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Peter Barnard

@peterbarnard.bsky.social

Artist/Sound Maker. I also host a quarterly radio programme, ‘Outertones’ on at CAMP. (he/him) www.peterbarnard.net

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 13h ago

Some weekend ink practice focusing on architectural forms. #Architecture #ArchitecturalSketch #InkDrawing #Sketchbook #ArtSky

Two black ink architectural sketches on a sketchbook page. The top sketch depicts a modern, single-story building with a wide, low-pitched gable roof, large windows, and a heavily shaded central section, set against simple curved lines suggesting hills. The bottom sketch shows a modernist, rectangular pavilion with a flat overhanging roof and glass walls, elevated on a raised deck with potted plants, positioned in front of jagged mountain outlines.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 16h ago

Something appropriate for spook season. Kirk, T. (ed.) (2016) The Haunted Library: Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves. London: British Library.

A photograph of a book lying on a wooden surface. The cover features an eerie, black-and-green illustration of shadowed figures in a dark library with towering shelves and a glowing candle. The title reads "THE HAUNTED LIBRARY: TALES OF CURSED BOOKS AND FORBIDDEN SHELVES". Below the title, it says "EDITED BY TANYA KIRK", and at the bottom, text reads "BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD".

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last wk.

Entangled and consumed. Letting the heavy ink dictate the form over the last two nights. #MastoArt #AutomaticDrawing #MacabreArt

CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · last wk.

Listen again: Outertones / 17th September 2026 85th: #World Playing tracks by Lesley Flanigan, Sachiko M, Arnold Dreyblatt, Alvin Lucier, Ikue Mori and more. @peterbarnard.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

Handwritten musical manuscript showing rows of staff lines peppered with sparse, irregular ink strokes and dot-like note markings that form a minimal, abstract musical score.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last wk.

Cardew was right break away from the mysticism of Stockhausen & Cage, but his Maoist "liberation music" was just a theological sermon tbh.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dropping down to the A6 sketchbook for a quick session today. Used a photo reference as a starting point and let the heavy voids and frantic line work take over the structure. ⬛️🕸️ #MastoArt #MacabreArt #Sketchbook

A rapid, raw black and white ink sketch on an A6 page. It depicts a simple, desolate building with a stark black roof and a pitch-black doorway, surrounded by erratic, heavily scratched silhouettes of bare trees.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2w ago

Compressing a massive landscape into an A5 sketchbook today. Synthesising the chaotic, automatic root structures in the foreground with architecture in the distance.🖋️🌘 #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism #TraditionalArt

A highly detailed traditional ink drawing on an A5 sketchbook page. The foreground is dominated by a swirling pool surrounded by dense, chaotic roots and vines. This tangled organic frame opens up to a desolate path leading toward a looming, rigid monolithic ruin in the background. A crescent moon sits in a heavily hatched sky with swirling clouds.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2w ago

Weaponised nostalgia kills meaningful cultural criticism. Change my mind.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2w ago

You know you’re getting older when you catch yourself waiting for the birds outside to sync up with whatever music is playing,

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 3w ago

A Centenary Supreme. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (2009 reissue, Impulse!)

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 3w ago

Outertones on @campradio.bsky.social — Interference is now in the archive. Flanigan → Sachiko M → Dreyblatt → Hayward → Mori → Hecker → Bisengalieva. 58 minutes. Signal meeting signal. 🔊 www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

A sheet of white paper displaying ten sets of five horizontal lines, resembling blank musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notation, scattered black abstract markings—including small dots, short dashes, and angled strokes—are distributed randomly across and between the lines.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 3w ago

A shift in scale. Letting the heavy ink anchor the foreground while a cold, calculated cityscape looms in the distance. #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism #UrbanDecay

A traditional black and white ink drawing on a sketchbook page. In the foreground, a solid black silhouette of a person sits at the base of a dead, fibrous tree with twisting branches. In the background, a bleak, desolate cityscape of jagged skyscrapers is drawn using rigid, vertical cross-hatching.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 4w ago

Outertones — Interference. On @campradio.bsky.social Today. 6pm CEST. Flanigan → Sachiko M → Dreyblatt → Hayward → Mori → Hecker → Bisengalieva. 58 minutes. Signal meeting signal.

This image displays a close-up view of white sheet music paper featuring standard five-line musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notes, the staves are populated with scattered black dots, short horizontal dashes, diagonal slashes, and irregular squiggles. These marks are distributed sporadically across the lines and spaces, resembling an abstract, experimental, or graphic form of musical notation.

CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · 4w ago

Thursday! listen.camp 3-4pm: SloWfi on the Sofa @marieroselab.bsky.social 4-5pm: Road to Calcination (NEW!) @whettmanchelmets.bsky.social 7-8pm: Outertones @peterbarnard.bsky.social Show notes: www.facebook.com/CampFRRadio/ *⏰️CEST

Worn brown leather chair upholstery with diamond tufting and round covered buttons, showing creases and a warm glossy patina that suggests age and regular use.

A narrow canyon-like garden walkway formed by stacked stone slab walls, leading along a paved path toward trees and shrubs, shown in high-contrast black-and-white.

Handwritten experimental musical notation: a full page of staves marked by sparse, irregular ink strokes, dots, and slurs suggesting abstract melodic fragments and rhythmic gestures.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 4w ago

New Outertones on @campradio.bsky.social :Interference. Flanigan → Sachiko M → Dreyblatt → Hayward → Mori → Hecker → Bisengalieva. Electroacoustic / experimental strings / microtonal brass / psychoacoustic / world music. 58 minutes. Signal meeting signal. Thursday 17th Sept. 2026, 6m CEST.

