Itinerant Mind: encounter 10 (air:wind): Feb 01, 2020

Writes Annie Morrad, "This piece is part of a three year multi-media project which includes; sound recording, video, photography, photographic documentation, screen printing, drawing and painting, mu...

Itinerant Mind: No Safe Place: Jan 18, 2020

This month’s Itinerant Mind is titled "No Safe Place”. It’s based on one durational improvisation for Supercollider and guitar performed by Ian McArthur on Mixlr in late 2019. Here though the piece is...

Itinerant Mind: Rúyì ই: Dec 21, 2019

This piece explores the experience of looking from the outside in. Written and created in tandem with experiencing a three week residency in the metropolis Chongqing in south-west China, the music her...

Itinerant Mind: Terrace on Fire: Nov 16, 2019

This month is pre-recorded and features recent reworked field recordings by Annie taken moving around the city and on the football terraces, remixed with live improvisations from our recent long form...

Itinerant Mind: Brittle: Oct 19, 2019

Write Morrad and McArthur, "Our output as artists and in particular presenters on Wave Farm depends on regular long form improvisations to which we have dedicated a considerable amount of time over re...

Itinerant Mind: Yeah I’m Ok/sinusoid: Sep 21, 2019

Morrad + McArthur have made no secret of the fact that we embrace the vagaries, dislocations, glitches, and disruptions of the internet in our live and improvised distributed performances. We’ve lik...

Itinerant Mind: 2Flux: Aug 17, 2019

This month’s Itinerant Mind remixes some of our more recent recordings of live improvisations exampled in last month’s Itinerant Mind broadcast via our usual methodology using Skype and Mixlr while j...

Itinerant Mind: Flux: Jul 20, 2019

A live improvisation for code, processed guitar, sax and field recordings. Annie Morrad and Ian McArthur live at opposite ends of the planet. They compose and play collaborative sound work and live pe...

Itinerant Mind: Leaked (2019 live out takes): Jun 15, 2019

June’s Itinerant Mind takes stock of our live improvisations so far this year with a mix of live recordings, rehearsals, and experiments conducted online.

Itinerant Mind: Tales of dark alleyways and endless bus journeys...and flights of fancy on the tube.: Jan 19, 2019

For January’s Itinerant Mind we wrap up our year long project “The Grid” with a soundscape totally comprised of recordings related to London created by Annie. This brings to a close the work we embark...

Itinerant Mind: Resounding Chongqing: Dec 15, 2018

Itinerant Mind: Project Anywhere (DroneMix): Nov 17, 2018

For much of the past year Morrad+McArthur have been collecting material as part of our Project Anywhere work “The Grid”. We’ve broadcast some of this material on Wave Farm throughout the year. We hav...

Itinerant Mind: The things we left out : Oct 20, 2018

Over the time Morrad+McArthur have worked together, we have accumulated a huge archive of recorded online interactions and improvisations. Although in producing Itinerant Mind each month we have somet...

Itinerant Mind: Gatherings- spaces, peoples, sounds : Sep 15, 2018

This month we have continued our collaborations with guests Fouad el Baidouri and Ross Oliver, and have invited artist Nathan Baxter into the mix. Ross and Nathan are part of the artist-run collectiv...

Itinerant Mind: Tropological Sketches: Aug 18, 2018

This month’s Itinerant Mind has been constructed from two recording sessions conducted online and in Lincoln, UK on July 21 2018 and subsequently edited in Sydney in the following weeks. Much of the b...

Itinerant Mind: What U hear is not what I hear: Jul 21, 2018

This month’s Itinerant Mind has been constructed from our recordings of a live telematic improv recorded on June 30. It explores the often very different recorded documents emerging from our performan...

Itinerant Mind: Half Remembered: Jun 16, 2018

This month’s Itinerant Mind draws on our very recent raw and static streaked telematic jams. But additionally, Annie has been hitting the streets of the British capital for our project "The Grid”. We...

Itinerant Mind: Different Rooms: May 19, 2018

This month’s Itinerant Mind draws on and highlights the different facets of our research and practice bringing together our Project Anywhere program with spoken word pieces from London about London,...

Itinerant Mind: Telemosis: Apr 21, 2018

This month Itinerant Mind kicks off with "In Flow" an improvisation by Annie Morrad and Ross Oliver recorded live Saturday April 14 at "Cabinet of Curiosities 4” at St Mary le Wigford in Lincoln, UK....

Itinerant Mind: Refuser: Mar 17, 2018

Last month on Itinerant Mind we mentioned our involvement with Project Anywhere the global blind peer reviewed exhibition program dedicated to promoting art and artistic research at the outermost limi...

Itinerant Mind: Now You Are Here: Feb 17, 2018

This month’s Itinerant Mind opens with a new piece titled “Emergence” recorded recently while Annie was in Australia. This is followed by an improvised piece with Ross Oliver on guitar and porcelain,...

