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The Oken Stone Podcast
by Oceanallover - Alexander Rigg
The Interdisciplinary work of Tracy Alexander Rigg and his collaborations with other Artists. theokenstone.substack.com
Episodes
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Cicardini
Cicardini An aeroplane moves across theground at five hundred miles inevery hour, chasing its threedimensional doppel that stealsthe sun, castingit in shaded form flowingover bleached stubble-fields,crossing roads lumpening overforest canopies, an umbra filledwith the shadow bodies of…
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The Scales of the World
Prelude Cracking To the north it was dark; the skyhanging around mountains - a mantle of water.White curtains of lace pulled closed by cyclonic air over brilliant illuminated fragments -copse, river limb, field. Rooks in chaos choreographise the swirls of westerlies that rush forwards,pressing…
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Recounting
I had the pleasure recently to present some work as part of an exhibition with Rec[ount] in Barcelona. This is a really interesting project looking at how numbers, numbering and accountability influences our lives. Here is a quote from their web-site and a link to read more: “We are a small group...
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Live at Knockengorroch Festival 2026
This is a live recording made by the very wonderful Alasdair who creates such a magic sound in The Longhouse. It brings you the whole thing, warts and all. Although you will have to use your imagination to see the warts. Thanks also to Nick Jenkins and Katch Holmes for inviting us to be part of…
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March Winds
Writing during the drifting of our planet in its relationship to the sun; moving through the equinox from winter into spring. A homage to the land journeys of amphibians everywhere. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes…
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February 2026
Written and recorded on Valentine's day, 2026 This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theokenstone.substack.com/subscribe
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Brother Mother
Brother Mother - Five poems for Yule Tide This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit theokenstone.substack.com/subscribe
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Carcere (Prison)
I went to Napoli recently to continue working on a collaboration with Iranian photographer Xeder. We began our project in Edinburgh in 2024 and have since passed through St Veran in the south of France arriving on Ischia and then Vomero in Naples. Our sessions in Italy were strongly coloured by...
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Poems During The Fall Of Leaves
This is a small collection of poems written over the last few weeks. Mostly they were written at about midnight from my room upstairs, facing East and listening to the sounds outside. The mood is an odd mixture of optimism, doubt and acceptance peculiar to that stage in my day, and this stage of…
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Ferry
Fat rainbow sitting above a yawl, ghost of a herring silver beneath infra and ultra angular stacks and cliffs of Caithness the sun turns corners on calm days, rides over the tops when North and East are big in the sky; stone chat, grey wagtail corvids cloaked patrol the edges where thrift and...
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Menuett
Saint Veraud My House The window, cracked admits sounds of the out, of night. Rain accumulating through grass and soil, running down into the cut of the burn. An aeroplane sings in darkness, thirty thousand steps upwards into the sky, five hundred miles each hour. The fox of last week has stopped...
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Keeping Time
These poems were written in response to some dreams that all happened in the same week. Some of the dreams were waking dreams or reveries experienced in odd circumstances, some were compelling enough to wake me up at night. I love having dreams, it seems to me that the unconscious state is such a...
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Hibernation
Hibernation I crawled under the shed amongst dust and stones why I was there is not important belly to the ground, back to timber joists next to my head a nest badly made of hay and leaves dragged there during a frozen time there too within its bed a sleeping badger sleeping for so long through…
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Two Halves
A few recent poems discussing the two halves of an argument, perspectives, and landscape. The soundtrack is also a collection of moments seen from the present moment back across the space of thirty three years and includes people and places of great significance to me. Musical Credits for...
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Doppler Gang
Doppler Gang Thought it was you but no, it was just your hair on another woman’s head she said I heard you split so sorry but I wear her hide with pride. Thought I was paranoid until you stopped watching me and now my daily motions pass into obscurity, my thoughts stranded on the beach of my own...
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Albatrossicals
A peedie poem about a muckle bird. Albatrossicals By full moon on the first of November a great bird preened its wings hunting far out on the oceans by night and by day wandering. She cries salted tears for her lover lost in equatorial zones across the Northernmost waters and so far, so very far...
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Monument Road
Some thoughts on the most peculiar relationship that the fast moving modern town has to its situation. Executive versus historical. Nature versus Cafe Latte. Rocks versus paper and scissors. Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be...
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Loch Ryan
Some musings from the Irish Sea on the way from Galloway to Galway. Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be shared. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...
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The Life Lived
This is a further exploration of transience..... of passing to and fro...of lives begun, lived and ended. It is also a celebration of all life. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Life Lived The Life Lived brought us both here, yours and mine, you and me. Genetic lines - I am your impurity your blood...
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Becoming Other
A few thoughts about the process of change, the fragile nature of human relationships and the value of learning how to be yourself. Becoming Other When the hysterical becomes historical, I’ll see you there - Don’t mean to be funny but, you crack me up like crazy paving. When daily becomes…
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The Scales of the World
The Scales Of The World is an allegorical story following the life of a tree and a man as they are both cut down. The story is presented in several short sections, each of which takes both branch and man on a transformative journey from riverbank through to a flooded world. Each section is...
