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Peter Barnard
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Artist/Sound Maker. I also host a quarterly radio programme, ‘Outertones’ on at CAMP. (he/him)

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Cover design for 70s Pelican books always on point.
A paperback copy of “Seven Types of Ambiguity” by William Empson, published as a Pelican Book. The cover features a geometric pattern of interlocking cubes in black, white, and bright coral against a white background, with the Pelican logo in the top right corner.
November 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Grisey last night at Queen Elizabeth Hall. Plus Cassandra Miller, Rebecca Saunders, and John White. Pardon the dream house lighting.
A blue-lit promotional poster for a London Sinfonietta concert titled “Grisey: Quatre Chants.” The text describes Gérard Grisey’s Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil and additional works by Cassandra Miller, Rebecca Saunders, and John White. The poster includes the date “Friday 28 November” and “25/26 Season,” along with a QR code linking to the full programme. The lower half shows a close-up, blue-tinted photograph of an unidentified man’s face, resting his hand against his cheek. At the bottom, the Southbank Centre logo appears with the word “Resident.” A dimly lit concert stage set up for an orchestral performance. Empty music stands and chairs are arranged across the wooden floor, with various percussion instruments, a harp, and stands visible. Blue stage lighting illuminates the back wall, creating a dramatic atmosphere. No musicians are present, giving the space a quiet, anticipatory feeling.
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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An early milestone in electronic music from 1956. Still audacious 69 years on.

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Gesang der Jünglinge/Kontakte (1962, Deutsch Grammophon) #vinyl #nowplaying
A vinyl record is playing on a turntable in front of the album cover for Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Gesang der Jünglinge · Kontakte.
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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An anatomy illustration remade as a 3D mesh, broken apart, reprinted, and re-scanned. #art #artsky
High-contrast black-and-white image of a distorted human head. Teeth, muscle textures, and polygonal mesh patterns overlap and fragment, creating a chaotic, glitch-like surface.
November 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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An odd combination of sorts #art #artsky #drawing #inkdrawing
Abstract black-ink drawing featuring a set of large, uneven teeth at the center, surrounded by intersecting geometric shapes including rectangles, triangles, and a grid. Dense cross-hatching and scribbled textures fill many of the shapes. An eye-like circular form appears in the upper left. The overall composition is chaotic and layered, with heavy shadows and overlapping lines.
November 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Drafting… #art #sketchbook #wip.
A photo of a sketchbook page featuring three triangle studies in black ink. The top triangle is large and divided vertically: the left side is a solid, heavy black mass, while the right side consists of chaotic, aggressive scribbles representing structure. Below it are two smaller triangles with a similar design, but with much neater, more controlled shading and sharper edges.
November 24, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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A study in grey areas. ⚫️⬜️ #artsky
photograph of a hand-drawn sketch on textured white paper. The drawing features several geometric shapes: a dark, textured sphere in the lower left; two overlapping vertical rectangles in the center, one taller than the other, shaded in grey with a darker blue-grey overlap area; and a dark horizontal parallelogram in the upper right. A diagonal black line runs from the bottom left, passing through the sphere and the rectangles, and ending towards the top right. The drawing is executed in pencil and what appears to be watercolor or ink, showing brushstrokes and paper texture.
November 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Tortoise at Barbican Hall, London. Part of EFG London Jazz Festival.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Discovered this back in my art school days. Still deeply transcendent on every listen. #cdfriday #jazzsky #nowplaying

Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness (1971/2002, Verve Records/Impulse!)
An album cover with a colorful, soft-focus background of green and yellow foliage. In the foreground, a smiling person with a large afro hairstyle wears a vibrant, patterned garment and a red scarf. Text in the upper right reads “alice coltrane – universal consciousness,” and the Impulse! record label logo appears near the bottom.
November 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Yellow bumper sticker reads: "Keep Honking! I'm Listening to Alice Coltrane's 1971 Meteoric Sensation 'Universal Consciousness'” in bold black text.
November 20, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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(A) clearing. 🌌🖊️ #artsky #drawing #inkdrawing
A black and white ink sketch of a windswept field at night. In the foreground, thick, diagonal strokes depict tall grass bending sharply to the right. Above, a round moon sits in a sky filled with scratchy, horizontal lines that suggest moving clouds and wind.
November 20, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Bouns score for Ferneyhough’s ‘Time And Motion Study II’.
A detailed, black and white musical score is displayed, featuring intricate notation across multiple staves. The page is densely filled with symbols, lines, and text, indicating various musical parameters and instructions. There are two main sections of music, separated by a horizontal line, each with its own tempo and dynamic markings. The top section is labeled "2.54" with a tempo indication of "Suddenly new movement, but erratic, then again 'heating up'," and "q=48". The bottom section is labeled "IV.1 36 approx." with the instruction "Gran Adagio" with passionate dedication and self-transcendence. Below the bottom section is a smaller text box with additional performance notes. The overall impression is one of complexity and precision, characteristic of modern classical composition.
November 19, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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I like difficult music and you should too.

Thomas Kessler / Brian Ferneyhough – Basler Komponisten New Music From Basle (198?, Musicaphon/Basler Komponisten New Music From Basle) #nowplaying
A Basler Komponisten (New Music from Basle) record album cover resting on a turntable with a black vinyl record playing. The album cover features a black and white image of a view of a city on a river, framed by a dark, abstract, arched concrete or stone structure. The text on the cover lists the composers and works: "Brian Ferneyhough Time And Motion Study II," "Thomas Kessler Piano Control," and "SMOG”
November 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Took a public domain geological image and converted it into a 3D STL mesh. Then, overlaid the wireframe back onto the original photo. 🖼️🕸️ #artsky
A low-angle, abstract, black-and-white image of a geological cross-section features a large, dark, rocky formation occupying the lower three-quarters of the frame. This formation is composed of horizontal layers of varying thickness, suggesting different strata or sediment. The rock face is highly textured, with subtle variations in tone that give it depth. The upper quarter of the image is a light, almost blank sky, subtly tinged with beige, creating a contrast with the dark rock. Overlaid on this geological scene is a dense, intricate network of thin white lines forming a triangulated mesh. These lines create a polygonal wireframe effect, dissecting the rock formation into numerous irregular shapes. The mesh is particularly dense along the contours of the rock and along the lines representing the different strata within the formation. The overall impression is one of a deconstructed or digitized landscape, where the natural forms are broken down into geometric components.
November 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Art of the day.

László Moholy-Nagy - Construction IX (1922). Colour lithograph in black and green on wove paper.
A geometric abstract artwork featuring overlapping black, white, and gray vertical shapes and thin intersecting lines on a muted light-green background. The forms resemble elongated panels or planes arranged in a balanced, architectural composition.
November 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Outertones broadcasting today at 6pm CEST on @campradio.bsky.social. This month’s episode explores the concept of overlap where boundaries between tone, rhythm, and texture dissolve.

With works by Catherine Lamb, Christina Vantzou, Angélica Castelló and more!
A close-up photograph of a page of musical notation, but instead of traditional notes, the staves are filled with abstract, scribbled lines and dots. The page is white with nine horizontal black staves running across it. On each stave, there are varying patterns of thin, jagged, and curved black lines, some short and sharp, others longer and more flowing, along with numerous small black dots. Some of the marks resemble highly distorted or deconstructed musical symbols. The overall impression is one of chaotic or unconventional musical scoring, or perhaps a visual representation of sound or noise rather than conventional melody.
November 13, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Misc. sketches #artsky #drawing #inkdrawing
A pen sketch on beige paper showing two figures. On the left, a rough outline of a human head and shoulders with minimal facial detail. On the right, a detailed drawing of an upside-down bat hanging with its wings partially wrapped around its body, rendered with dense cross-hatching and fine lines to show texture and shading.
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Broadcast this Thursday on @campradio.bsky.social , 13 Nov at 6pm CEST.
This edition of Outertones focuses on ‘overlap’, sounds that share space, intersect, and drift across one another.

