Shipping Forecast

Anchored in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by Hoagy Houghton and Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Shipping Forecast is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations—a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles.

A utility amongst the swallows is their music; they use it to avoid collision.

– John Cage, 36 Mesostics RE: and not RE: Duchamp (1978)

Anchored in a book that collects a roll-of-film’s worth of co-dependent photographs and prose-poems by Hoagy Houghton and Dominic Jaeckle (36 Exposures, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe), Shipping Forecast is a quilt of first- and second-hand reticulated reflections and ratiocinations—a ‘disembodied voice-over’ for a set of absent images, memories and other assorted totem poles—read and recorded by Diamanda La Berge Dramm and sunk in a veritable garden of noises, drones, field recordings and found sounds by Matthew Shaw.

Dominic Jaeckle is a writer and researcher; founding editor of the magazine project Hotel, and publisher of esoterica and experimental literatures with Tenement Press.

Diamanda La Berge Dramm grew up in Amsterdam, the Netherlands playing the violin since the age of four. Growing up among the leading figures of the Dutch classical, avant-garde and improvisation scene, her own concerts reflect all of these elements. In 2018 she was the first ever string soloist to win the Dutch Classical Talent Tour & Award. Diamanda studied at New England Conservatory and at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague. Recent performances include solo concerts with the Metropole Orchestra, and an Indonesia tour giving workshops and concerts. In 2020, Dramm was in residence at Musikfest Bremen as winner of the Deutschlandfunk Förderungspeis. Dramm is a founding member of Splendor, a collective of 50 artists in Amsterdam who co-run a working space and concert hall.

Matthew Shaw is a Dorset-based composer, musician, poet and artist who has been releasing music since 2000 under his own name and as Tex La Homa.

Shipping Forecast was produced and mixed by Dominic Jaeckle, Matthew Shaw and Simon Tonka, © 2021. Artwork by Hoagy Houghton, © 2016.