Over the last 10 months, I’ve been involved in a musical project called Tongue which consists of two trombones, a singer and electronics. We recently had the pleasure of being asked to collaborate with the choir Musarc for a performance as part of Festival Do… Read more
On 12 April I conducted the 33rd Points of Listening workshop at Shoreditch Church. The blurb for the Workshop series reads: * Points of Listening (PoL) is co-convened by Salomé Voegelin and Mark Peter Wright in association with CRiSAP University of the Arts, London. PoL is a monthly… Read more
The other week I had the pleasure of taking part in a two day workshop with renowned field-recordist Chris Watson. Chris has spent the last decades capturing sounds from the farthest-flung reaches of the planet. The workshop was intended to capture the ‘hidden sounds of Bradford’-… Read more
Modes of Resonance is the first installation that I created for my PhD project. It was installed in the Clothworkers Centenary Concert hall for the sound;space;play symposium at the University of Leeds in May 2015. The installation explores resonant modes across the human range of… Read more
A couple of weeks ago (Wednesday 15 March), I took part in another listening devices lates session with Tevor Cox, this time at the Manchester Museum of Science and Industry. In this post are recordings of people’s responses on the evening. For more information about… Read more
Last week I was on tour with g·bop orchestra, led by the excellent composer and percussionist Greta Eacott. g·bop orchestra is a project very close to my hear, and something that I have been involved in since 2013. The line-up of the ensemble is amorpus and ever-changing.… Read more
I recently had the pleasure of being involved in a performative talk led by Adrian Rifkin at Central Saint Martins. Adrian Rifkin, a senior writer and art critic, has been working with Nina Wakeford to develop a style of ‘improper’ presenting. He no longer talks about or directly… Read more
Lara Karady and I were invited by acoustician Trevor Cox to exhibit our listening devices at the latest Tate Lates at the Tate Modern. The Tate Lates evening consisted of a series of stands and workshops, which were all tangentially linked to the new… Read more
I want to recall the questions that I asked at the beginning of my last post: Are we more ‘in the world’ or ‘in space’ when we are in resonance? Does space become a different entity when we experience it in this way? More generally,… Read more
I am interested in the ways that we can experience space through resonance. Are we more ‘in the world’ or ‘in space’ when we are in resonance? Does space become a different entity when we experience it in this way? More generally, does space become… Read more
I recently finished a collaboration with the Textile artist Sarah-Joy Ford, which went into the Stanley and Audrey Burton Galley at the University of Leeds on 1 November. It will be in the gallery until spring 2017. The project was funded by Arts Council… Read more
I have recently been working with the architect Lara Karady, designing and building wearable listening devices that explore our connection to listening, and the way in which we experience our spatial environment through sound. In this blog post I talk about the workshops that we gave to… Read more
I have recently been working with the architect Lara Karady, with a view to creating a piece of architecture which engages people with sound. We were given the opportunity to hold a series of sound-related workshops with KS2 and KS3 children and adults at the… Read more
I have started a collaboration with architect Lara Karady, with the aim of creating some human-scale public architecture that engages people with sound: this provides a novel opportunity to take a spatial approach to sound rather than a sonic approach to space. This blog post… Read more
I’m currently working on a number of installations which use rhythmic reflection to engage listeners with space. There are some images below. I’ll post on each piece when they are finished.
In December, I had the pleasure of being involved in a performance of Piano Phase by Steve Reich, on Nintendo Game Boys as part of the Musarc Christmas concert as St George’s church, Bloomsbury. The performance was featured alongside interventions and performances by Neil Luck, Claudia Molitor and Uriel… Read more
Last May, as part of the Sound; Space; Play symposium which I organised with my PhD supervisor Scott McLaughlin, we were lucky enough to have Peter Ablinger create a version of his series Orte or ‘Places’, especially for the University of Leeds campus. The full description… Read more