Books

The Foghorn's Lament (2021) (UK edition) (German edition)

Clay: A Human History (2024) (UK - White Rabbit) (US - Pegasus)

Ecstatic Dislocation: Slip-Syncs Collapse and Strange Unrealities in the films of Sogo/Gakuryu Ishii (Courtisane, 2026)

Radio

Late Junction, BBC Radio 3

Life, Death and the Foghorn, BBC Radio 4

Oh Yoko! Archive on 4, BBC Radio 4

Selected writing

Low Culture Essay: On Susumu Yokota

Noémie Goudal’s optical illusions reveal deep planetary truths

‘The perfect accompaniment to life’: why is a 12th-century nun the hottest name in experimental music?

Makoto Kubota Of Les Rallizes Dénudés Interviewed

‘Drumming is full of machismo, so vulgar, so dumb’: Valentina Magaletti, the musician giving the underground its rhythm

My Feral Shelf: On Building a Personal Library of Bad Behavior

A Shetland Lighthouse Diary

'A generation that decided to fight': making music amid chaos in Venezuela

The Impossible Cool of Ryuichi Sakamoto (1952-2023)

You Say ‘Taygo’, I Say ‘Tahgo’… Opening Can’s Pronunciation Can of Worms

Makoto Kubota Of Les Rallizes Dénudés Interviewed

The Strange World of… Derek Bailey

Earth, Wind And Fire: An Interview With Annea Lockwood

Essays and chapters in

Stereo Pair, by Phil Coy(2026)

Takashi Inagaki – Soundtracks for Toshio Matsumoto (2026)

ātamōn by Amina Hocine & Jennifer Lucy Allan (Subtext, 2025)

SOCIAL SUBSTANCE: William Cobbing (2025)

Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024)

Can – Live in Keele 1977 (2024)

Fifth Quarter: Derek Jarman, Keith Collins & Dungeness (Multiverse, 2023)

Public House: A Cultural and Social History of the London Pub (Open House, 2021)

No Bombing by Mark Edwards (Waiting Room Press, 2021)

New Music For Electronic And Recorded Media

M.T.V: Psychopomp For Mika Tapio Vainio (Blast First Petite, 2020)

Bill Fontana – Landscape Sculpture With Foghorns

From The Lighthouse (Routledge, 2019)

Selected talks and podcasts

Somerset House: Soil

Clay Eaters: A Brief History of Geophagy

Unsound: An Interrupted History of the Foghorn

Shakespeare & Co: On The Foghorn's Lament

Backlisted: Arkady & Boris Strugatsky – Roadside Picnic

Other projects

Clay & Sound zine bundle, in collaboration with DR.ME (2024)

Arc Light Editions, reissues record label, w/ James Ginzburg

Trustee, Daphne Oram Trust

Interior Motive, bid writing and mentorship, with Al Cameron

Ecstatic Material, Beatrice Dillon & Keith Harrison touring performance, OUTLANDS

Laura Cannell’s Modern Ritual

Good Energy, record label w/ Kevin McCarvel

Agent: John Ash at CAA
(Please do not contact John with music promo)