Will Montgomery
@selvageflame.bsky.social
Reader, writer, sound-maker, Sussex dweller, Royal Holloway poetry and poetics operative, walker in air.
Out now on Suppedaneum - new music suppedaneum.bandcamp.com/album/six-do...
Six Doses, by Will Montgomery
6 track album
suppedaneum.bandcamp.com
August 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Out now on Suppedaneum - new music suppedaneum.bandcamp.com/album/six-do...
One of the strange things about living through decades is that sounds that once seemed trapped in their own time suddenly make perfect sense. Or, in other words, I’m really loving Bobby Hutcherson at the moment.
April 24, 2025 at 9:01 AM
One of the strange things about living through decades is that sounds that once seemed trapped in their own time suddenly make perfect sense. Or, in other words, I’m really loving Bobby Hutcherson at the moment.
Brighton friends - doing this next Wednesday... www.therosehill.co.uk/events/liste...
Listen Club #23: "Sound, Scores and Poetry" Curated by Will Montgomery — The Rose Hill
For Listen Club #23 Will Montgomery will explore the rich history of text-sound interaction in radical C20 and C21 soundworks, with a particular focus on poetic constellations of text and on the cross...
www.therosehill.co.uk
April 8, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Brighton friends - doing this next Wednesday... www.therosehill.co.uk/events/liste...
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TONIGHT
NEXT WEEK Karan Chambers (one of my wonderful, talented MA poets) is launching her debut chapbook at our London Campus. Woman | Folk is published by Salò Press - an incredible micro-publisher! She’ll be joined by Wendy Allen, Galia Admoni, and fellow MA poets💙
March 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
TONIGHT
Great new Pauline Oliveros radio doc on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Sunday Feature - Afterwords: Pauline Oliveros - BBC Sounds
An exploration of the work of composer and 'deep listening' pioneer, Pauline Oliveros.
www.bbc.co.uk
March 22, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Great new Pauline Oliveros radio doc on the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Banging the gong this afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJww...
Gong solo
YouTube video by montyvideo64
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March 15, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Banging the gong this afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJww...
Ornette would have been 95 today youtu.be/0fiLUR7LSsg?...
Ornette Coleman Group - Berliner Jazztage (1971)
YouTube video by Steelworker Records
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March 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Ornette would have been 95 today youtu.be/0fiLUR7LSsg?...
Reminder! Rae Armantrout reads for the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre on Friday, 14 March. Rae will be reading new work and material from her recent book Go Figure. 6pm Room 1, Stewart House (access via Senate House library), London WC1E 7HU. Free entry. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rae-armant...
March 3, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Reminder! Rae Armantrout reads for the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre on Friday, 14 March. Rae will be reading new work and material from her recent book Go Figure. 6pm Room 1, Stewart House (access via Senate House library), London WC1E 7HU. Free entry. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rae-armant...
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as we now live in particularly revolutionary times, I decided to make Michael Pisaro-Liu's fantastic 'Revolution Shuffle' fully streamable on Bandcamp.
check it out if you haven't, and hopefully be inspired to overthrow these toads.
check it out if you haven't, and hopefully be inspired to overthrow these toads.
Revolution Shuffle, by Michael Pisaro-Liu
106 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
February 21, 2025 at 4:45 PM
as we now live in particularly revolutionary times, I decided to make Michael Pisaro-Liu's fantastic 'Revolution Shuffle' fully streamable on Bandcamp.
check it out if you haven't, and hopefully be inspired to overthrow these toads.
check it out if you haven't, and hopefully be inspired to overthrow these toads.
Incoming and brought to you by the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre: the magnificent Rae Armantrout! Senate House, London, 14 March, 6pm. www.eventbrite.ie/e/1232749098...
Rae Armantrout Poetry Reading
Rae Armantrout reads new and recent work
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February 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Incoming and brought to you by the Royal Holloway Poetics Research Centre: the magnificent Rae Armantrout! Senate House, London, 14 March, 6pm. www.eventbrite.ie/e/1232749098...
