Memorex Mori released

The new Conflux Coldwell album is another product of my ongoing practice research into media hauntology, and another musical work that is also a film. Subexotic Records agreed to release it on vinyl last year, and the records have finally arrived. Punters who buy the record will also get a free download of the film. We held a successful listening party on Bandcamp last week, and the album has already been reviewed in esteemed experimental music publication, The Wire (see excerpt below).

"On Memorex Mori, Leeds based musician and academic Dr Mick Schofield aka Conflux Coldwell approaches tape as a different type of keepsake, its built-in decline less a reminder of death's finality than an analogy for memory's slow decay and a means to question the truth of recollection... magnetic crackle as sepia sunshine, glitching tape squall standing in for the daydream-like skipping of details."

"Tardis telemetry or a sliver of some long-defunct regional television ident... Schofield's pieces subvert the fabric of the VHS medium to illustrate its eeriness" The Wire

https://confluxcoldwell.bandcamp.com/album/memorex-mori

There is also a subtext regarding climate change and “climate realism” in the work, which I plan to tease out further at a screening in Dublin in 2024, for the Sounds of Resistance symposium at DCU.