Publiished 1996

The Elk Beach Spores Issue

Bound by the void: Holger Czukay
        
Talitha Mackenzie, Mouth Music and the Scotland/Africa connection
        
Clay and Computers - Marion Brandis
        
Dreaming the 20th century art sphere - Michael Tucker
        
Paul Ryan's 'Video Mind'
        
      Fourth  Door Review's   inaugural Elk Beach Spores edition features music interviews with Scottish Highlands and Islands singer Talitha MacKenzie and band Mouth Music on ancient Gallic singing with twentieth century  music tech and Holger Czukay's living studio musics and privat philharmonium 
      
We also introduce Paul Ryan's Video-Mind for sensitising communities to ecosystems, ceramicist Marion Brandis on applying Quark Xpress to her claywork, and an in-depth review of Shaman-Theoretician Michel Tucker's Dreaming with Open Eyes exploration on the connections between Shamanism and twentieth century art practice.
   We also introduce Paul Ryan's Video-Mind for sensitising communities to ecosystems, ceramicist Marion Brandis on applying Quark Xpress to her claywork, and an in-depth review of Shaman-Theoretician Michel Tucker's Dreaming with Open Eyes exploration on the connections between Shamanism and twentieth century art practice.
      Full Contents
Margins of Music
Margins of Music
          
          Talitha Mackenzie  original Mouth Musician turned solo singer   
        
         Mouth Music  Highland Scotland's techno-Gael dance masters
        
          Holger Czukay  Can's studio wizard in-depth on music, machines, technology and the natural universe
    
  Makeshift/Middleground
          The Weald & Downland's vernacular data base  Singleton Open Air Museum
        
          
         Marion Brandis Clay and Ceramics
          Lovely recipe's  Mushroom and nut roast
    
      Wordwatch – Book  Reviews
    
          
          How Video art could reconnect us to the Bioregion and Watershed - Video Mind, Earth Mind by Paul Ryan  
        
         20th century Art as a Shaman's story - Dreaming With Open Eyes by Michael Tucker
    






