Malcolm Brown is a professional photographer working at University of Edinburgh for the Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service for over twenty years. He currently works part time for UoE Digital Library providing archival medium format photography for Research Collections and part time on his own visual and documentation projects.He exhibited his visual work after graduating from Glasgow School of Art at Talbot Rice gallery and Collective Gallery Edinburgh, Glasgow Print Studio and as part of Lapland projects.
He was a founding member of experimental audio performance and cassette label Trench Musik Kore in the early 80s. He was included on both Close to the Noise Floor Formative UK Electronica 1975-1984 (published by Cherry Red Records) and Prophecy + Progress: UK Electronics 1978-1990 (Peripheral Minimal) along side luminaries Human League, John Foxx, Throbbing Gristle,Clock DVA, Chris and Cosey, Thomas Leer, Five Times of Dust etc.
REFERENCE MATERIAL
A STORY OF MALEVOLENT MISEDUCATION
The Rudimentary History Of Uneasy Listening.
QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB : CHAUNCEY HARE’S PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK - Brian Arnold.
“Nothing seems different to me in the art world, though perhaps the hierarchies are more rigid, as people jockey for position and attempt to claw their way to the top, rarely reaching down to help others attempting to do the same. Addressing the evolution of the art world into the 21st century, photographer Robert Adams identified an ailment he coined “economic censorship” as a growing trend in which the value of creative work is determined by its retail potential.”
WHAT DO PHOTOGRAPHS DO
The making and remaking of museum cultures
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.
CARGO COLLECTIVE SITES & BOOKS
“anti-monoculture, anti-corporate gesture. A shorthand message of support and general call-out for all that is poly and multi (whether in method or substance) — the multifaceted, the multicultural, the polymorphous, the versatile, the collaborative, the multi-situational, the poetic. As well, it is a mild but sincere refutation against all that is mono and self-centred — the monopolies, the mono-perspectives, the single-channels, the walled gardens, the unimaginative, the cynically refined, the ferociously quixotic.”
BRIAN ARNOLD
“I got into the arts, at least in part, in an attempt to avoid institutional control of my life.”
OUT OF SEQUENCE
Deep respect to Gordon Hope for allowing me to use the title of his Those Little Aliens track “Out of Sequence” for this project.
“Recorded in my bedroom on Cat synth and Wasp as far as I can remember.”
Gordon established Flowmotion fanzine which was fuel for the independent cassette scene. Flowmotion is also the title of a CAN LP and track.
WHEN DECADES COLLIDE
Unfinished business.M.Brown.
The Rudimentary History Of Uneasy Listening.
“ OUTSIDERS, LOCKED INSIDE.
NON-MUSICIANS MAKING MUSIC. “
NON-MUSICIANS MAKING MUSIC. “
QUITTING YOUR DAY JOB : CHAUNCEY HARE’S PHOTOGRAPHIC WORK - Brian Arnold.
“Nothing seems different to me in the art world, though perhaps the hierarchies are more rigid, as people jockey for position and attempt to claw their way to the top, rarely reaching down to help others attempting to do the same. Addressing the evolution of the art world into the 21st century, photographer Robert Adams identified an ailment he coined “economic censorship” as a growing trend in which the value of creative work is determined by its retail potential.”
WHAT DO PHOTOGRAPHS DO
The making and remaking of museum cultures
Edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious.
CARGO COLLECTIVE SITES & BOOKS
“anti-monoculture, anti-corporate gesture. A shorthand message of support and general call-out for all that is poly and multi (whether in method or substance) — the multifaceted, the multicultural, the polymorphous, the versatile, the collaborative, the multi-situational, the poetic. As well, it is a mild but sincere refutation against all that is mono and self-centred — the monopolies, the mono-perspectives, the single-channels, the walled gardens, the unimaginative, the cynically refined, the ferociously quixotic.”
BRIAN ARNOLD
“I got into the arts, at least in part, in an attempt to avoid institutional control of my life.”
OUT OF SEQUENCE
Deep respect to Gordon Hope for allowing me to use the title of his Those Little Aliens track “Out of Sequence” for this project.
“Recorded in my bedroom on Cat synth and Wasp as far as I can remember.”
Gordon established Flowmotion fanzine which was fuel for the independent cassette scene. Flowmotion is also the title of a CAN LP and track.
WHEN DECADES COLLIDE
Unfinished business.M.Brown.