Saturday, 11 April 2026

WHY I AM NOT ANON







The reason I am not Anon is that the philosopher John Stuart Mill, in his fine essay On Liberty, says a progressive country can quickly become a backward country if there is a decrease in Individuality. Particularly in my case I think it would be a grave mistake to become Anon. In me you behold someone said to have helped invent the net at 7: when the idea of the net needed storing in writing in the attic here to give it a chance to grow all the way round the world it was me that wrote it. At 8 I was the witness from The Lords And The New You Know Who twice making weird observations. At 11 I went through an experiment into the maths of the new colour and was marked by it. At 15 I attained the face which may have been scripted in the Bible. At 18 I forewarned of September 11th in 2000 and wrote an English Literature A-level exam essay marked at 100%. After school you find I recorded an album on binaural earphones, had an effervescent mobile reverberating the rhythm of ‘William Tell’ through every technological inlet in the room before it rang, hosted the Plough alignment for a rhythm change in the White House, got a First despite mental illness, worked the numinous, purple-bleeding screen, built the Tower as an instrument of philosophy, conducted an experiment into a cassette tape with a pause where cut and resealed in the flimsy reel, and discovered the sheet where pictures (seemingly depicting my own song lyric) grew. I would hazard a guess that to make someone with a CV like that Anon would represent the exact decrease in Individuality John Stuart Mill warns of. Besides, it’s illegal to force someone into Anonymity, if they don’t want it, and I don’t – there is something called the Right to Attribution.







THE SHEET



This is my brother James's sheet where pictures grew. Although I discovered it, and although the pictures seem to depict the lyric to a song I wrote, it is his number. He's a genius and says <BEE> might soon ensue from @ in the international language alphabet. 







TELEPATHIC ELEPHANT



The tape I cooked in the AGA when its pause where the reel was cut and resealed healed and was gone...















DISCOGRAPHY







To listen to The Flood, whose album was recorded on binaural earphones, visit rhythm guitarist Tom Woodhall’s page on Soundcloud.


To listen to my first solo album, ‘Songs To Record With Earphones’ [Demo 3], visit John F B Tucker’s Soundcloud page.


To listen to the E. P. I made with Grant Aspinall back when we were still called Funnelspirals, it is called ‘The A and E. P.’ by Funnelspirals and can be found on Soundcloud.


To listen to the four albums of the new da Vinci circle, even though they are not really meant to be listened to, only read in a book, visit John F B Tucker on Bandcamp and look for Various Artists.


To listen to other collaborations with Grant Aspinall, including the song ‘Eternal Full Moon,’ including when we put Blake to music, including ‘Seclusion,’ including ‘Snake Snake Butterfly’ visit Grant Aspinall on Bandcamp.


To listen to ‘Unplugged At The Foot of Sea Ness’ visit John F B Tucker on Bandcamp.


To listen to ‘Wishlist’ by The Flood, visit John F B Tucker’s other Soundcloud page.


The best one was probably the binaural earphone record, in The Flood, whom it seems I can sometimes hear sound out. The Flood’s binaural earphone recordings might be enough.