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“ For who is prepared to go beyond the spider, the ladybug and the mouse, to a point of identification with things forgotten in the corner? ” — Gaston Bachelard Listening Beyond the Spider is an evening quietly engaging with all that is at the edges, or just beyond, in a house. Noticing the almost imperceptible that floats just out of reach, as delicate as the spider’s own web. Leaning in to…
Music and sound design for Prada’s advertising campaign for a new range of makeup called Touch, with global ambassador Bella Hadid. With Tin Drum Music.
A collaboration with young artists from Lewes Priory and Seaford Head Schools, in partnership with Archaeology South East, UCL, Writing Our Legacy and The Lewes Green Huts Project. Connecting architecture, landscape and colonial legacy through listening.
Tonight on Resonance FM. I produced this radio programme that weaves conversation, live performance, extracts from Morgan’s film ‘Available Light’ and field recordings from in and around Cafe Oto where Morgan and friends performed earlier this year. Resonance FM Thursday 6th Nov 8PM. Conversation, with Morgan Quaintance and Laura Ducceschi' Morgan Quaintance and Laura Ducceschi discuss…
I’ve fallen a bit behind sharing extracts but these are some things I heard earlier this year. In my studio I notice the radiator is gurgling like a churning stomach. As I listen more closely I discern three distinct layers of sound.
I’ve been running a lot of workshops this year, continuing to develop the methodology I began with Neolithic Cannibals through my deepening connection with listening. Recently I had a crisis of confidence as I was preparing for a series of workshops that I considered to be my most ambitious yet, using listening to invite curiosity into a space with deep history and trauma. In the midst of this I…
Neolithic Cannibals has received the top honour in the 'Composed with Sound' category at this year’s Sound of the Year Awards, an international celebration of innovative sound judged by leading experts from across the global sound community. I’m so proud of Amelia, Amy, Gracie-May, Harry, Izzy, Leonie, Ieuan, Sophia, and Tassia. Young artists from an area where it is very hard to become an artist,…
Communio In a subdued community cafe a distant electronic alert repeats a two - two rhythm. Ju knocks on her walls, then listens with a glass. We discuss listening to a place you don't go to and whether we can listen in both directions, though now as I read it back I can’t remember what we meant by that. I’m listening outside Cafe Oto. Rental bike beeps doppler, clicking and whirring past me…
I’m incredibly proud that the Neolithic Cannibals soundscape will be broadcast on Radiophrenia this year. I have a long history with the Glasgow based radio station, but sharing the work of young artists from the council estate where I grew up is really special. Those young artists can add arts radio station broadcast to their list of achievements alongside International Arts festival . 19/04/25…
I heard these sounds in February. Mausoleum acoustics, tuned air. A strained nothing sound. Air thin choral resonances. Leaning in between acoustic screens. I step through the curtain, drop my self consciousness and sing. I find harmony with AI, enjoying the secluded, private space to share my voice. I wonder if I’m singing with another human, unseen in the booth opposite me. I face a wall with my…
Beginning in March and continuing until August I’ll be running listening workshops in Shoreham on the south coast of the UK. "Echoes of Old Shoreham" is a community sound art project that captures and celebrates the rich sonic landscape and cultural heritage of Old Shoreham. This collaborative initiative invites residents to explore their historic surroundings through listening, creating an…
Curtains of water shimmer in fading light. Distinct zones of white noise showers. Drips, splats, trickles, droplets, flow. Wind activated waves of intensity, the outside swaying, rippling trees blown in through the huge jagged stone window in a wash of noise that fills the entire sound spectrum. Every surface damp. Listening to Cathedral Cave. Words and field recordings over on my Substack . Emily…
A series of cards each with a different listening invitation. Shown here during a listening workshop at the Architecture and Design Festival in Mumbai.
Tinkers surrounded by piles of different coloured soles, pots of polish and assorted tools, sit at the end of each platform tapping small wooden sticks to gain attention from passing passengers. The combined tapping is spatially pleasing, woodblock polyrhythms moving back and forth along the ends of the platforms. A huge air horn blast adds a dramatic counter and now crow caws join the wooden…
Things I heard in November. In a converted warehouse space an unexpected whoosh followed by the briefest whine, form an object in the air. It's the spatial trail that catches my ear. Connecting with Echo through making pitched down remixes of his favourite songs. Outside a long, drawn out noise sweep moves into the distance and I listen to its tail trying to hear where it ends. In my imagination…
Some things I heard in October. The Entertainer floats around Brighton station, bouncing off the glass ceiling. Squealing sharp travel, the hum of movement, upper frequency details ricochet around the expansive structure clattering against glass and metal. The Entertainer is not entertaining. A train arrives unheard, and bags pass me jingling delicately as zips and fastenings swing. A distant…
Sounds and music around the themes of Archaeology and deep listening. At Listen Club, The Rose Hill, Brighton on the 26th of September 2024. Neolithic Cannibals Clip 1 - Neolithic Cannibals - 4’22" Cave of Shells - John Kenny - 2’13" Stone Tape - Nigel Kneale/BBC Radiophonic Workshop - 4’45" Neolithic Cannibals Clip 2 - Neolithic Cannibals - 6’12" In the Cave - Pepe Deluxe - 1’51" Star Carr - Ben…
I heard these sounds in September. Read my latest Listening Journal.
Listening to stone. Inquisitive about what we might learn from ‘listening in’ and expanding our auditory experience. Stone Tape. Stalactite Organ. Tuning in to materials and connecting on a deeper level. Imagined prehistory ‘sound fabric’. Blake Baxter Detroit Underground Resistance thru sound. Uprising. The submerged surfacing. My beginnings. The landscape listens. Representing the softness and…