Itinerant Mind: A Composition in Two Halves (Laced): Jan 20, 2018

The first Itinerant Mind for 2018 is based around Annie Morrad’s score for artist Andrew Bracey’s film "Lace Works." Bracey commissioned ten musicians to write the sound track to his film. The film "L...

Itinerant Mind: Streetside Chongqing: Dec 16, 2017

Annie Morrad and Ian McArthur write, "This month’s Itinerant Mind is a little more constrained in its inputs than our recent shows - more out of necessity to find a way to work easily while traveling...

Itinerant Mind: Remulched: Nov 18, 2017

This month’s Itinerant Mind program is a remix by Ian McArthur of “90 Mins in Mulch”, a live performance by Annie Morrad (sax) and Ross Oliver (guitar, water, contact microphone) at Futureshock Analo...

Itinerant Mind: Alternative Airport: Oct 21, 2017

This month’s program is based around field recordings captured at Sydney International and Nanjing airports in 2015 that are mixed into earlier experiments that we revisit and redirect. We have dubbed...

Itinerant Mind: The September Issue: Sep 16, 2017

For the “The September Issue” of Itinerant Mind, Morrad+McArthur invited guests we have encountered in recent activities at AND Event Space in London, and during a workshop Annie participated in while...

Itinerant Mind: Grid 2: Aug 19, 2017

"Grid 2" is the second composition to come out of our project “Grid”. Grid 2 is a single one hour piece constructed for code, samples, field recording, and improvised saxophones, piano, and guitars....

Itinerant Mind: 6x10: Jul 15, 2017

Welcome to the July edition of our monthly Itinerant Mind programs with Morrad+McArthur. Annie Morrad is based in the UK and Ian McArthur lives in Sydney, Australia. Every month Itinerant Mind present...

Itinerant Mind: Streetnoise: May 20, 2017

Welcome to the May edition of our monthly Itinerant Mind programs with Morrad+McArthur. Annie Morrad is based in the UK and Ian McArthur lives in Sydney, Australia. Every month Itinerant Mind presents...

Itinerant Mind: Sonic Parasite: Feb 18, 2017

Welcome to the February edition of our monthly program with Morrad+McArthur. This month’s Itinerant Mind broadcast is based around the recent live performance “Aphantasia- Caravaggio“ by artist Andr...

Itinerant Mind: BRING.IT.ON!!: Jan 21, 2017

Welcome to the first Itinerant Mind of 2017 with Morrad+McArthur. Troubling times like these call for us to be vigilant, call out bigotry, persecution and divisive voices everywhere, and above all in...

Itinerant Mind: Big Brats Live performance from Stoke: Dec 17, 2016

Welcome to the December edition of our monthly Itinerant Mind programs with Morrad+McArthur. Annie Morrad is based in the UK and Ian McArthur lives in Sydney, Australia. Every month Itinerant Mind pre...

Itinerant Mind: Like Yesterday: Nov 19, 2016

This month Morrad+McArthur return with their collaged sonic madness interspersed with aberrant slabs of telematic improv, static and drone recorded over recent weeks. Ian is back in Australia armed wi...

Itinerant Mind: ReSounding Beijing: Oct 15, 2016

Welcome to the October edition of Itinerant Mind with Morrad+McArthur. Annie Morrad is based in the UK and Ian McArthur is currently based in Chongqing, South West China. Every month Itinerant Mind pr...

Itinerant Mind: Phone vs. Fone: Sep 17, 2016

Welcome to the monthly Itinerant Mind broadcast with Morrad+McArthur. Annie Morrad is based in the UK and Ian McArthur is currently based in Chongqing in South West China. Every month Itinerant Mind p...

Itinerant Mind: Babble Fish: Aug 16, 2016

This month sees Annie Morrad (London) and Ian McArthur (Chongqing) playing live with a dense and harsher palette than their usual work creating a wall of improvised noise - Babble Fish will be an inte...

Itinerant Mind: Qing Gui Dérive: Jul 16, 2016

This month’s Itinerant Mind with Morrad+McArthur is titled 'Qing Gui Dérive’ and features a diverse, detailed mix of tracks from our new album “A Cycle of Slight Movement” (available on CD and digital...

Itinerant Mind: Pasted: Jun 18, 2016

Pasted, is the fourth episode in this monthly program produced by Morrad+McArthur. The theme is pure collage - layers of field recordings, free-form saxophones, electronics, conversations, glimpses of...

Itinerant Mind: Snakeweed: May 21, 2016

Welcome to the monthly Itinerant Mind broadcast with Morrad+McArthur. Annie Morrad is based in the UK and Ian McArthur lives in Sydney, Australia. Every month Itinerant Mind presents a mix of live tel...

Itinerant Mind: After Tea: Apr 16, 2016

Itinerant Mind: The Last Orange: Mar 19, 2016

Saturday Morning Serial: Morrad+McArthur Itinerant Mind: Feb 20, 2016

Annie Morrad and Ian McArthur live at opposite ends of the planet. They compose and play collaborative live performances through the use of digital software Mixlr and Skype. Mixlr is an Internet radio...