"In that place, the air was very different"

The sound installation creates imaginary places from field recordings I have compiled over several years. For each instantiation, I make new recordings from the environs as a personal response to place. As these are added to the available sound pool, the piece accumulates its own sonic “memory”.

The artists of Echo Echo Dance Theatre responded with a generous intervention.

Division by Zero {shadow}

My track “Division by Zero {shadow}” has been released on From Here to Tranquility - Volume 7, a massive compilation from Silent Records, including almost three hours of music from 24 different artists.

A Brief History of Field Recording

Paper presented at ISSTA 2016 in Derry-Londonderry, Northern Ireland.

This paper describes early field recording practice in order to demonstrate the varying imperatives – aesthetic, documentary, commercial, educational – that drove its development. The works of Karl Reich, Ludwig Koch, and Albert Brand will be auditioned and contextualised.