Malcolm Bradley - DILATIONS

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Amongst this chaos sits Malcolm Bradley’s intensively physical and autobiographical practice, offering meditative moments on the corporeal body and its symbiotic relationship with the mind, bringing you into the real-time present. Dilations has emerged from an ongoing conversation with San Francisco based pioneering electronic musician Joel Graham, who self-released the hypnotic track Geomancy in 1982. It was re-released by record label Music From Memory in 2015, who described his sound as “manifest(ing) a doorway to a profound new world and can be seen as a forerunner of what was to come in electronic music”.³ Bradley described their relationship as that of feedback, or ‘taking notes’. Intermittently via email, they send each other photographs, samples, drawings, extracts of text and edits of the other’s work. Fragments of these exchanges are compiled into Bradley’s prints: a photograph of Graham recording in the studio in 17:26, a drawing of his arm in 14:45, soundwaves of his track etched into the surface of Dilations II. Graham puts his music through a visualiser, turning a sound into an image. This conjuring of affect i