disorientation.’ And who are we to argue?

 

The Howling + 

Tears | O V

Thursday 9 February

7.00 pm to 11.00pm

The Horse Hospital

Colonnade

Bloomsbury

London WC1N 1JD

For tickets and more details click here.

 

Pictured above

KH and Howlround at the BFI, photographed by @lahollings

HH at the HH

Grilled Cheese 30 seconds

HH at the HH

Clown Graphics by Tears | O V

 

 

 

Incredible Night Creatures of the Midway!

 

There’s no calm or easy way to say this: on Wednesday July 20 The Howling will be performing at the BFI, presenting a special set to introduce a 4K restoration of Ray Dennis Steckler’s 1963 trash classic The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-up Zombies?! Get your tickets now! 

 

Howlround and I are back again, working with spoken word and analogue tape technology to pay tribute to a film that has had a deep influence on our embracing of Trash and Trash Aesthetics. Steckler was a key character in Inferno, the first volume in my three-part Trash Project, and is also listed among the damned and the fabulous in The Howling’s ‘David Gest, Liza Minelli, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor’, a piece we like to revisit and reinvent in our sets. Get your tickets now!

 

The performance and screening will take place in NFT3 at the BFI on Wednesday July 20. 

The the whole thing starts at 18.15. 

You can find out more and book a seat by clicking here.

 

Get your tickets now!

 

Pictured above:  Ray Dennis Steckler (AKA Cash Flagg) in a scene from The Incredibly Strange Creatures; a detail from the movie’s original poster art; Howlround and KH rehearsing in NFT3, photographed by roving shutterbug @lahollings 

 

 

 

Debut Release from The Howling - 'All Hail Mega Force'

Imagine your worst fear a reality. All Hail Mega Force is the first full-length release from The Howling: a collaborative project I started with sound artist Robin the Fog, aka Howlround. Our work is inspired exclusively by our shared love of text, audiotape and trash aesthetics. Ken Hollings + Howlround = The Howling. Our first performance took place at the Iklectik in September 2019 as part of a special programme to celebrate Tapeworm’s 10^th anniversary.

 

During the pandemic we managed to continue working and conferring since then, sharing sound files, texts and mixes online, and one of the main results has been this release for Tapeworm. The two extended tracks contained on this audiocassette reflect our shared interest in Fluxus and how informal rules and permutations can be set up to work themselves out through loops and repetitions. The idea of instant, disposable one-off creations appealed to us a lot at the time, particularly as both pieces were conceived and developed during different phases of Covid lockdown in the UK. A straight line connects Terry Riley’s tape experiments in Paris from the early 60s with our experimental recordings in the Wimpy Bar on Streatham High Road, one of our favourite meeting places. 

 

The title and source material for these two pieces are derived from the 1980s kid’s adventure movie MegaForce, starring Barry Bostwik and Michael Beck. Designed to sell a range of Mattel hi-tech action toys, MegaForce tanked at the box office but lives on in the collective consciousness of those who share with The Howling a special love for Trash and Trash Aesthetics. 

 

‘All Hail Mega Force’ was created by reading combinations of the words 'All Hail Mega Force' into a voice memo recorder, transferring it to tape, cutting the whole thing as a single long loop and then stretching it across three reel-to-reel machines simultaneously, using two pencils and a pint glass full of loose change to try and maintain sufficient playback tension. Over time the loop started to degrade, which accounts for the increasingly slurry and unpredictable playback, plus frequent ruptures caused by the tape becoming jammed and having to be tugged through the machine workings by hand. Twenty-four minutes later and the result was a completed new work and a slight backache.

 

 

The text for ‘Are You Man Enough For Mega Force?’ was recorded live in the Wimpy Bar on Streatham High Road, 28 November 2021. It was cut to tape and looped on 3 December 2021 at Warrior Studios, Loughborough Junction. Dragged by motor and then by hand across two tape machines with copious amounts of closed input feedback provided by a third rushing in to fill the gaps. One take with no effects or overdubs, but one tiny edit in the middle when something fell over. 

 

 

Cover art is by the fabulous Deborah Wale of Tears/Ov, design and layout is by the amazing Philip Marshall, who was also responsible for The Howling’s Burger Bun Logo. Mega Mastering was by Steven McInerney. We are indebted to all three of them. Further details on this fine Tapeworm release can be found here.

‘The result,’ according to the  music blog Further, ‘is like an updated take on Alvin Lucier’s “I Am Sitting In A Room”, except that Hollings wasn’t at home but at the Wimpy Bar on Streatham High Street. After listening to approximately 360 brilliantly evolving iterations of the b-side’s single enquiry – “Are you man enough for Mega Force?” – pushed through Howlround’s macho manipulations, I can confirm, regrettably, that I’m probably not.’

 

Robin and I have continued working together since the completion of All Hail mega Force. There is a new album of text/tape/trash compositions, plus a couple of very exciting performances coming up later in the year, including any absolute barnburner at the BFI over the summer. With The Howling, you can be sure that your worst fear is a reality.

 

Pictured above:

 

All Hail Mega Force cover by Deborah Wale and Philip Marhshall

Pack Shots by @lahollings

The Howling recording in Streatham High Road Wimpy Bar by Beth Arzy

The Howling play Iklectik Studios February 5 2022 - Be There

I am very pleased to announce that I will be joining the amazing Robin the Fog, AKA Howlround as part of ‘A Picture of the Picture of Dorian Gray’: an evening of events at Iklectik Studios taking place on Saturday February 5. Also on the bill are Tears Ov, Laura Angusdei and Alpha Duffau, so the whole thing will certainly be well worth your attention and support. 

 

This is only the second time that Howlround and I have appeared together as the Howling. I’m going to let the press release take over at this point:

 

The Howling is a collaborative project started by writer Ken Hollings and sound artist Howlround devoted exclusively to their shared love of text, audiotape and trash aesthetics. An intense collision of spoken word and tape effects, the Howling’s first performance took place at the Iklectik in September 2019. Since then, the duo has been working together online developing new material and techniques. This is only their second performance, so don’t expect too much from them.

 

Ken Hollings is a writer and broadcaster. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, and he has written and presented critically acclaimed features for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and Resonance 104.4 FM. His books include Welcome to Mars, The Bright Labyrinth, The Space Oracle and Inferno all available from Strange Attractor/MIT Press. His latest book, Purgatory, is due from them in Spring 2022.

 

Howlround, AKA, Robin the Fog, is a sound designer, radio producer, audio archivist, educator and occasional DJ. His work falls under the broad term of 'radiophonic' and includes composition, sound installation, field recording and documentary. original described as a 'second wave hauntologist', his current obsession is attempting to use closed-input feedback loops to create primitive techno, which is quite a long way from where he started.   

Tickets for the event are £10.00 in advance or £12.00 on the door. You can find all of the details 

here.

 

 

Pictured above: Howlround in the studio, The Howling live at the Iklectik, September 2019, Howling logo by Philip Marshall