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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well done Emley Moor! 10 on the Toniben Scale! I firat remember watching this as a bemused teenager. Jonathan Meades called it 'heavy entertainment' and I was in love with the surrealist style of it. Looking back, this might be where my love of hauntology began youtu.be/WWRmBXhC7Cs?...

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Meades, Remember the Future, 1997

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

@jasonhazeley.bsky.social Hi, just wanted to say thanks for the recommendation of You Could Do Something Amazing With Your Life on the OGWN podcast the other day. What an astonishing read. I think it's going to stay with me for a very long time. Looking forward to Felled.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hopping season's over All the money's spent I wish to god I'd never done No hopping down in Kent

Cutting down a really poor crop of hops in a private garden in Deal, Kent.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I come here infrequently but when I do it's always nice that I seem to have picked up someone new and hopefully interesting. I'm afraid I am, however, not that interesting, but I do enjoy a good faff around with something. This evening I dismantled, cleaned, restrung and re- set up my telecaster.

Black telecaster deluxe, all shiny and restrung, perched on a tatty old chintzy sofa.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Leave the 'smart' bullshit to your phone (and be rightly suspicious of that). If you want a great watch for being brutally accurate, indestructible, and all round brilliant, try a Casio G-Shock. If you really need all the health monitoring stuff, Garmin do great ones. Proper watches are much better.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trying to promote my own hauntological folklore-and-landscape-based media work on here while everyone I follow is right now glued to Penda's Fen on BBC4 is probably wasted effort I think...

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Agree with this. Also, audio-only is still seen as the poorer cousin of video because when you've got only some sound to listen to then WHERE DO YOU POINT YOUR EYES? Free improv guitarist Derek Bailey said he hated recorded music because 'what am I supposed to do, just stare at the wall?'

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I visited the Derwent Valley reservoir today, which is where 617 Squadron practiced the dambusters raid, and holy moly, the bravery of those young men. The sculpture erected in their memory is absolutely terrific as well. The light beams under the plane are incredibly well imagined and rendered.

Sculpture of a single Lancaster bomber commemorating 617 Squadron's 'Dambusters' raid.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

What's with all this windy all of a sudden It's not right My eyes are full of bits and the air should not have agency to make decisions

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I was lucky enough to see it in Bayeux about ten years ago. A magnificent graphic novel. Alan Moore would have been proud to have written it I reckon.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Aged about 16 I was in a punk band called Rabid Snail. Our youthy was really supportive and a volunteer drove us a 150 mile round trip to a battle of the bands event in Worthing. One band had pulled out, leaving just us and a quite good indie 5-piece who covered Radiohead's The Bends. We were shit.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Not sure why it's taken me so long to get to this as MC's book on Hauntology was instantly a favourite. Hiding in a shed at work from the rain, pooches for moral support.

Merlin Coverely's Psychography book, in a shed, with a dachshund and Jack Russell for company.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I also watched Huey from the Fun Lovin' Criminals jump into the crowd and punch a man clean out. One punch. Carried out by security to an ambulance. He threw a bottle at the singer mid-song and it hit him square in the face.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Die as in how stand-ups die? Shed Seven at the fag-end of Britpop, an audience of barely 50 in a venue for 500, the same group of ten scallies 'crowd' surfing each other across the sad-looking audience (my school German teacher was there, watching from the side of the stage, fully stoned);

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I'm told you should plug your work on social media (I feel quite uncomfortable about this which is why I don't indulge), but I've drawn a new tubemap and if you know the coastal town of Deal where I live I think you might like it. studiososs.etsy.com/listing/4548... #deal #kent #underground #tube

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NEW FOR 2026! Deal Underground Tube Map Print - Etsy

This Wall Decor item is sold by StudioSoss. Ships from United Kingdom. Listed on Aug 2, 2026

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Just finished John Higgs's excellent book Exterminate! Regenerate! so I know this now as well.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Amazon, with their streaming telly channel, could do a series where they adapt all the books, in order, set in their original time. I think this would be Good to Watch. Although some of the books are admittedly a bit narratively naive and of their time, etc.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

You should see my dog when I pick up a guitar.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

*leans back in chair, presses fingertips together, wolfishly peers through his mated hands* "Baarn-stah-puulllll".

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Folks you can talk me out of buying this if you like.

