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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 5h

Dropping down to the A6 sketchbook for a quick session today. Used a photo reference as a starting point and let the heavy voids and frantic line work take over the structure. ⬛️🕸️ #MastoArt #MacabreArt #Sketchbook

A rapid, raw black and white ink sketch on an A6 page. It depicts a simple, desolate building with a stark black roof and a pitch-black doorway, surrounded by erratic, heavily scratched silhouettes of bare trees.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Compressing a massive landscape into an A5 sketchbook today. Synthesising the chaotic, automatic root structures in the foreground with architecture in the distance.🖋️🌘 #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism #TraditionalArt

A highly detailed traditional ink drawing on an A5 sketchbook page. The foreground is dominated by a swirling pool surrounded by dense, chaotic roots and vines. This tangled organic frame opens up to a desolate path leading toward a looming, rigid monolithic ruin in the background. A crescent moon sits in a heavily hatched sky with swirling clouds.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Weaponised nostalgia kills meaningful cultural criticism. Change my mind.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You know you’re getting older when you catch yourself waiting for the birds outside to sync up with whatever music is playing,

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A Centenary Supreme. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (2009 reissue, Impulse!)

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Outertones on @campradio.bsky.social — Interference is now in the archive. Flanigan → Sachiko M → Dreyblatt → Hayward → Mori → Hecker → Bisengalieva. 58 minutes. Signal meeting signal. 🔊 www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

A sheet of white paper displaying ten sets of five horizontal lines, resembling blank musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notation, scattered black abstract markings—including small dots, short dashes, and angled strokes—are distributed randomly across and between the lines.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A shift in scale. Letting the heavy ink anchor the foreground while a cold, calculated cityscape looms in the distance. #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism #UrbanDecay

A traditional black and white ink drawing on a sketchbook page. In the foreground, a solid black silhouette of a person sits at the base of a dead, fibrous tree with twisting branches. In the background, a bleak, desolate cityscape of jagged skyscrapers is drawn using rigid, vertical cross-hatching.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Outertones — Interference. On @campradio.bsky.social Today. 6pm CEST. Flanigan → Sachiko M → Dreyblatt → Hayward → Mori → Hecker → Bisengalieva. 58 minutes. Signal meeting signal.

This image displays a close-up view of white sheet music paper featuring standard five-line musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notes, the staves are populated with scattered black dots, short horizontal dashes, diagonal slashes, and irregular squiggles. These marks are distributed sporadically across the lines and spaces, resembling an abstract, experimental, or graphic form of musical notation.

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thursday! listen.camp 3-4pm: SloWfi on the Sofa @marieroselab.bsky.social 4-5pm: Road to Calcination (NEW!) @whettmanchelmets.bsky.social 7-8pm: Outertones @peterbarnard.bsky.social Show notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/ *⏰️CEST

Worn brown leather chair upholstery with diamond tufting and round covered buttons, showing creases and a warm glossy patina that suggests age and regular use.

A narrow canyon-like garden walkway formed by stacked stone slab walls, leading along a paved path toward trees and shrubs, shown in high-contrast black-and-white.

Handwritten experimental musical notation: a full page of staves marked by sparse, irregular ink strokes, dots, and slurs suggesting abstract melodic fragments and rhythmic gestures.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Outertones on @campradio.bsky.social :Interference. Flanigan → Sachiko M → Dreyblatt → Hayward → Mori → Hecker → Bisengalieva. Electroacoustic / experimental strings / microtonal brass / psychoacoustic / world music. 58 minutes. Signal meeting signal. Thursday 17th Sept. 2026, 6m CEST.

An image of a white page featuring multiple standard five-line musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notes, the staves are filled with a seemingly random scattering of black marks, including small dots, short dashes, slashes, and irregular squiggly lines, resembling abstract graphic notation or shorthand.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Something a bit different today. Shifting gears into symmetry and gothic architecture, but keeping the fibrous, organic textures. ⛪🖋️ #MastoArt #ArtSky #DarkArchitecture #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism

A traditional black and white ink drawing on a white background. The image depicts a symmetrical, gothic-style cathedral facade with tall spires and narrow arched windows. Instead of stone, the structure is drawn using dense, swirling, organic contour lines, making the building look as though it is formed from dark, petrified roots or muscle fibers.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Colliding two different scales today. A vast, desolate landscape being swallowed by a massive, looming organic presence in the foreground. 👁️ #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism

