Powerlines (Loavgavvári) is a 55 minute composition in which a series of sound devices were deployed on the slopes below Loavgavvári / Fløya near the city of Romssa / Tromsø some 350 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle to generate field recordings that are left largely unprocessed (apart occasional EQ and layering one recording over…… Continue reading “Powerlines”
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“Waves Finding the Shore (Tokashiku)”
Very pleased to have a new work in the Listening for Traces exhibition at Rizq Art Initiative (RAi) in Abu Dhabi. The show was curated by Cathy Lane and I’m in the company of some extraordinary artists showing works resonating with sound, conflict, memory: Abdullah Al Othman (KSA), Asma Ghanem (Palestine), Alexia Webster (South Africa), Christopher Marianetti…… Continue reading “Waves Finding the Shore (Tokashiku)”
“How To Put on Weight”
I was very pleased to have been commissioned by Galerie Silvestre in Madrid to write a essay for Rebecca Glover’s The Foley Studio. Glover’s show ran from February 2nd to March 27th, 2024 and, as its title suggests, the beautifully composed installation of objects, sounds and diagrams explores the practice of foley within wider contexts. My essay…… Continue reading “How To Put on Weight”
“Fire Spell Against Hate”
In 2024, “The Smell of Apples” was republished alongside “Fire Spell Against Hate” (another text sampled from many different English Ovid translations) in (C)ovid’s Metamorphoses, a project directed by Bernd Herzogenrath and Lasse-Marc Riek and released in a sumptuous edition with a quite extraordinary list of contributors. A small selection of the artists involved in the text and sound sections…… Continue reading “Fire Spell Against Hate”
Q&A at Atelier Nord
An enjoyable time at Oslo’s Atelier Nord for an in-conversation with Alexander Rishaug on December 4.
Non Mountain
Non Mountain is a collaboration with Chrystal Cherniwchan and Craig Tattersall where the two tracks on a 10″ vinyl and the 84 pages of a book explore mappings of real and imaginary journeys to high places in text, sound and photographic images – and the ways all these can come together and fall apart. A…… Continue reading Non Mountain
Radiophrenia
Really pleased that Simon James’ and my hour-long composition “Flux and Phantoms,” part of our South of Shoreham Shore project was broadcast during the Radiophrenia Festival on August 26 at 1600. One part of our work was transmitted on FM in Glasgow area, DAB where Resonance Extra is available and online elsewhere, with another dimension…… Continue reading Radiophrenia
“A Dog” review
A great essay in the Glasgow Review of Books about “A Dog at the Edge of Things,” the review makes connections that I had always really wanted someone to notice after all these years plying the 100-word trade (!) but also suggests other completely unanticipated associations that both surprise and delight. What Berridge says about…… Continue reading “A Dog” review
Pot Luck
Simon James and I were invited to Blast Theory in Shoreham to talk about our South of Shoreham Shore project. We each chose three images to provide snapshots of past, present and future activities and following Simon’s lead, I went way back – to 2002 where I DJ’d for 25 hours as we traveled in…… Continue reading Pot Luck
Ghost Listeners
A talk for the Aural Diversities programme at Goldsmiths. “Declassified World War Two documents in the National Archives use terminology such as ‘Camouflage ‘B’,’ ‘Aural Deception,’ ‘Sonic Deception,’ ‘Sonic Warfare’ and ‘Soniferous Deception’ to describe strategies intended to deceive enemy ears; contrasting historical systems were deployed to amplify and augment battlefield listening. Such processes of aural…… Continue reading Ghost Listeners