This talk was originally commissioned, but never delivered as a prologue to the Human Greed performance in Gdansk in the winter of 2008… I was a child of Lorca… El …
Oh No Soho
First, sit in a cafe in the heart of Soho and enjoy the eggs Florentine and coffee. Second, quietly record the conversations emerging from the other tables. Third, remove the …
Fragile Pitches Article
Thank you to Neil Cooper for forwarding the full text for his Glasgow Herald article which appeared in the print edition today, but has yet to surface on the Herald …
Cathedral II
Colin Potter (Nurse With Wound, Fovea Hex, Monos) and Michael Begg (Human Greed, Fovea Hex) will perform a new work “Fragile Pitches” in Edinburgh’s St Giles Cathedral on December 30th …
Cathedral I
Michael Begg will play a solo set at the “Saltire” event in St Mary’s Cathedral, Haddington, Scotland, on 29th November 2009. The set will feature elements of Fortress Longing.
Troglobite
The newly released Blind Cave Salamander record “Troglobite” features a guest contribution (electric piano, kaoss pad, glass and groans) from Human Greed’s Michael Begg From Shayo Recordings: Blind Cave Salamander …
Happy Birthday, Leonard Cohen
I have often shamelessly appropriated the technique of dictating a list of potently symbolic objects and stirring them up like a recipe into something more resonant than the component parts …
Michael Begg Interview
Adverse Effect have published Kate MacDonald‘s recent interview with Michael Begg: The Fine Arts of Language and Sound. Read the interview here
We shall overcome, and be cosy
We each have our own way of contributing to the revolution. This is mine! Thanks, once more, to the mysterious partisan force that is Guerilla Knitting My beautiful scarf was …