Volume 1, Issue 1 – February 2017

Volume 1, Issue 1 – February 2017

This is the first issue of Riffs! Brought together by the Riffs Editorial Team and framed through a prompt and an editorial by Professor Nick Gebhardt (Birmingham City University, UK).

“Here are mutes, liquids, aspirates – vowels, semivowels and consonants. Now we see that words have not only a definition and possibly a connotation, but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.” (Mary Oliver 1994). 

Full issue can be read here! Individual pieces are available via the links below.

Riffs (Final Design inc. DOI)

Front cover image and design: Beth Kane

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Nicholas Gebhardt – Editorial

Dan Britton – In Defiance of Any Sense of Normalcy

Alexander Hinksman – The Mastering Engineer: Manipulator of Feeling and Time

Megan Sormus – The Savage Twisting Of Vowels

Dave Kane – Bob Dylan: Nobility, Lyrics and Ghosts

Matt Grimes – How I Finally Learnt to Love…Grindcore! And in Doing so Reclaimed a Very Close Friend

Ed McKeon – Read Aloud at 4am

Andy Ingamells – Locational Aesthetics: Squashing

Beth Kane and Sarah Raine – The Felt Quality of Sound