A traditional black and white ink drawing split into two spatial depths. The left side shows a desolate landscape with a glowing moon and a jagged, ruined skyline under a heavily lined sky. The right side is completely dominated by a massive, fleshy, organic structure containing a large, intense staring eye. Several gravestones sit at the base of the organic mass.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Stuck at the desk instead of a gig tonight. Channeled the frustration into pure texture and heavy voids. #MastoArt #AutomaticDrawing #MacabreArt #LineWork

A traditional black and white ink drawing of a dense, isolated organic mass on a white background. The structure is composed of heavy, cascading vertical contour lines, resembling a dark, fibrous root system or a hulking mound with thick tendrils reaching out from the sides.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Back at the desk and letting the post-festival atmosphere bleed onto the page. Solved my previous struggles with drawing celestial bodies by just inverting it into a massive, heavy black sun. #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism

A bleak, traditional black and white ink landscape. A massive, heavily cross-hatched black sphere hangs in the sky like a dead sun or eclipse. Below, a desolate cliff edge is covered in dozens of crude, jagged crosses overlooking a barren, heavily textured expanse.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

How would Machine Listening be defined outside of surveillance?

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Listen again: Outertones / 20th August 2026 50th: #World 86th: #Electronic Playing tracks by Catherine Christer Hennix, Pran Nath, Charlemagne Palestine, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Phill Niblock and more. @peterbarnard.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

Handwritten music manuscript showing multiple staves with sparse, irregular ink strokes, dots and short slurs forming an abstract, fragmented musical notation that reads like an experimental or sketched composition.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Otomo Yoshihide Fred Frith Blasphemy Keiji Haino Kali Malone Tangerine Dream Slayer Tortoise Peter Brötzmann Sunn O)))

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Order and chaos. Fine liner geometry suffocated by a flat permanent marker void. #MastoArt #InkDrawing #MacabreArt #LineWork

A high-contrast black and white drawing on a sketchbook page. The center features a perfectly square, hypnotic geometric structure made of repeating fine lines. The surrounding page is completely consumed by heavy, flat black permanent marker, with jagged, erratic lines of white negative space breaking through the black like cracks in a dark cavern.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Sir Richard Bishop at St Pancras Old Church, London.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew St Pancras Old Church, London.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

A heavy clash between line work and negative space. ⬛️🕸️ #MastoArt #InkDrawing #MacabreArt #LineWork #AutomaticDrawing

A dense, traditional black and white ink drawing filling a sketchbook page. The left side features tightly packed, claustrophobic organic textures, jagged teeth, and a central, stark white veiny eyeball. The right side opens abruptly into a bleak, desolate landscape with a heavy, dripping black shape hanging in the sky.

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

7-8pm: Outertones Monthly programme featuring a mix of different genres with tracks focusing on a particular sonic effect. From "drone", "rumble", "resonance" to "immersion. @peterbarnard.bsky.social | www.peterbarnard.net #Experimental #SoundArt #AvantGarde #World #Electronic *⏰️CEST

Sheet music paper with multiple staves marked by sparse, irregular ink strokes and dots suggesting experimental or improvised musical notation.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Outertones — Overtone on @campradio.bsky.social Today. 6pm CEST. Hennix → Pran Nath → Charlemagne → Szlavnics → Niblock → Connors → Hennies. 58 minutes. The harmonic series as the material.

A sheet of white paper printed with standard five-line musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notation, the staves are filled with an abstract, erratic scattering of black ink marks. These markings consist of irregular dots, short dashes, jagged lines, and chaotic scribbles distributed randomly across and between the lines, resembling an experimental or graphic musical score.

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thursday! listen.camp 3-4pm: SloWfi on the Sofa @marieroselab.bsky.social 7-8pm: Outertones @peterbarnard.bsky.social 10-11pm: Morc fm @morctapes.bsky.social Show notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/ *⏰️CEST

Tufted brown leather upholstery with round covered buttons forming a diamond pattern, showing worn creases and warm glossy highlights.

Handwritten experimental musical score with multiple staff lines marked by sparse, calligraphic ink strokes, dots, and short gestures that suggest an abstract, minimalist composition.

Six square promotional cards branded "more fm" arranged in two rows on a gray cutting mat, each listing show details and a link, with a small stack of multicolored printed paper offcuts at the right.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

New Outertones: Overtone on @campradio.bsky.social 20/07/26, 6pm CEST Hennix → Pran Nath → Palestine → Szlavnics → Niblock → Connors → Hennies. Just intonation / Kirana vocal / sustained piano / microtonal strings / drone / electroacoustic. 58 minutes. The harmonic series as the material.

