a rummage around in the recycling department [20:13]  (2018)
processed studio and field recordings
randomiser/articulator created in max msp
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two studies in things lying around (2017)
(listen) 

​brno industrial 1 [11:14]  
copper, steel, aluminium, tracing paper

brno industrial 2 [10:03]  
copper, aluminium, steel, shells, gourd, tracing paper

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AA batteries
copper wire
neodymium magnets
microphones
Breathing Space, Jedburgh, 15 May 2018.

cut glass bowls
nylon fishing line
dog crate
small dc motors
hand-made bowed psalteries
ebows
bandsaw blade, spring steel, steamer vanes, baking tin
Breathing Space, Jedburgh, 10 May 2018

cut glass bowls
small dc motors
dog crate (sans chien)
nylon fishing line

This time with better sound (matching pair of Audio Technica 3032 microphones and a Sound Devices MixPre-3 recorder). Work-in-progress filed and recorded at Breathing Space, Jedburgh, 10 May 2018.

“Thou said, drum - make well. (We) shall live, the reindeer not dying; also afterwards, children well”. *

Installation prototype (4’, stereo)

sound
frame drums 
slit drums
transducers

The piece is generated from code and can be of any duration, from minutes to hours to days, and for any number of channels.

This work sonifies Arctic sea ice data taken from 1980, projected forward to 2080. Pulsar synthesis is used to render the data.

Two tones, high and low, represent the sea ice levels a century apart. A sweeping tone between the two extremes marks the predicted loss of sea ice over the century. A sense of unfolding chaos is modelled by the complex patterns of interference and resonance resulting from the response of the drumskins to the electronically generated sound. The sound is channelled by means of transducers attached to the inner skin of the frame drums.

Concepts 
The use of the drum picks up on the technique behind the core sound generator, pulsar synthesis, and extends the chain of signification to the following:-

• the shaman’s drum, an instrument of mediation, of knowledge, communication and healing
• the talking drum
• the role of drumming in the cycle of creation and destruction in Hindu mythology
• drawing parallels between yet respecting the incommensurability of indigenous and Western scientific epistemologies

Thanks to Marcin Pietruszewski for assistance with coding the models, to Matteo Spagnolo and his team for providing the data.

*A. Beck Kehoe, Shamans and Religion, An Anthropological Exploration in Critical Thinking, Long Grove, IL., Waveland Press, Inc., 2000, p. 31.

bell, candle, incense

epicentre, an unplanned, unscheduled and unanticipated durational
performance/event/ex post facto still-life for coffee bodum, balloon and large volume of empty space in which objects assumed agency and thereby determined the conditions of the event.





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