Dada de Dada

Poor Johnny of Seann Cathair 🔊✍

dada · July 14, 2022October 15, 2024

Poetic licence? No. Hyperbole? No. In modern vernacular what follows is a trigger warning. This is not a verse for the faint hearted or for advocates of a return to some mythological idealised past which ‘never did them any harm’. It conveys the imagery of the state-sanctioned normality of what was an everyday occurence. The …

Article Key

dada · July 12, 2022October 27, 2024

♬ = music 🎬 = video 🔊 = spoken word ✍ = verse 💬 = comment

The Virtual Choir Projects 💬

dada · July 12, 2022October 15, 2024

In the recent In Their Minds article I highlighted a piece of virtual collaborative creation involving contributors from US, France and the UK who had never met each other and are, probably, unlikely ever to do so. What is highlighted below is on an altogether grander scale but uses a similar methodology to the WikiLoops …

Restless Nights ♬

dada · July 10, 2022October 15, 2024

Our avant-garde production Restless Nights is now available on SoundCloud (see embed above). It employs a shifting key to introduce deliberate instability and unpredictability. The shifting minor (Em7), major (E7) and diminished keys (Edim7) interspersed with fragments of blues scale were intended to convey a hot, sticky, troubled night of fragmented sleep and disturbing dreams. …

In Their Minds ♬✍

dada · July 6, 2022October 21, 2024

This first version of In Their Minds was the product of a virtual ‘collaboration’ over on the WikiLoops site. There is also an extended later version (see About section below). The ‘collaboration’ has single quote marks because none of us ever actually met or communicated. The WikiLoops model is based on someone initiating a template …

Anthropocene ♬

dada · July 3, 2022October 15, 2024

Dada de Dada · Anthropocene Our short experimental piece, ‘Anthropocene’ is now available on SoundCloud or via the embed in this post. It is best listened to with good headphones or speakers. It starts with some birdsong whose message, using considerable creative licence, is interpreted as: Are you aware of us? Enjoy our song? It …

The Merchants of Menace ✍

dada · July 1, 2022October 15, 2024

The Merchants of Menace Gifted Man ‘Just in Time’ Now unfolds this story Told here in rhyme. Man built their systems They worked like a clock On fast-shifting sands Not old fashioned rock. Then came the day The Earth did it shake Foundations now fragments Man’s houses did break. The Merchants of Menace Loud laughed …

Christmas is Cancelled ✍

dada · July 1, 2022October 15, 2024

Not the 2021 film of the same name. This verse was written by me in December 2020 as the terrible physical, social, and economic reality of the Covid-19 pandemic was becoming apparent and the vaccine programme was yet to cast its magic spell. It was intended as a performance poetry piece but the times made …

Big Brother

dada · July 1, 2022October 15, 2024

Big Brother is a poem about how although we protest about the intrusion of technological supervision by local and national authorities we are doing a pretty good job ourselves.

Charles Hazlewood & Paraorchestra 💬

dada · June 30, 2022July 13, 2022

The Sky Arts television channel now appears to have captured the broadcast arts landscape. An arena the BBC would once have considered its own. The recent Sky Arts TV series Re-inventing the Orchestra with Charles Hazlewood was one of the most inspiring documentaries I have viewed in a long time. Charles Hazlewood is as far …