New A7 booklets! Following on from the 2023/24 Setlist zine series, Raw Materials is my next project for Ink-Paper-Sound. At London Centre for Book Arts this year I’ve been learning how to use the risograph machine to print my own publications, experimenting with one, two and three-colour print. For Raw Materials I wanted to create something new out of discarded, unfinished things that I found at home and in my studio, and ended up bringing together words from the back of scrap paper, elements from backburner graphic scores that I didn’t finish or use for anything, and offcuts from linocut printmaking that I then scanned to make digital artwork. As with the Setlist zines, when making these I was imagining them as starting points for improvisation, hoping that they could be some kind of raw kernels for other future live work as well as standing alone.

Raw Materials 1 and 2 are on sale now from the Ink-Paper-Sound webshop; read on for info on each one.

Raw Materials 1: Deep-Sea Hunting
Fragments of text extracted from the scrap paper pile, lino-print offcuts dragged into the digital realm, and elements from an unfinished graphic score are mashed together in this three-colour booklet, with new cover artwork (blue variant) created especially for Raw Materials.

Raw Materials 2: Boxes
Another unfinished, parked graphic score is deconstructed into its component parts and presented as a series of unevenly-sized boxes. With unifying new cover artwork (yellow variant) created for the Raw Materials series.