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Listen: Helena Celle's Time Binding Ensemble

November 2021

Glasgow based producer, composer and avant prog musician Kay Logan unlocks a past transmission from the underworld

Patreon supporters of Glasgow based artist Kay Logan will be familiar with Helena Celle’s Observer Effect – her fortnightly half hour-long uploads of original music from some of her many aliases. In her interview with Abi Bliss in The Wire 454, Logan refers to Observer Effect as “a bit like an imaginal radio broadcast from the underworld”.

Here, Logan unlocks one of those many transmissions for Wire readers. Helena Celle's Time Binding Ensemble is Logan's name for her experiments with software instrument chamber compositions and is a reference to the general semantics work of Polish-American scholar Alfred Korzybski.


Read about Logan's many aliases and areas of musical experimentation, the inspiration she takes from artists Alasdair Gray and Austin Osman Spare, and how she attempts to represent the unconscious through aural symbols in her
Wire interview in issue 454. Subscribers can also read the article online via the digital archive.

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