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Reality Is Gone
These are a few poems written over the past couple of weeks. I'm not sure if they are about anything, except perhaps my reaction to the passage of thoughts and emotions within myself and a reaction to the places in which I find myself. The duality of internal and external worlds seems very…
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Heart Murmur
Awoke to a head full of histories. The birds here are going doolally for new blossoms in the trees around the house, feeding chicks, drinking heavily on nectar, facing the day as it arrives. Thought that I should try and do the same. Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act…
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Otaihanga
This is a short poem written looking across at Kapiti Island north of Wellington in New Zealand. Heavily influenced by jet-lag and what has been a very curious year for me. Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be shared. This is a...
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Kroovan Wings - a tall tale.
This is a studio recording of the story and music from my 2024 project Kroovan Wings. This recording will be released as an album for streaming on the 6th of December 2024 and is available now on Bandcamp: https://oceanallover.bandcamp.com/ If you want to support our project so that it can be...
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Body Memory Mapping
Body Memory Mapping During this period in our lives of altered behaviours and patterns many of us will change the way we are living, even if the changes are momentary. These changes may be large or small, physical or psychological. The changes will be recorded by our memories and by our bodies.…
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Monster
This is a poem from 2002. It was a very colurful year amongst many such years. Hindsight - does that mean looking at the deer's tail? The monster in question here is my libido I supose, or the hidden clockwork mechanism that drives one. Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an…
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Kroovan Wings
Kroovan Wings is a homage to trees. In Gaelic craobh (pronounced kroov) means 'tree'. It is a celebration of two magnificent trees, an Ash and a Sycamore, that stand at the gateway to the Galloway Forest Park and at a meeting point on the Southern Upland Way below Culmark Hill. Both trees produce...
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Skin Piel
This is a new piece of work that I am developing with Nomoss, a dance and music collaboration based in Edinburgh. In this instance the sound is some reworked recordings that I made whilst on holiday in East Wittering some while back. The text was originally written for presentation in The Arches…
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A Derelict Building
This is a short story about getting lost in the dark. Part of the problem is that you can only get lost if you knew where you were in the first place, and the problem with darkness is knowing whether or not you have your eyes open. This story may be metaphorical, in which case it is an abstract...
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Eagle
However, a shadow moved swiftly, thrown down onto the land by a majestic golden eagle, last of its kind on the mountain. Even as the beak of the tortoise closed upon the exquisite blooms, the eagle stooped........ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...
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Man
.....and even as the eagle soared above the rocky slopes, the tortoise encaged in its talons, the petals encaged in the jaws of the reptile, so a young naturalist ran forwards - last of his kind, taxidermy on his mind.............. The stricken eagle fell amongst a drift of feathers and petals,...
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Tortoise
On the lower slopes a tortoise had begun its ascent. Armoured carapace, last of its kind. Hungry and smelling petals on the air...... Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be shared. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...
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Flower
Upon the Mountainside there is a flower, a most beautiful flower, last of its kind. It is opening its petals to the sky, an invitation and a celebration.......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Go to: https://oceanallover.bandcamp.com/album/orographic and listen to the whole album. Support the show...
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Side
You continue to ascend, becoming less and less of yourself and more and more mountainous............ Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be shared. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get...
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Out
In which you discover a door in your own foot, and enter through it. Out I’ll take a story from you, hillside; I’ll make something from you, something deep like a door in your foot, a way in. There will be singing, voices raised and the gravity of mysteries that erupt as small flowers around your...
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Way
You begin to climb the mountain. Perspectives slide. You find a door.......... Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be shared. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus...
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In
In which the mountain appears before you in many guises. All is what it seems it is not. You are lost until................... Support the show Thanks very much for listening. Art is an act of generosity and as such is made to be shared. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this…
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The Oken Stone
This is an introduction to the Oken Stone Podcast, what the name means and what to expect from future episodes. I am an artist making work in a number of different disciplines, with philosophy firmly at the core of them all. Through this podcast I will share thoughts and ideas, some of them…
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Orographic
This is a short introduction to a series of episodes that bring you a story about mountains. Companion (On the Way) On your mountain there are trails with little indication of where they may lead, and even less of who made them. The thorns and open meadows at your feet lead the walker’s eye but...
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Orographic - Prelude
Here you are met by your guide. They will lead you on your journey into the mountain. You must trust them, they must trust you. Hold hands and go with them......... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sound on this track was made by me using recordings taken in the fields, ponds and hills around where I live.…
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The Cosmopolitan
This is a short poem that I wrote whilst building a large fire-sculpture for the Wintertide Festival in Hertlepool in November 2023. We were staying in an Inn of the same name on the Headlands near to the sight of the gun battery and the location of a temporary lighthouse that stood on the moors...
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The Interdisciplinary work of Tracy Alexander Rigg and his collaborations with other Artists.
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