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Music Review: The Teeth of Time by Joshua Burnside

Music Review: The Teeth of Time by Joshua Burnside

A work that re-wilds the digital soundscape and incubates wonderful and exotic things in the most everyday of spaces.

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Andrew Roycroft
May 12, 2025
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My first encounter with the work of Joshua Burnside was in a tropical ravine. The Belfast Book Festival was running a poetry open mic at Belfast’s Botanic Gardens, hosted by Jan Carson, and the half-time entertainment was a performance from Burnside. He cut a striking figure amid the exaggerated foliage of hothouse plants, the air thickening with trappe…

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