Audio
Audio recording during Storm Hector (Shetland)
Field recording, June 2018
On 14th June 2018, Storm Hector hit the U.K. and Shetland was named by the Met Office, as one of the most at-risk regions. I couldn’t miss the opportunity to carry out field recordings of such an event while there. I was attracted to Victoria Pier at Lerwick because of all the sonic events that were being triggered by the very strong winds and waves that battered the wooden pier and boats.
Hydrophone recording during Storm Hector (Shetland)
Field recording, June 2018
On 14th June 2018, Storm Hector hit the U.K. and Shetland was named by the Met Office, as one of the most at-risk regions. I couldn’t miss the opportunity to carry out field recordings of such an event while there. I was attracted to Victoria Pier at Lerwick because of all the sonic events that were being triggered by the very strong winds and waves that battered the wooden pier and boats.
Metal sheet at Noss Sound (Shetland)
Field recording, July 2018
On two of my field recording trips to Shetland, I travelled with found objects and other instruments that I packed in my car together with my recording gear. These I used as interventions in many locations around the islands, some of which I have recorded. Amongst these items, I had a galvanised metal sheet that I would mic and leave in different environments - hanging from a branch, outside a croft or at the water’s edge. This recording is from a long session spent on a very small pebble beach at Noss Sound where a combination of a contact microphone and a hydrophone can be heard.
Bow Improvisation on Wire Fence (Shetland)
Field recording, June 2018
I am always attracted to wire fences for the sonic possibilities that they offer. At Pow of Cullingsburgh, on Shetland, I came across quite a stretch of rusty wire fencing, nicely weathered by the sea. It gave a very interesting response when bowed. The improvisation is a response to listening and engaging with my surroundings.
Interplay
Sound Installation, January 2018
This site-specific 6.1 sound installation is composed from sounds gleaned from The Glass Tank, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford (U.K.). Heard and unheard sounds together with my interaction with these sonic materials create an interplay that involves site, material, space and human interventions.
Ferry boat crossing, Mgarr - Gozo
Field recording, December 2017
I was standing on the quay, just a couple of meters away from the ferry boat service leaving Mgarr Harbour, on the island of Gozo. The big engines create quite a dramatic low rubble but as the boat leaves port and swirling currents create concentric designs in the open waters, air bubbles rise. They create an interesting sonic contrast as they are captured by my hydrophone.
Of Square and Oval Windows
Immersive sound installation, March 2019
An immersive audio reworking of Castle Car Park in East Oxford, guiding participants on a journey from concrete and brick through to speculative histories, and expansive vantages. Experience how buildings have agency - buildings that can listen, and how rivered worlds, ears as shells and flocking behaviours all have their place in concrete.
Pebbles Colliding
Field recording, December 2017
With careful microphone placement I managed to capture these beautiful percussive sounds of small stones colliding against one another as water flowed along the curving edge of a stream in Lye Valley, Headington (England).
Bamboo Ears
Field recording, November 2017
While walking through a valley thick with bamboo, I couldn't helping stopping every couple of meters to listen to the continuous creaking and swaying in the wind. Then I wondered what it would be like to listen to these sounds through the bamboo itself. With a small mic slipped inside one tall bamboo, this is what I heard! Mgiebah Valley, Malta.