Bedtime Story Conservatory
A project consisting of a mailing list, to which I send out audio recordings of myself reading interested texts, poems, short stories and other bits and bobs I have gotten excited about. Alongside the reading is often some visual material, thoughts, feelings and reflections. The project, beginning in late March 2020, is on-going. Below is the accumulation of all emails and readings I have sent out since the project began. In building this archive, the material included morphs together to form some sort of larger image or feeling, generates abstract links thematically and visually, and in turn gives rise to meaning.
I can only hope, in this time especially, that these emails act as a moment of warmth, clarity, engagement or escape for the receiver.
An email is sent out every day.
To join, email me at samuelthompson-plant@hotmail.com
Bedtime Story Conservatory 56 22/05/2020
Inner scream, texts from the Iowa Review (Volume 26, Issue 3, 1996 Fall)
Bedtime Story Conservatory 54 20/05/2020
Visible Man, or the Culture of Film 1924, Béla Balázs
Bedtime Story Conservatory 50 16/05/2020
Automatic Verbal Reaction to Daydream 1969, Wallace Collection, Samuel Thompson-Plant
Bedtime Story Conservatory 47 13/05/2020
The Spring Tune from Tales From Moominvalley 1962, Tove Jansson
Bedtime Story Conservatory 43 08/05/2020
Sense of Humour and Reason in Animals 1875, George J. Romanes
Bedtime Story Conservatory 42 07/05/2020
The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away 1977, Ilya Kabakov
Bedtime Story Conservatory 41 06/05/2020
No title, a narrative for a film, 2020, Amy Begent
Bedtime Story Conservatory 40 05/05/2020
1577 Poem about the Shuck from the 5th edition of Lantern 1974