Methods of Hypnosis

A woman is wrapped in a blanket by four strangers. Couples with broken arms partner on a dance floor. An unconscious young man is disengaged from a steering wheel. “Methods of Hypnosis” reveals strange choreographies hidden in public domain footage.

Bastion

“Bastion” is a series of electroacoustic compositions made from field recordings processed into extreme timbres. These were created for the “Wall” installation at Sonic Arts Waterford 2014, in partnership with Waterford Festival of Architecture.

Sounding Place: Towards a Practice of Field Recoding

Paper given at Invisible Places - Sounding Cities, the symposium of the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology, in Viseu, Portugal.

This paper applies conceptions of “place” derived from the disciplines of human geography, ethnomusicology, and phenomenology to the practice of field recording. Place is a product of an ongoing reflexive and discursive process by which we encode meaning in the milieu.