“The spaces where these two elements align is truly the frequency of magic. It was also the approach guiding the novel’s narrative form, in which everything occurs simultaneously. He said the improvisational but naturally accurate elements of the music, which moves from ambient textures to free jazz, echo both the free-spirited and surrealist modes through which he wrote and edited the text. For five days, we improvised and spontaneously created soundscapes and grooves which I read over. Joseph said, “In the summer of 2021, I went into Love Electric Studios in London with my regular band – musicians I’ve worked with for over a decade. Another cleans her teeth with the nail of her finger, abandoned from another scene or chapter. The author has recorded the entire novel in 100 audio chapters, accompanied by his band, bringing this inventive text alive for the ear.” Bocas said, “The Frequency of Magic is simultaneously a portrait of Trinidad and a portrait of creative obsession, shot through with musical rhythms and cadences. The project was funded by Arts Council England and features vocals by the author, whose latest book, Sonnets for Albert, has been shortlisted for both the Forward Prize and the TS Eliot Prize, the two most prestigious British awards for poetry. The audio series is the latest collaboration between Speaking Volumes – a London-based live literature organisation specialising in getting underrepresented voices heard, reaching diverse audiences, and finding exciting ways to present the work of writers – and the NGC Bocas Lit Fest.īocas, in a release, praised the production as innovative and ambitious. The production brings his novel The Frequency of Magic to life online through musical performance, with a series of 100 daily podcast episodes which premiered on October 25. His work is featured in a new online project produced by UK literary organisation Renaissance One, Speaking Volumes, and hosted by the NGC Bocas Lit Fest. The audio series began airing on October 25 with episodes available via Considered one of the leading Caribbean writers of his generation, Anthony Joseph, a Trinidad and Tobago-born author based in the UK, is equally celebrated for his poetry and music as for his fiction. The Frequency of Magic is published by Peepal Tree Press - buy it here.Marshelle Haseley ( Newsday) writes about Trinidad and Tobago-born writer Anthony Joseph and the new collaborative project, an audio series sponsored by NGC Bocas Lit Fest and UK literary organization Renaissance One, featuring his book The Frequency of Magic. Starting on 25 October, 2022, each day we’ll release a new audio chapter of the novel, culminating one hundred days later - a gift for readers and listeners, taking you through the end of the year. Speaking Volumes and the Bocas Lit Fest are proud to present The Frequency of Magic: an audio version in 100 chapters, read by Anthony Joseph with musical accompaniment by Denys Baptiste, Andrew John, Thibaut Remy, Colin Webster, Jason Yarde, and Rod Youngs. Now the author has recorded the entire novel in one hundred audio chapters accompanied by his band, bringing this inventive text alive for the ear. Innovative, ambitious, both poetic and gritty, Anthony Joseph’s novel The Frequency of Magic is simultaneously a portrait of Trinidad and a portrait of creative obsession, shot through with musical rhythms and cadences. But somehow, miraculously, the novel, as Raphael has planned it in one hundred chapters of a thousand words, seems to write itself… He is also a would-be author, but there have been so many distractions to the novel he has been writing for forty-one years that many of the characters have lost patience and gone off to do their own thing. Raphael earns his living as a butcher in a hillside village in rural Trinidad. By turns dark, fantastical, funny, hard, poignant and transformational, this novel’s magic and spirit propel it towards becoming a literary classic.” - Nicole Rachelle-Moore “To read The Frequency of Magic is to enter several simultaneous worlds. Magical language, uplifting and down-digging meaning through a choir of image and voice. “In The Frequency of Magic Anthony Joseph presents a world rarely if ever explored for British readers. Here Anthony Joseph manages to push at the the outer edges of the novel form while holding the centre with the most intricate and significant of detail.” - Roger Robinson “If Mikhail Bulgakov and Ishmael Reed had a godson in Trinidad raised on Rapso and John Coltrane solos, then what you’d get is The Frequency of Magic. It is clear from reading the riffing, ludic, chapters of this new volume that Joseph is able to reach that frequency often.” - Kayo Chingonyi “For Anthony Joseph, the frequency of magic is the place where creativity flourishes that perfect balance of intellect and instinct that brings something refreshing into heightened perspective.
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