This is an image of a white page printed with blank musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notation, the staves are filled with scattered, abstract black ink marks, including various dots, short dashes, lines, and squiggles.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

There's a horrifyingly poetic irony in Amazon starting out selling books to buying books and then destroying them.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Julio Le Parc at Tate Modern, London.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Julio Le Parc at Tate Modern, London.

A large-scale, immersive art installation made of hundreds of rectangular, translucent blue panels suspended from the ceiling by thin vertical wires.

A framed, abstract geometric artwork displayed against a dark wall.

A surreal, precise painting featuring a floating, abstract mechanism against a moody background.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Having a day off and letting the negative space dictate the form today. 👁️💀 #MastoArt #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #LineWork

traditional black and white ink drawing in a sketchbook. A dark, fleshy, surreal mass tapers down to a razor-thin point, connecting to a black, stone-rimmed portal on the ground. The organic mass features a macabre skull, staring eyes, and sharp teeth hidden within the dense, heavily textured ink lines.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Rarely in 20th century avant garde classical music do you get catchy titles for articles such as this. Cornelius Cardew - Stockhausen Serves Imperialism and Other Articles (1974, Latimer New Dimensions)

A book cover wrapped in a protective plastic sleeve, resting on a white windowsill. At the top left, the author's name CORNELIUS CARDEW is printed in large, black serif capital letters. Below it, the title Stockhausen Serves Imperialism is written diagonally across the middle in bold, red hand-lettered text. Along the bottom section of the cover, a black musical score snippet is displayed across a 5-line staff with intricate dynamic markings, time signatures, and complex rhythmic notation.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

On rotation: a selection of sinuous works spanning serialism, spectralism, musique concrète, and New Simplicity w/ York Höller, Robert HP Platz, Mathias Spahlinger and Walter Zimmermann. #cdfriday #classicalsky Arditti String Quartet – From Germany (1994, Montaigne)

CD album cover titled "from germany" featuring music by Höller, Platz, Spahlinger, and Zimmermann, performed by the Arditti String Quartet. The cover is split horizontally: the upper white section displays the main title and composer names in typewriter-style font, while a central red-tinted band shows a high-contrast photograph of the four quartet members leaning over a railing. The bottom section includes the release details "arditti quartet edition 18" alongside the WDR and Montaigne/Auvidis logos.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thinking about how 2020 was a strange time for listening, with live music temporarily suspended due to lockdown, and the consumption of music in physical format filling that void with a full-body experience.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Start of the week with this one particularly audacious work of musique concrète formed of national anthems and radio signals. Once saw this being performed live many moons ago. Karlheinz Stockhausen - Hymnen (1969, Deutsche Grammophon)

A black vinyl record resting on a black turntable with the tonearm positioned to the right. Behind the record player, an album cover is propped up, displaying the classic yellow Deutsche Grammophon banner at the top. The bold text on the cover reads "KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN" and "HYMNEN," with subtitles indicating it is for electronic and concrete sounds. The lower half of the cover features a white background with an abstract design of stretched, colorful, flag-like rectangular blocks arranged in horizontal lines.

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CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Listen again: Outertones / 23rd July 2026 62nd: #World Playing tracks by Mauricio Kagel, Helmut Lachenmann, Harry Partch, Ellen Fullman, Yoshi Wada and more. @peterbarnard.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

Handwritten experimental musical score showing horizontal staff lines across the page with sparse, irregular ink marks, dots, and strokes suggesting unconventional or graphic musical notation rather than standard notes.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Found via Kagi. parentheticalrecluse.com/blog/2026072...

An abstract expressionist painting dominated by a stark black and vibrant deep red color palette. The composition is formed by heavy, heavily textured brushstrokes that create a mix of swirling, chaotic curves and sharp, vertical shapes. A thick, dark pillar-like form runs down the center, surrounded by sweeping red loops and geometric angles. The paint appears to have been scraped or thickly layered, leaving highly visible bristle marks that give the piece a raw, moody, and energetic atmosphere.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Just finished On Minimalism: Documenting a Musical Movement (eds. O’Brien & Robin). Spotlighting post-minimalists like Rabinovitch, Zagny, and Southam was refreshing. The interviews with Pärt and Górecki are wonderfully thoughtful.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Never been so desperate for rain.

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

A proto-metal kind of Friday. Rainbow - Rising (1976, Polydor)

A vinyl LP record with a bright red center label spinning on a black turntable, with the tonearm in place. Displayed behind the turntable is the album jacket for Rainbow’s 1976 rock album Rising, featuring fantasy artwork by Ken Kelly of a giant fist emerging from stormy seas to grab a vibrant rainbow.

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