Printed Matter

Founded in 1980 Problemist was an assortment of musicians, centered around William Davenport. Problemist released a number of recordings throughout the 80's and appears on many compilations. They performed enigmatic live performances throughout the 80's, chronicled on Problemist Live (Cause and Effect,1987). Other essential band members were Chris Rankin, David Lawrenece, Mario Bajandas and Adrian Gormley. William stopped producing music in 1990. He has returned to reissue & distribute unreleased recordings by Problemist and create new music for an unsuspecting new generation of music aficionados. This book explores Davenport's work as Problemist, which is/was his musical moniker. The book represents remnants, memories and artifacts from the 80’s through to the present. He was introduced to electronic music and punk in the 70’s and continue to do music to this day.

This book is dedicated to all the artists, filmmakers and musicians who toil for years with little reward, but continue to create; making works that stand away from the main stream dribble that we are fed each day. The interviews that I did for my documentary films follow up my work from the 80’s with Unsound magazine. I traveled across the United States and interviewed mainly musicians who were in the magazine, and involved in the experimental music, tape, noise, industrial music scenes. This book is an artifact of those interviews with pics from the films. In the films the interviews were intercut with live performance footage and other images, for the sake of the printed media I have taken the interviews and made them flow together, like a stream of consciousness where the artist discusses their history and beliefs. Unsound magazine was published from 1983-1987, it was founded by myself and Christopher Rankin, with assistance from Tamara F. In 2014 I started filming interviews with musicians and others who were involved in the scene where the magazine originated from and I created six films. From 2014 to 2018 I shot and edited the films: The New Punks, The Great American Cassette Masters, Ziners, The People’s Music, Hunting Lodge: The Story of Two Nomad Souls, Media about Media about Media: The Negativland Story.

The images in this book are from Unsound magazine, which was Published from 1983-1987. Based in San Francisco, the magazine covered cutting edge music, noise, experimental, culture, politics and media.

Reissue of the original magazine, Youth, Remko Saha, Adrian Sherwood, Zoogz Rift, SPK, Hunting Lodge, etc.

Reissue of the original magazine, Youth, Remko Saha, Adrian Sherwood, Zoogz Rift, SPK, Hunting Lodge, etc. 

Reissue of the original magazine, Test Department, Whitehouse, Nova, Psychic TV. Coil, Swans, John Gullak. Etc..