Industrial instrument inventor, sculptor and film maker K Of Arc shares an exclusive unreleased audiovisual work
“I think I always felt there was some other something overlaying the kind of everyday that we had,” says Kevin Craig aka K Of Arc in The Wire 461, discussing how his upbringing in an industrial new town in the North East of England during the Cold War came to influence his work as musician and film maker. “And it is kind of a darkness, I guess, and some of it does come from that nuclear fear, and some of it comes from towns that just appear and then are surrounded by much older places. [...] Philip K Dick, particularly in VALIS – he talks about that very idea of the overlay on reality, and that was the thing that really struck a chord with me.”
In “Fall Into Sleep” – an exclusive composition and accompanying video created especially for The Wire – Craig experiments in audibly and visually suggesting the uncanny veil proposed by the science fiction author.
Read the full interview with the artist and member of experimental noise group ARC Soundtracks in The Wire 461. Subscribers can also read the issue online via the digital archive.
On 14 July, K Of Arc performs alongside Teresa Winter and Futurist Bags as part of an event co-curated by The Wire's Joseph Stannard and the Gated Canal Community Collective. The live show is part of a larger series of events taking place over July to celebrate 40 years of The Wire.
