Category: Dispatches

I started this website in 2012, when the internet was hurtling towards evenly spaced content arranged on a white background, unmolested by haunted cursors or on-load music. I wasn’t having that, so I made my little corner of the internet a stubborn altar to 90s web design, hand coded in notepad and free from style sheets. It was hell to update and impossible to find anything.

Eventually I caved and decided to compromise on stye in favour of content and move my online operations over to wordpress to give me a better chance of actually using it as an online archive and channel in its own right.

I moved everything to word press in 2021 around the time, or part of, The Great Cull, wherein I got rid of a lot of stuff. I actually don’t regret much of what I got rid of and I tend to be of the rip it up and start again mindset for change. Problem was I set up a super bland front page with a few photos and links and it was so bland looking and the background was so white I hated looking at it and I think I actually didn’t load the thing up for about 2 years. I noticed promotors just link to my bandcamp anyway so it didn’t feel urgent to do anything.

Until I rekindled my excitement about rottenbliss.com by unearthing an old trodat stamp and thinking it would be nice to make calling cards again. Which means giving people this address. How awful if anyone had seen that evenly spaced monstrosity! Better knock it back into shape. Which is a fairly typical example of how odd competing forces like whimsy and shame provoke me into action.

And that brings us up to date at the dawn of The Great Restoration Project. But will this be different to the other Great Restoration Projects that have lost momentum and failed? We don’t know. But we go on anyway.

I don’t get on with social media so I don’t really have any other option for online broadcasting other than building my own little printing press.

1. It has to be easy for me to add stuff
2. it has to be easy for me to organise stuff and build pages and newsletters around categories and post date
3. must not contain the words press, bio, booking or content;
4. should be an enjoyable place to dig around for curious people regardless of whether they are familiar with me or my work

I initially had another ambition for this website – I wanted to create an online artwork of some kind. I’ve had that ambition ever since I started learning Max/MSP and saw some web embeds. But…. I already have to spend a lot of the day in front of a screen. I live in a city and I take the tube. I’d rather spend that time touching an instrument or fucking around with paint.

So, off we go

Hah I can do better than that