The multifaceted nature of Sockethead’s work, the project by artist Richard Harris, is due to two main reasons. First, his interdisciplinary conception of artistic creation, which accumulates gestures, materials and practices from painting, music and poetry. Secondly, the development of its programmatic character, that is, the construction of a set of compositions which, in the manner of an archive, records the experiences not only of the artist himself but also of the incomplete project of modernist Manchester. An example of the twilight of popular modernism, his entire oeuvre is an immense collage marked by liminality, urgency and abandonment, and it is astonishing to observe his overwhelming amalgam of references, media, sources and genres, impossible to list here: obsolete equipment; software instruments; field recordings; avant-garde brushstrokes; fragments taken from the internet, radio or television; speeches and poems; electronic experimentation; rave ghosts; psychedelia and folk; post-punk; soul, funk and R&B; screwed rap; Detroit techno, electro et al.

A member of Return To Zero along with FUMU and Turinn, Sockethead collaborates with Michael J. Blood and Rat Heart, like-minded artists from his immediate environment. In 2023 he released his latest cassette, Drenched Worlds Falls Apart, on his label of choice, YOUTH.

> boomkat.com/sockethead

> theyouthlabel.bandcamp

> instagram.com/socketheadxl