Website featuring a very attractive Epiphone electric guitar for sale. Yum. But it's £469.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

*M hands a folded piece of paper to Bond*

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Funny how all this investment and development in AI is going on and yet they can't make it take the ads out of YouTube videos and wotnot.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

My book was never digitised. It never existed on actual paper either, just to be clear

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Shouldn't have let Amazon buy Bond.

An electric lawn scarifier with the label 'Lawnraker'

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Do you remember when social media was terrible and we wished it wasn't a thing? Be careful what you wish for. The trouble is that a lot of indie creative folks rely on it as a primary platform for promoting their stuff Also, old school social media like Bluesky is now an artisanal endeavour.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I'm super grateful that the Met Office app noisily texted me at, let's see, QUARTER PAST THREE this morning to warn me of fog until 8am. Ladies and gents I have looked out of the window and also there is no fog.

Screen grab of phone's pull-down menu with Met Office notification highlighted

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

For years I've thought there should be an app for trades to review customers so that others can avoid the weird/mental/disturbed/pervert/religious extremist types. I have met so, so many flat out mental, weird and dangerous people I could have avoided.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

No waking up one morning to find all the buttons have moved and changed colour because of an update

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

In the 1980s the USA was having a puritan time of it, automobile-wise. If you look closely, the DeLorean's dashboard in Back to the Future was painted so the speedo looked like it could accommodate 88mph. In truth all dashboards then were mandated to stop at 80.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I've actually got a PhD and not sure how they're mostly funded, tbh. I got mine when there was a glut of scholarships at the uni where I was zero-hours teaching (and where I did my undergrad).

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

They missed some bits off the kit but it's ok I've got it (sorry about my bad soldering tho)

The tip of the NASA space ship looks like an electronics PCB so I've added some extra components like a resistor and a capacitor to help

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Got my CD signed by the storm yes I did

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Wait but no-one has checked about trains did he get the train maybe

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

@serailway.bsky.social Hi, I'm travelling between walmer and Canterbury west and the train is delayed from Dover, any chance the Canterbury connection in Ramsgate can be held for a moment to wait for us to come in? Thanks

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

When I worked on operator services a colleague had the most amazing mental arithmetic skills. He could add/multiply/work out the square root of the telephone numbers in the time it took to type them in. I thought he was pulling my leg until one day I took a calculator into work and, my god. Skills.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Ex-BT international operator reporting. Leading digit tells the exchange where to send the call: preceding 0 for out of current area code; preceding 1 for operator services (100, 144, 155 (where I worked)); 2-8 - local lines within your area code; 9 - emergency services. Designed for exchange speed.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

These live radio feature docs I make are done with realtime music improvisation with amazing musicians responding to the material they hear. The interview clips are pre-edited and cued on Ableton Live so the shape of the show is set, and the live Announcer and poet(s) are cued in by me "conducting".

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

The last episode of the Goodwin Sands Oral History project is up. This isn't your usual dull and worthy oral history ep - this is a hauntological radio feature doc about the sea and how it changes us. Broadcast from a wrecked ship in the Channel, it was recorded live in 2024.

Screengrab of podcast artwork. It's available wherever you get your podcasts, folks.

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Steven (with a PH) @sjksalisbury.bsky.social · 21/12/2023

Really not a fan of the wind. Why is the air in such a hurry? Where is it going? It's already outside, where else does it need to be?

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Could have helped with this if only they'd asked www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... Imaginary tubemaps, I make 'em

Imaginary London tube style map of Canterbury in Kent

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Let me tell you something, a friend of mine with MS had her nurse specialist in clinic asking ChatGPT to help choose her next medication cycle. These medications can be dangerous and have risks, not least that they might not work and you relapse and accrue disability.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Why would anyone be using that service to do research when it is often wrong (sometimes wildly wrong), and you have the entire Internet available like a giant bookshelf? Pull the books down, read, interpret and understand for yourself. Like a grown up.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I've found that applying for arts funding costs a great deal of time, and if you worked out the hourly rate and the chances of actually being awarded anything, you might as well not bother. So I don't any more. I just make some work which (hopefully) sells and use that to fund the stuff that won't.

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Dr Ben Horner @theaudiosphere.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I still have some Garfield books but my faves are the Perishers, a love inherited from my mum. Have loads of vintage books of these

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