I recently had the opportunity to showcase two recent pieces (Reflection / Position and Moving, Singing) at the Odrathek festival in Lambeth. The festival was curated by Musarc and featured a array of artists from across the UK and Europe. Here’s a bit more information… Read more
The Ecocycle Labyrinth was an installation of light and sound which is intended to encourage those who walk its path to reflect on its themes. It brings together the insights of the Ecocycle, used to guide organisations through periods of decline and growth, and the meditative… Read more
I was invited to give two workshops on a set of compositions as part of Kosmologym festival at the Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Arts in Copenhagen. Spatial Listening Games are compositions in which participants explore their relationship to, and understanding of, acoustic space through… Read more
My Listening Devices were selected to be part of the Science Gallery Biorhythm exhibition for its stint at the Health Museum in Houston TX. The exhibition was originally shown at Science Gallery Dublin in 2010, and has since been touring different cities around the world,… Read more
After Vespers: Architectural Sound Walk is a realisation of a series of games which aim to connect performer-participants with the architectural space that they occupy through impulses created from hand-held percussion instruments. In collaboration with a group of local artists who volunteered as percussionists, I… Read more
Spatial Drone 3 is a synthesizer and tuba improvisation which excites the fundamental resonant frequencies of a given architectural space. This is an improvisation which aims to subject a stationary audience to a range of body-listening experiences by putting the room into a range of contrasting… Read more
Spatial Drone is a synthesizer improvisation which excites the fundamental resonant frequencies of a given architectural space. This is an improvisation which aims to subject a stationary audience to a range of body-listening experiences by putting the room into a range of contrasting resonant vibratory… Read more
I recently undertook an artist residency at LEGROOM in central Manchester, from 20 to 26 November, 2017. The week-long ‘Listening to Architecture residency’ was spend developing my personal practice, and a public event program which showcased that newly developed work. The public event programme featured… Read more
Deep Sea is a solo dance performance by Tora Hed, which reflects on the relationship between the internal and the external between the present moment and memory in relation to sense and perception. Tora’s improvisation is influenced by what she senses now in this moment… Read more
Every site has its own harmonic language; resonant frequencies are acoustic phenomena whose wavelengths are directly related to a given set of spatial configurations and dimensions – a site’s breath – borne directly from shape and material construction. They energetically reinforce themselves and are perceived… Read more
I am going to be doing an artist residency at LEGROOM space in Manchester, which I am calling ‘Listening to Architecture’. The public event programme features collaborations with dancers Hannah Buckley and Tora Hed as well as musicians from the Royal Northern College of Music, and… Read more
I recently gave a workshop on a piece-in-progress, For Somebody that has Never Performed a Resonance, which takes the form of a group improvisation where people use their voices to find the resonant modes of a space. The workshop took place at Field Studies: Listening After Pauline Oliveros,… Read more
In September I was involved in the creation of a performance which was commissioned by Opera North, PRS and South Asian Arts UK to reflect on the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India. A week in residency with a group of three Indian and Western… Read more
Since we are always already listening, it is difficult to achieve a sense of perspective on how we approach the act itself. If one’s perception of sound is altered or modulated through a listening device, then upon returning to the ‘norm’ of one’s naked year,… Read more
Dźwięko Działka is a mixed arts festival in Wschowa, Poland. This year I gave a workshop as part of the festival. Here’s the description: * Spatio-Rhythmic Listening This workshop engages participants in a listening-led exploration of the architectural site of DŹWIĘKO DZIAŁKA, by conceiving of humans… Read more
Resonant Topologies: Listening-led Movement Every building has its own harmonic language; resonant frequencies are frequencies whose wavelengths directly match the size and shape of a given acoustic space. They energetically reinforce themselves and perceived as significantly louder than a non-resonant frequency. When resonant… Read more
In association with the Hepworth Wakefield, and the University of Leeds Centre for Audio Visual Exploration, I organised an afternoon and evening of performances and workshops which examine listening in the context of the spatial environment. There was an active listening workshop, featuring a set of bespoke… Read more
This is to introduce a project that I have been working on with three friends and collaborators. TONGUE is a band project, consisting of two trombones, vocals and electronics / synthesisers. We released our debut E.P. with Don’t Delay records on 1 September with an audio-visual… Read more