Selected Exhibitions and Performances

2024

Touch Rave, Tate Modern Tanks – participatory installation

Folk ’77 with Dan Scott and YKLU, Margate Arts Club, Margate – live performance

Above and Beyond (with Tom Adams), Margate Station, Margate – musician and sound production

2023

Escape Room, ARK, Margate – live performance

Make Rhythm, Tate Modern, London – sound consultant

Headphone Story, Margate – musician and sound recordist

Sound-grottos and Echo-shells: On the digital minutiae of headphone theatre, CAS, Munich – presentation

A City of Dreams, various venues – Performance

2022

Cliftonville Voices, ARC Cultural Centre, Margate – Sound design for archival exhibition

Where Words Fail (with Cathy Lucas), Margate School, Margate – co-devised sound performance

Where Words Fail (with Cathy Lucas), Cafe Oto, London – co-devised sound performance

Panegyric, for Arts and Heritage, Naseby, Northhamptonshire – lead artist for site-specific audio-visual work

George, Camden People’s Theatre, London – songwriter, performer and sound engineer

2021

You Are A Seed, Tate Modern, London – lead artist for binaural headphone performance

When I Was Small, Pallant House Chichester – lead artist for headphone work exploring the gallery space

Pallant Reverie, Pallant House, Chichester – lead artist for headphone work exploring the gallery space

2020

Art Rebels, Turner Contemporary, Margate – lead artist for film work exploring sound and listening

A Space Made By Listening, We Are All Bats, Online – leader for series of online listening workshops

Sonic Trail for England’s Creative Coast, Turner Contemporary, Margate – lead sound artist for series of audio walks around Margate

2019

boat-house-theatre, (with Tom Adams), ARC Stockon, Stockton-on-Tees – lead artist for mixed-media music and performance project.

Crathelstan Sound Studio (residency project), CRATE, Margate – lead artist for collaborative residency project.

Place, Space, Who, (with Barbara Walker), Turner Contemporary, Margate – sound designer for headphone work.

2018

Conference (after attar) by Caroline Bergvall, (composition and live mixing), Whitstable Biennale, Kent – sound recordist and designer for ambisonic sound performance

Return of the Unknown, (sound design), Dover Marine Station, Canterbury, Kent – sound designer for large-scale promenade performance.

Hannah and Hanna in Dreamland, (sound design), Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury, Kent – sound designer for touring show.

This Is Our Garden In The Morning, Tate Britain, London – lead artist for headphone audio walk.

Sound and Image, Analogue Ensemble, Ramsgate, Kent – lead artist for live sound performance

Furniture Music at Flat 38 Gallery, Margate, Kent – performance

2017

Zero Hours, Venice Agendas, Folkestone Triennial, Kent – performance

Autochthon, Film for Friday, Tate St Ives, Cornwall – film screening

Speaking the Mountains, Porthmeor Studios, St Ives, Cornwall – audio installation

2016

Players, at the opening weekend of the Switch House, Tate Modern, London – headphone performance

Athelstan Sound, Electromantic, Margate, Kent – performance

Athelstan Sound, Contrapop Festival, Ramsgate, Kent – performance

Performed Improvisation, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent – performance

2015

Speak As You Find, (sound design), Magic Me, Tower Hamlets – sound design

Field Recordings Of Former South London Windmills, Soundfjord’s Listening Room at Full of Noise, Barrow-in-Furness – sound installation

Yesterday (Tingle), …a journey based on irony and suspense, curated by AMA Collective, London – film screening

clay circle, (with Trish Scott), Transacting: A Market of Values, Chelsea Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art – workshop

GNEISS, (with Richard Thomas and the Bohman Brothers), T-Bar, Finsbury Park, London – live performance

Liberation Through Hearing, Royal Academy of Arts, London – installation

2014

Palace of Green Porcelain, (with Katie Schwab), Breese Little Gallery, London – installation

Adrift, (with Olivia Kissper), Tate Britain, London – headphone installation

We Know What We Like and We Like What We Know, Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, Kent – public presentation of six-month project

I’m A Good Listener/Are you A Good Listener?, Points of Listening, London College of Communication, London – workshop

Yesterday, Harewood House, Yorkshire – installation

2013

Advantageous Recordings, KARST, Plymouth, Devon – sound installation

Advantageous Recordings, Café Oto, London – live performance

Advantageous Recordings (with Veronica Restrepo), De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea – live performance

Super Mini FM, Tate Britain  – sound installation

12 Minute Reverie, (with Colin Priest), Chelsea Parade Ground, Chelsea School of Art, London – participatory performance

2012

Hidden Noise, Tate Britain, London – installation

Inaudible Archive of incredible promise, Tate Modern, London – installation

Scrib, Tate Modern, London – installation

2012

View From Above, Magic Me and TFL, sound piece for number 38 bus route, London – sound design

Teaching and Workshops

2022- 2023 Course Leader, Sound, Society and Nature, The Margate School, Margate

2022- ongoing Tutor in music production, Canterbury Christchurch University, Canterbury

2011-ongoing

Tutor, MA Scenography, lectures, workshops and tutoring, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Swiss Cottage, London.

