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Field Recording as Politics (opens the original)
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Field recording is the new photojournalism. In part two of The Battleground’s 7 July session at MayDay Rooms , Duncan Simpson and Joel Schalit play “Isleworth Window Noisy Arrest, Hounslow” — the most gripping track on their new LP, Outsidergrad — and unpack its context. For them, field recording is as much a tool for consciousness-raising as it is a documentary practice: sound alone, without images or narration, can capture the human condition in ways traditional reporting cannot. The discussio
The Battleground in London (opens the original)
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It was the best Battleground event yet. If you couldn’t make it, we recorded it for you. On 7 July, The Battleground launched Josh White’s new e-book, Tories Are Dead , and Outsidergrad , Duncan Simpson and Joel Schalit’s collaborative field recordings LP, at MayDay Rooms, on Fleet Street. This is the first of a three-part series. Get full access to The Battleground at thebattleground.substack.com/subscribe
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