I am a sculptor working with
music, sound and noise. My interests lie in the relationship between
the physical and spatial attributes of sounding objects, musical
instruments and audio technologies and their acoustic properties
or timbral characteristics. I use processes of mechanisation and
automation to ensure that control of the resultant music is as contingent
upon aleatoric sonic phenomena as on my design of the system. I borrow
strategies from bricolage, process music, kinetic sculpture and the
extended technique of free improvisation. My installations employ
space as a physical and acoustic substance in order to provoke the
audience into a durational and subjective encounter with the work.
My performances employ unpredictable processes and systems to ensure
that my position in relation to the sounds is primarily as a listener.
I
am currently a Research Fellow at the Sound Art Research Unit of Oxford
Brookes University.
I studied sculpture at the Slade School
of Fine Art before completing a Masters in Time-Based Arts Practices
at Dartington College of Arts. In the last three years I have exhibited
and performed extensively across the UK and Europe. Recent exhibitions
include solo shows at Elevator Gallery (London) and Permanent Gallery
(Brighton) and performances at ArtEx Sonora (MACUF, La Coruña),
and All Around You (Arnolfini, Bristol). I am also one-half of the
mechanical rock band Human Separation, alongside Matthew Appleby. |
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