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Networkshop: A new project page has been opened. NEW  Self Port Gallery [Spring 2011] now open!

 Links to Other Sites Information About The Site (if you're curious)

 

• The site is designed and created with all original works by Mount Bermo Timbo (T. E. Davies), as a solo arts project. This overreaching ancient does it all himself, without so much as a modest nurse to mop his aged brow. Timbo is a grass roots artist and shambles out of the undergrowth without grant assistance or establishment patronage. (Amateur doesn’t mean “crap”, ideally it means “served up for love not money” like a good meal to a penniless beggar.. Sometimes voluntary service is a life sentence). The site is funded entirely by the artist’s minimum UK state Pension Credit. Gear for the project is usually haggled for on auction sites, or donated by friends or family.

• I've been writing poetry since the age of eleven, have been a serious musician for over forty years, and have been immersed in art photography for thirty years or so. The Mount Bermo Timbo site is the culmination of a lifetime's work. This is the way I choose to present what I do to the world for free, before I die. I still feel like a beginner, and am still learning how to do all this, so please forgive me for the experiments that fail, and for the stuff you don't like!
• The site is strictly non-commercial, and all work may be legally distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons non-commercial licence (quoted elsewhere).

• Hope you have fun with at least some of the works on the site! Cariad Timbo

WEB SITE & GALLERY RELAUNCH WINTER 2010-11  

• The gallery and web site are normally maintained and expanded in the winter months.  I've worked on my field recording project on songs, poems and instrumentals up Bermo mountain from Spring to Autumn.  I'm now going to be doing more music in the winter, in a mobile recording studio which I am setting up for music on the road.
• (Note again that the site is primarily designated for use in Mozilla Firefox. The pages are validated but not comprehensively tested for other browsers.)

• The new album A Bandage on My Need is progressing slowly. Quite a lot of work and practice, as I am trying to get better instrumentally and vocally for this one!

(A rolled up summary)

• Latest News:  Prophet Trousered Poetry is a collected poetry. I mainly write songs now, so the book of poems is pretty much complete. I may occasionally add a song or two to it, if I think it reads well on the printed page. I shall be adding a recent song called Mount Bermo Timbo's Lament this winter, and possibly one or two others.

•  I’ve been writing verse for over half a century. I started writing songs about forty years ago. At first I thought that songs were songs and poems were poems. Poems took years to finish, drafting and revising endlessly. Songs were like off duty poems, when you let your hair down writing fast and freely. These days I can’t really tell the difference. A song is just another poem with music, and a poem is a song without music. They both take about the same time to draft. Am I losing it or finding it?

 

• I don’t write much autobiographical stuff. Usually I write in character or adopt a persona. Foundry Labour Work Song on Sad Old Ram of the Mountains is the only song I can think of, which is a factual diary of the actual events I experienced, as a student doing labouring work. (Forty years later I can still smell and taste the fear of the lethal molten metal, red, spiteful and unpredictable. A mould really did explode when I poured hot metal into it. My cap and hair were set on fire, a spark of molten metal went up my nose, and it set fire to my filthy handkerchief in my sooty trousers). It was originally conceived as an A Capella work song, but I record it as a heavy metal art of noise job on the album, grinding out a history of dangerous industrial pollution. Of the poems. Ode to Nottingham Town After an Absence is factually accurate reportage without too much poetic licence. In this poem, I can recognise the narrator as me, as opposed to some persona whose skin I have crawled into.

Timbo’s Overarching Vision in the Arts

(my visionary bifocals)

• I realise I haven’t yet told you what I think I’m playing at with the site. (This assumes that I actually know!). Well, I’m not giving you my alibi in any case; I’ll let my work argue its own merits without inevitable conviction. Thanks be to  your worships, one and all!

Old Site News 2009-10

(Facts You’ve Never Wanted to Know about Mount Bermo Timbo Web Site) 

  

Notes on Downloads:

• [The downloads are not really intended for dial-up users. (Sufficiently small files would be too poor in quality!). The links to the large individual print pages are faster than the links to the mini galleries. If the image pages are slow to load on your computer, you can  always click onto a text page and move on. Or try rising up from that computer and get a life! Drink that cup of tea you have always wanted, and the picture will be there when you return, hopefully not just in your dreams!]

• When you click on a song title on the lyrics page of an album, you are directed to a download page. If you click on the song title link, you then get to an Ogg Vorbis track for play back or download. I strongly recommend saving the downloaded track on your hard disk. The quality is a lot better than streaming. 

• If your version of Mozilla Firefox offers you a streaming video player, right click the player. Click Save Video As and save the download file named with the title of the song to the folder of your choice. You can play back with the Zinf player which can be downloaded from the recording label home page, or from the LINKS page.

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