Great, detailed, impassioned review of the new Raworth by Luke Roberts: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Luke Roberts, Making Games — Sidecar
Tom Raworth’s ‘Cancer’.
newleftreview.org
February 8, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Great, detailed, impassioned review of the new Raworth by Luke Roberts: newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Grace it is to be alive and to listen again this morning to Bitches Brew. I’m different every time and so is it.
January 17, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Grace it is to be alive and to listen again this morning to Bitches Brew. I’m different every time and so is it.
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Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
There is a narrow window. Public media and fair reporting must be supported: the rules must be upheld
In early 2017, Mark Zuckerberg was on what might be termed an “apology tour” of the United States. In the tumultuous few months since Donald Trump won…
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January 11, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg have declared war on facts and truth. The pushback must start now | Emily Bell
This release is old but I was astonished a) to find Iggy Pop and Carsten Nicolai together on a Walt Whitman collaboration and b) to find how much I enjoyed it. morrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/leaves...
Leaves Of Grass, by Iggy Pop / Tarwater / Alva Noto
7 track album
morrmusic.bandcamp.com
December 31, 2024 at 1:14 PM
This release is old but I was astonished a) to find Iggy Pop and Carsten Nicolai together on a Walt Whitman collaboration and b) to find how much I enjoyed it. morrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/leaves...
Fair comment. The room is not being read.
The six UCU Commons HEC members have put out an interim statement on HEC's decision of 12th December. Please read and share:
ucucommons.org/2024/12/13/i...
ucucommons.org/2024/12/13/i...
Interim Statement from HEC Members on the 12th December HEC Decision
This is an interim statement by UCU Commons HEC members in response to HEC’s decision on 12th December to call an industrial action ballot for spring 2025. This decision to call an IA ballot …
ucucommons.org
December 14, 2024 at 5:48 PM
Fair comment. The room is not being read.
School’s out. Off to Essaouira tomorrow to recharge after a demanding year. I’ve never been. Suggestions welcome.
December 13, 2024 at 9:45 AM
School’s out. Off to Essaouira tomorrow to recharge after a demanding year. I’ve never been. Suggestions welcome.
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Yes.
Albert Ayler Quintet - Munich 1966
YouTube video by Jay Korber
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December 11, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Yes.
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How lovely this is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbt6...
Eric Dolphy's Parents Interview-1975
YouTube video by MikeBrainfollies
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December 5, 2024 at 5:41 PM
How lovely this is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbt6...
Enjoying these warped sonnets at the moment
December 3, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Enjoying these warped sonnets at the moment
All a-tremble in anticipation of Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett tonight
November 29, 2024 at 9:34 AM
All a-tremble in anticipation of Feldman’s For Samuel Beckett tonight
First audio recording I’ve made in a while - Storm Bert soundcloud.com/will-montgom...
Butchers Wood Storm Bert
Wind in the trees of Butchers Wood, Hassocks, during Storm Bert, 24 November 2024.
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November 24, 2024 at 5:06 PM
First audio recording I’ve made in a while - Storm Bert soundcloud.com/will-montgom...
Bud Powell was composer of the week on BBC R3 this week. Hours of pleasure.
November 15, 2024 at 8:09 PM
Bud Powell was composer of the week on BBC R3 this week. Hours of pleasure.
Coming very soon, this delectable collection of audio works made by poets. Featuring Tom Betteridge, Iris Colomb, Amy Cutler, David Grundy, Clay Slade, Andy Spragg, Laurel Uziell.
March 9, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Coming very soon, this delectable collection of audio works made by poets. Featuring Tom Betteridge, Iris Colomb, Amy Cutler, David Grundy, Clay Slade, Andy Spragg, Laurel Uziell.
Having an Art Tatum / Ben Webster morning.
February 3, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Having an Art Tatum / Ben Webster morning.