Accident Music is simple enough. In collaboration with the Justice & Police Museum in Sydney, I drew on their wondrous archive of crime scene photos to make a weekly post concerning a town you know well.
Every Sunday night I would select a new image and supply three breath-short captions or ‘mutant haikus’ that evoke some qualities in the picture. Week by week a mesh of images and texts gave rise to a city you could live in and love in.
The project ran from late 2009 to early 2013. These are some instances.
The site as it went live can also be found on instagram at accident music
ACCIDENT MUSIC
It’s this kind of town:
Sunrise pushes the air in off the ocean. A day spent near the harbour gives a full history of radiance.
At night you can hear accident music in fog horns and pilot bells.