Sound

These are works that are sound-led, or listening-led. Differentiating this mode from pedagogical and musical work denotes an approach beyond the particular histories and strategies of music or education.

Pangeygric: Film

Panegyric Panegyric was a project that ran between Spring 2021 and Spring 2022. It was developed for Arts and Heritage’s Meeting Point programme, an initiative that sought to mediate between heritage…
Touch Rave at Tate Modern

Touch Rave is a participatory installation space where human touch and interaction create a musical composition. The elements of the music are taken from rave music of the 90s, and…
Performance at Central St Martins with YKLU

This performance of The Museum of Future Sound was part of Nick Mortimer’s presentation at Sound Systems, a live event organised by CSM’s Speculative Design MA course. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GKU4nk-M5Tc4DVaG0UuHIFgblSbWQwRE/view?usp=sharing
Sound-grottos and Echo-shells: On the digital minutiae of headphone theatre.

Sound-Grottos and Echo-Shells is a presentation I made recently at Theatre Sound (as) Collaboration. Distributed Creations, Shared Agencies, in Munich on 13-15 September 2023. Listen to on headphones for the full…
Dan and YKLU: Museum of Future Sound

I’ve been performing with YKLU aka Nick Mortimer combining spoken word, singing, percussion and live modular synthesis. Our first performance was a reading/deconstruction of a long poem I wrote over…
Cliftonville Voices

I created a multichannel sound installation for the Cliftonville Voices project in Margate. Cliftonville Voices is an oral history project and exhibition which documents how Cliftonville has changed over the…
When I Was Small

This headphone piece was made for Pallant House’s Model Art Gallery and allows listeners to enter the MAG and experience the artworks as landscapes or dream-spaces from the perspective of…
Where Words Fail (with Cathy Lucas)

Where Words Fail is a performance lecture exploring Cathy’s PhD research into C19th sound instruments, both scientific and musical. The piece specifically engages with Alexander Graham Bell’s “speaking harp”, a…
Panegyric (with Tom Adams)

Panegyric is an audio-visual performance work exploring fissures and commonalities within notions of Englishness using the site of the Battle of Naseby as a focus. For the project myself and…
PhD: The Listening Artist

My PhD explored listening as an artistic practice, specifically through my own socially-engaged sound art work.
Athelstan Sound

Athelstan Sound is a sound and listening workshop I convene in Margate. We have been meeting since 2015 and have hosted a number of musicians and artists who use the…
Art Rebels at Turner Contemporary

During lockdown I made this film with my son Samuel. It’s a series of invitations to listen in different ways, and draws on Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations as well as…
Hamletmachine at the Bloomsbury Festival

I performed a live sound design for a participatory version of Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller, convened by Gareth Watkins and students from RADA and commissioned by the Bloomsbury Festival in…
Conference (After Attar) By Caroline Bergvald

Caroline Bergvald’s Conference (After Attar) was a multi-channel performance for Whitstable Biennale and is part of Bergvald’s Sonic Atlas series. I devised the live performance sound design, recording a dawn…
The Return of the Unknown

I was the sound designer for this epic Marlowe Theatre production that explored the arrival of the Unknown Soldier to Dover in 1918. We repurposed the Dover Marine station for…
This Is Our Garden In The Morning

This Is Our Garden In The Morning is a headphone walk through Tate Britain made for the Sonic Trails project at Tate Early Years and Families. The piece leads audience…
The Invisible Knapsack: Sound Art Version

This booklet was produced for Sound:Gender:Feminism:Activism 2016 held at the London College of Communication. I read the text during the conference. Further details can be found here: SOUND::GENDER::FEMINISM::ACTIVISM 2016
Sonic Trails for Tate Learning

I have made a lot of work for headphones. Sometimes as a compromise due to multiple sound works having to coexist in the same space, but often as a creative…
In Search of Lost Sounds: Nature Magazine Podcast

I was featured in this podcast for Nature magazine discussing Richard Woodbridge’s work on adventitious recording: https://www.everand.com/listen/podcast/418602432
Yesterday

Yesterday was commissioned by Harewood House in Yorkshire as a response to an exhibition of Sevres porcelain. The curator, Nicola Stephenson, wrote this text for the work: Yesterday is an…
Gneiss, New Voices, Bohmans and Richard Thomas

I was awarded a Sound and Music New Voices award in 2015 and as part of the project I worked with the Bohman Brothers and Richard Thomas, alongside Artur Vidal…
Liberation Through Hearing

Call 01642 056912 to hear Liberation Through Hearing. Liberation Through Hearing is a site-specific installation commissioned by Measure for a phonebox outside the Royal Academy of Art. The phonebox was…
Live at De La Warr Pavillion

Documentation of a live performance at De La Warr Pavillion, featuring potter Veronica Restropo. The piece explored Richard Woodbridge’s theory of advantageous/adventitious recordings.
Adrift (with Olivia Kissper)

Adrift is a headphone work created for Phyllda Barlow’s docks installation at Tate Britain and commissioned by Tate Early Years and Families. I worked with ASMR filmmaker Olivia Kissper to…
Our Father

Our Father was an installation work made with my partner Trish Scott, and her father Fr. Rodney Schofield. We followewd Rodney around rural Portugal as he met other church members…
Mimetic Machines and the Sensuous Soundscape

I presented this paper at the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology conference at the University of Kent in 2013. The text explores mimesis in the context of field recording and…
Advantageous/Adventitous Recordings: A radio work

This radio programme was produced for Concertzender. It explore my work and research into the theories of Richard Woodbridge III, who proposed that sound could be accidently recorded onto pots…
The Palace of Green Porcelain

The Palace of Green Porcelain was an exhibition with myself and artist and ceramicist Katie Scwab, and curated by Rebecca Lewin. The show explored ceramics and sound and was held…
On the Sonority of Clay

On the Sonority of Clay was a residency project made at Soundfjord Gallery in London during 2013. The project resulted in a series of works exploring sonic histories via clay…
Covas do Rio Cover Version writing

During my residency at Obras during 2011 I wrote a collection poems as a way to explore the space of the Covas and to poke the notion of listening to…
Covas do Rio Cover Version

Cova Do Rio Cover Version was made during a residency at Binaural Nodar, a sound arts organisation based in rural Portugal. After making a series of real-life field recordings of…
Stone Tape Shuffle by Iain Sinclair

Stone Tape Shuffle by Iain Sinclair I recorded Iain reading excerpts from his work around East London and then edited the selections into a sound composition for vinyl release. The…
Sounds of the Laeitani

Sounds of the Laeitani is a vinyl record of field recordings made of a fictional culture called the Laeitani. In actual fact, the album is constructed from field recordings of…
Sound and Performance in the Tanks

With artists Louise Martin, Neil Luck and I co-convened this event in the Tanks at Tate. I also contributed three works that invited audiences to explore the space through imaginative…
Field Recordings of Former South London Windmills

Field Recordings of former South London Windmills is an installation and vinyl LP made up of field recordings made at the sites of former windmills across South London. The piece…
Sproutbaurecord

http://sproutbaurecord.blogspot.com/ Sproutbaurecord was a month-long project documenting the emergence of a community of artists in housing block in Bremen, Germany. Everyday my partner and I recorded the sounds of the…
Herring Quest

Herring Quest was a project made during a residency at Herhusid in Siglufjordur, Iceland. It was made in collaboration with Trish Scott. Our project explored the herring fishing industry in…
Pair Work

Documentation of a residency project with Trish Scott at MOKS in Estonia: https://pairworkproject.wordpress.com/