Field Lines Cartographer is the ambient & drone project of Lancaster-based
electronic musician Mark Burford.
FLC has released albums on Castles In Space, Woodford Halse, Preston's Concrete Tapes, experimental Manchester-based imprint Front & Follow, as well as featuring on numerous electronic & ambient compilations for various indepedent labels such as Soundtracking The Void, Modern Aviation, This Is It Forever & A Year In The Country.
Using analogue synths & heavily-treated field recordings, the Cartographer creates often dark, occasionally bucolic soundscapes, described in The Wire magazine as "shimmering...unsettling" & "a swirling vortex of darkness...The sound of big, strange worlds" by Electronic Sound magazine.
Field Lines Cartographer has been a guest on 2 episodes.
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VYS0029 | If There's Something Strange In Your Neighbourhood - Vayse to Face to Face with Field Lines Cartographer and Bob Freeman: Halloween 2023
October 30th, 2023 | Season 2 | 1 hr 48 mins
bob freeman, camp fire, field lines cartographer, flc, ghost stories, ghosts, halloween, occult detective, vayse
Four middle-aged men bravely join forces to confront ancient evils, spooks, spectres and ghosts - ok, so, Vayse did Ghostbusters last Halloween but instead, this year, Hine and Buckley welcome back master of the liminal soundscape, Field Lines Cartographer and the Occult Detective himself, Bob Freeman to sit around the virtual camp fire as they each tell a ghost story from their home towns.
FLC tells a tale of Warwickshire plague pits and feelings of stalking dread in the dark, Hine recounts a gruesome murder in Preston which led to bloody revenge from beyond the grave, Bob spins a classic American yarn of haunted houses in the deep, dark woods of rural Indiana and Buckley tells of the spirit of a young boy who haunts the picturesque town of Great Corby bringing those who encounter him great fortune followed by certain death.
The conversation also turns to whether ghosts are actually, really all that scary, the differences between ghost stories in the UK and the US, the nature of reality itself (of course, this is Vayse)... and digitally transported flies... (Recorded 10 October 2023)
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VYS0006 | Dreamtides - Vayse to Face with Field Lines Cartographer
September 10th, 2022 | Season 1 | 1 hr 42 mins
cartesian dualism, creativity, dreams, dreamtides, déjà vu, field lines cartographer, free will, ghosts, intuition, time loops
In this inaugural Vayse interview, Hine and Buckley talk to electronic musician, creative dreamer and fellow weirdo Mark Burford aka Field Lines Cartographer. The conversation ranges from how dreams can be part of the creative process to time loops, retrocausality and their implications on the concept of free will to Mark's very own haunted house. Recorded 28 June 2022.