ASC — Precision, Place and Imagined Futures
James Clements on moving from Britain to California, pirate radio, sonic precision and science fiction. A 2012 look at the creative conditions behind ASC and Auxiliary.

James Clements on moving from Britain to California, pirate radio, sonic precision and science fiction. A 2012 look at the creative conditions behind ASC and Auxiliary.
Venetian folk records frame a journey through ambient drift, field recordings and slow harmonic change, tracing connections between Italian sound artists and the wintry landscapes that shape their listening.
Twenty vinyl records connect the shadowed edges of post-punk, industrial and synth-pop, with submerged rhythms, frayed guitars and spectral voices drawing a line from early eighties experiments to 2012.
Seventy-eight unreleased works from 2000–2012 form a continuous live set, where fractured rhythms, distorted melodies and microscopic sound events keep shifting the depth and shape of the surrounding space.
Eighteen records bring avant-garde composition, folk song and domestic sound into uneasy proximity, letting spoken voices, stray instrumental gestures and worn recording textures suggest unexpected connections.
Thirty-four pieces unfold as a cinematic collage of ambient, techno and unreleased experiments, with rain, spoken lectures and film dialogue threading through the transitions between suspended melody and pulse.
Pepijn Caudron on casting sounds, building environments for theatre and living with the unseen. The full 2012 conversation, with a separate 2026 editorial following Wormhole.
The first open call to the Secret Thirteen audience, announced in 2012 and followed by five Guide mixes in March 2013.
Thirty-four solo performances become an imaginary ensemble, with strings, reeds, percussion and spoken fragments meticulously layered into a cinematic montage shaped by theatre and the art of sampling.
Robin Rimbaud on sound, silence and the responsibility of listening: a hospital room, a city, a classroom and the spaces where thought can begin.
Scanner builds a cinematic collage around the letter A, interweaving twenty-nine record cuts with film dialogue, scanned conversations and broadcast fragments. His own works meet Aphex Twin, Tim Hecker and Alva Noto in a densely layered exploration of sound and narrative.
36 moves from ambient stillness into the submerged pulse of dub techno, threading twenty records into an autumnal audio collage. Two of his own compositions meet Biosphere, Tim Hecker, Deepchord and Burial in a deeply emotional, continuously unfolding sequence.