An image of a white page featuring multiple standard five-line musical staves. Instead of traditional musical notes, the staves are filled with a seemingly random scattering of black marks, including small dots, short dashes, slashes, and irregular squiggly lines, resembling abstract graphic notation or shorthand.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 4w ago

Something a bit different today. Shifting gears into symmetry and gothic architecture, but keeping the fibrous, organic textures. ⛪🖋️ #MastoArt #ArtSky #DarkArchitecture #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism

A traditional black and white ink drawing on a white background. The image depicts a symmetrical, gothic-style cathedral facade with tall spires and narrow arched windows. Instead of stone, the structure is drawn using dense, swirling, organic contour lines, making the building look as though it is formed from dark, petrified roots or muscle fibers.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 4w ago

Colliding two different scales today. A vast, desolate landscape being swallowed by a massive, looming organic presence in the foreground. 👁️ #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism

A traditional black and white ink drawing split into two spatial depths. The left side shows a desolate landscape with a glowing moon and a jagged, ruined skyline under a heavily lined sky. The right side is completely dominated by a massive, fleshy, organic structure containing a large, intense staring eye. Several gravestones sit at the base of the organic mass.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last mo.

Stuck at the desk instead of a gig tonight. Channeled the frustration into pure texture and heavy voids. #MastoArt #AutomaticDrawing #MacabreArt #LineWork

A traditional black and white ink drawing of a dense, isolated organic mass on a white background. The structure is composed of heavy, cascading vertical contour lines, resembling a dark, fibrous root system or a hulking mound with thick tendrils reaching out from the sides.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last mo.

Back at the desk and letting the post-festival atmosphere bleed onto the page. Solved my previous struggles with drawing celestial bodies by just inverting it into a massive, heavy black sun. #MastoArt #ArtSky #InkDrawing #DarkSurrealism

A bleak, traditional black and white ink landscape. A massive, heavily cross-hatched black sphere hangs in the sky like a dead sun or eclipse. Below, a desolate cliff edge is covered in dozens of crude, jagged crosses overlooking a barren, heavily textured expanse.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last mo.

How would Machine Listening be defined outside of surveillance?

CAMP Radio @campradio.bsky.social · last mo.

Listen again: Outertones / 20th August 2026 50th: #World 86th: #Electronic Playing tracks by Catherine Christer Hennix, Pran Nath, Charlemagne Palestine, Chiyoko Szlavnics, Phill Niblock and more. @peterbarnard.bsky.social | www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

Handwritten music manuscript showing multiple staves with sparse, irregular ink strokes, dots and short slurs forming an abstract, fragmented musical notation that reads like an experimental or sketched composition.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last mo.

Otomo Yoshihide Fred Frith Blasphemy Keiji Haino Kali Malone Tangerine Dream Slayer Tortoise Peter Brötzmann Sunn O)))

Nigel Wallis@mole9.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh go on then. Introduce yourself with 10 acts you've seen live: Don Cherry The Sugarcubes Ivor Cutler :Zoviet*France: Ian Dury and the Blockheads Pauline Oliveros R.E.M. The Blue Nile Jimmy Scott Sunn 0)))

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last mo.

A descent into the void. 🕳️✒️ #MastoArt #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #Surrealism #MacabreArt

A traditional black and white ink drawing. A structured, one-point perspective staircase leads down a narrow corridor into the darkness. The rigid architecture is heavily framed and consumed by sprawling, chaotic white tendrils against thick black voids. A cluster of hollow-eyed skulls hangs ominously over the entrance to the corridor.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · last mo.

Order and chaos. Fine liner geometry suffocated by a flat permanent marker void. #MastoArt #InkDrawing #MacabreArt #LineWork

A high-contrast black and white drawing on a sketchbook page. The center features a perfectly square, hypnotic geometric structure made of repeating fine lines. The surrounding page is completely consumed by heavy, flat black permanent marker, with jagged, erratic lines of white negative space breaking through the black like cracks in a dark cavern.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Work in progress. #InkDrawing #TraditionalArt #LineArt

A high-contrast black and white abstract ink drawing. A central square composed of heavily textured concentric lines creates an optical, tunnel-like effect. From this center, jagged white lines resembling lightning bolts, roots, or cracking veins radiate outwards into a solid black background.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Petrified textures and heavy voids. #MastoArt #DarkArt #TraditionalArt #LineWork #AbstractSurrealism

A traditional black and white ink drawing in a sketchbook. The image shows a dense, monolithic, abstract shape that resembles petrified wood or decaying muscle, filled with heavy cross-hatching and deep black voids. The massive, heavy form tapers down to balance precariously on tiny, root-like tendrils connected to a thin, horizontal ground line.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sir Richard Bishop at St Pancras Old Church, London.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Arianne Churchman & Benedict Drew St Pancras Old Church, London.

Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Chance to listen again to last night’s episode of Outertones on Mixcloud @campradio.bsky.social Playlist ft. Catherine Christer Hennix, Niblock, Hennies and more! www.mixcloud.com/camp_fr/oute...

Outertones / 20th August 2026 by CAMP

Monthly programme featuring a broad mix of different genres with tracks focusing on a particular sonic effect. From "drone", "rumble", "resonance" to "immersion" || www.peterbarnard.net || https://ins...

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Peter Barnard @peterbarnard.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A heavy clash between line work and negative space. ⬛️🕸️ #MastoArt #InkDrawing #MacabreArt #LineWork #AutomaticDrawing

A dense, traditional black and white ink drawing filling a sketchbook page. The left side features tightly packed, claustrophobic organic textures, jagged teeth, and a central, stark white veiny eyeball. The right side opens abruptly into a bleak, desolate landscape with a heavy, dripping black shape hanging in the sky.