2018

South East Future Sounds (with Matt Lewis), field recording workshop, Margate, London.

Sound and Image, Pie Factory Music, Ramsgate.

Rocks Have Ears, schools workshops, Turner Contemporary, Margate.

Visiting lecturer, University of the Creative Arts, Kent.

2017

Listening Workshop, In Dialogue, New Arts Exchange, Nottingham.

2015

Rooms with a View, sound workshops, Magic Me, Tower Hamlets, London.

Spaceship School, Tate Britain, London.

Bodies that Matter lecture, Flat Time House, London.

2013

Staring Out Of The Window (On making a living as an artist), University of Kent, Kent.

Artist lecture, University of Kent.

Visiting lecturer, London College of Communication, London.

2012

And The Winner Is…, LIFT, London International Festival of Theatre, workshops across London.

Education

2012-2018

PhD, The Listening Artist: On listening as an artistic practice beyond sound art. London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

2010

MA Sounds Arts (distinction), London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

2006

CELTA, International House, Barcelona

1997-2001

Bsc Social Anthropology (2:1), London School of Economics and Political Science, London.

Publications, Papers and Broadcast

2018

Listening in Scenography, ed. Simon Donger, Crowood Press, London.

Athelstan Sound, community and dialogic listening, Contemporary Music Review, Taylor & Francis, London.

Athelstan Sound’s Spontaneous Radio, Radio Margate, Margate, Kent.

2017

Soft Borders, (interview with Sophie Mallet), Chateau International, London.

2016

The Invisible Knapsack: A Remix (On White Male Privilege in Sound Art), sound:gender:feminism:activism, London College of Communication, London.

2015

In Search of Lost Sounds, podcast for Nature Magazine

2014

We Know What Like and We Like What We Know, published by Dan and Trish Scott

We Know What Like and We Like What We Know, BRFM, Kent

Tingle Response, Sensing Site, University of the Arts, London.

2013

Sensuous Soundscapes and Mimetic Machines, World Forum for Acoustic Ecology, University of Kent, Kent.

Artist Interview, Nutida Musik, Sweden.

Advantageous Recordings, Concerzender, Dutch National Radio, Netherlands.

Palace of Green Porcelain, Breese Little Gallery, London.

Museum of Loneliness by Chris Petit, (sound recording), released by Test Centre.

Interview on Sensing Cities, Resonance FM

On Sounds Chosen, artist interview, Jotta magazine.

2012

Radio Yesterday, (with Ed Baxter), Resonance FM, London.

Open Studio Research, Tate Early Years and Families, London.

2011

Field Recordings of Former South London Windmills, Organised Sound, Cambridge University Press.

Stone Tape Shuffle, by Iain Sinclair, (LP sound recording and editing), Test Centre.

Residencies

2018

Limbo, Margate, Kent.

2014

Binaural, Nodar, Portugal.

2012

Binaural, Nodar, Portugal.

2009

Herhusid, Siglufjordur, Iceland.

2008

Obras, Alentejo, Portugal.

2007

Sproutbau, Bremen, Germany.

Awards

2018

Teesside Rediscovered commission for boat-house-theatre.

2016

Arts Council Award for Soft Borders.

2016

PhD AHRC award.

2015

2015 New Voices, Sound and Music.

Curatorial

2015-

Athelstan Sound, Ongoing, sound and listening workshops, Margate, Kent.

2018

From the ground up: book talk, Resort Studios, Margate

2017

How Does This Country Work, LARP, Resort Studios, Margate.

2017

Trickle Down, (with Discovery Planet), Resort Studios, Margate

2017

Margate Memories (with Jemma Channing), Resort Studios, Margate

2016

Kim’s Video Margate, Resort Studios, Margate.

2016

Sounds for Living, Cliftonville, Kent.

2016

Sheepscapes, Battersea Arts Centre, London.

2014

We Know What We Like and We Like What We Know (with Trish Scott), Swale, Kent.

2013

Sonic Trails, Tate Early Years and Families, Tate, London.

2012

Sound and Performance, (with Louisa Martin, Neil Luck and Tate Early Years and Families), Tanks, Tate Modern, London.

Employment

2010-

Freelance artist and educator

2010-

Freelance AV Technician, Tate Galleries, London.

2021-

Freelance AV Technician, Turner Contemporary, Margarte

2006-2009

TEFL Teacher, Community Institute, Barcelona.

2004 – 2006

Secondary school teacher, Charter School, London.

2002-2004

Music Consultant, Ded Good Music, Denmark Street, London.

1996-1998

Musician and songwriter, Narco, signed to EMI publishing in 1997.