Featherphone
A percussion instrument using springs from snare drum wires. Amplified with four pairs of contact mics, one pair for each set of springs. Something like a kalimba/mbira with springs for tines. I use...
View ArticleOrganisms series
A comment I’ve often heard about music made with the Mechanical Techno system is that it sounds more organic than music made with ordinary sequencers. With this in mind I made trigger records and cut...
View ArticleObsolète
An exhibition of existing work for the start of a two month residency at Gallery Paradise, Nantes, France. May 2017. List of works: Various Modified Records; Stone Tapes; Untitled (Tape Ghosts);...
View ArticleReal Data
Video (22’35”) made by deliberately misinterpreting data collected from music producers about the extent to which they consider themselves Bedroom Producers (by my own definition). The video consists...
View ArticleSchéma
Exhibition of work made during a residency at Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France; May and June 2017. At the opening I played a live Rhythm & Drone set with a circular set-up. Also a performance...
View ArticleField Tracing
Video (30’54”), five channel audio, four tracing styluses and a rope. Reading about the idea of the Edison Defect – the first introduction of surface noise in recorded sound1 – I conducted an...
View ArticleMuseum of Peripheral Collections
Opening in late September 2017, an exhibition exploring the connections between the act of collecting, and music appreciation and music making. The exhibition at Bon Accuiel in Rennes, Nantes had two...
View ArticleUntitled (record sleeve cutups)
Three more square collages made from cutup record sleeves. Made between January and April 2018. These have been used as covers for the following albums, all released in 2018: Graham Dunning –...
View ArticleClimbing Walls series
Two pairs of collages made from cutup record sleeves, based on photographs of indoor climbing walls. Made on 5th October 2018. 21 x 21 cm / 8.25 x 8.25 inches Two of these were used as the front and...
View ArticleDrift
Drift: turning out of sync Drift: internal clocks Each of these two videos is an experiment in creating patterns through error. In Drift: turning out of sync each note is created by a rotating record...
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