Featuring Lamb, Vantzou, Castelló, Rasmussen & Corsano, Reich, Parkins & Mori, and Oliveros.
A close-up shot shows a page of sheet music with ten staves, each filled with what appear to be abstract or highly experimental musical notations. The lines and dots on the staves do not resemble traditional musical notes but instead form a series of disconnected, often jagged or flowing, ink marks. Each stave presents a unique pattern of these marks, suggesting a non-conventional approach to musical composition or a visual representation of sound rather than standard notation. The background is white, and the lines of the staves are black, as are the ink markings.
November 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Another public domain image turned into an SVG wireframe before being superimposed onto said image. ⛪️🕸️ #artsky
A black-and-white photograph of a cathedral interior overlaid with an intricate web-like pattern of white lines. The lines form a geometric mesh that distorts and fragments the view of the arches, columns, and vaulted ceiling, creating a tension between architectural order and chaotic abstraction. The image evokes a sense of fragility, as though the cathedral is encased in a cracked or crystalline structure.
November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Variation on previous drawing 👁️🦑 #artsky #drawing #inkdrawing
Black ink drawing of a single eye surrounded by a mass of twisting, tentacle-like forms. The eye is centered and appears to emerge from the chaotic, organic shapes that radiate outward in all directions. The intricate linework gives the image a surreal, unsettling, and otherworldly quality.
November 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Back to drawing again. 👁️🦑 #artsky #drawing #inkdrawking
Black and white ink drawing of a single eye in the center of a circular frame. Surrounding the eye are twisting, tentacle-like shapes that weave in and out of each other, creating an intricate, abstract pattern. The background is filled with black ink, emphasizing the white lines and the detailed eye at the center.
November 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Started with a public domain image, turned the structure into an SVG wireframe, then composited and distorted it through a Xerox machine. #artsky #digitalart
An abstract, geometric image depicts a deconstructed architectural scene using a network of connected blue lines against a dark background. The lines form numerous triangles and quadrilaterals, outlining what appears to be a building with an arched entrance or window on the left. To the right, another structure is suggested by similar geometric patterns, with a jagged, irregular shape on the far right perhaps indicating a mountain or a more abstract form. The overall impression is a complex, wireframe representation of a landscape or cityscape, emphasizing its underlying structure rather than its surface details.
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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An .stl generated from an image of an ocean superimposed on top of said image. #artsky #digitalart
An abstract black-and-white image showing a dense network of irregular, web-like lines concentrated in the lower half, resembling cracked surfaces or interconnected cells. The upper portion has sweeping diagonal lines that stretch toward the corners, creating a sense of tension or suspension. The background transitions from dark near the center to white at the top.
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Back to making 3D printing files and xeroxing them. 💀🕸️ #artsky
A black-and-white abstract illustration made of thin triangular mesh lines. It shows a human skeleton figure kneeling and holding down a deer-like animal that is also drawn as a skeletal, geometric form. Both figures are composed of intersecting lines and points, giving a web-like, fragmented appearance. The background is black, with the mesh extending outward to the image edges like a stretched network.
November 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Drifting between the sparse, uneasy quiet of Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza and Scelsi’s sustained microtonal tones. A study in tension between structure and sound.

Mark Fell - Psychic Resynthesis (2025, @frozenreeds.com )
A close-up shot of a vinyl record playing on a turntable, with an orange album cover featuring a skull design standing upright behind it. The record is black and reflective, showing some light glare, and the turntable's tonearm is positioned over the record. The album cover is predominantly orange with text that includes "PSYCHIC RESYNTHESIS," "MARK FELL," "23," and "FROZEN REEDS FR44V." The skull on the cover is rendered in a high-contrast style, making its features stark against the orange background. The background is a light-colored wall.
November 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM