Friday 31st January 2020, the evening of all evenings. A number of us gathered in the Pig Bothy at Scottish National Gallery (Modern One) to discuss the ‘ish’ in colours with Joyce Dixon, the necessity to enter the mortuary to understand the archive with Naomi Pearce and the unbidden with Maria Fusco. We heard about […]
Stolen Voices Album Launch CCA Glasgow Feb 8th 2020
Eavesdroppers, overhearers, listeners-in. Join us for the launch of Stolen Voices, a compilation album, sonic miscellany, and collection of dispatches from train stations and hotel lobbies up and down the East Coast of the UK. The launch includes performances from Rebecca Collins & Johanna Linsley, NicholaScrutton, Mariam Rezaei, Pete Stollery and Barrett’s Dottled Beauty. Limited edition vinyl will […]
The Sonic Study Series: Lisa Busby 6th Feb 2020
Thursday 6th February 2020 18.00 - 20.00 The Atrium, Alison House, University of Edinburgh Lisa Busby is a Scottish composer, vocalist, and improviser based in London. Situated across experimental music, performance art, and pop song, her practice often utilises the found and the prosaic, and manifests in various entangled modes – long-duration and site-specific work, […]
To See and Know More, Pig Bothy National Gallery 31st January 2020
Channelling proto-feminist mystics, writing in-situ, writing colour and theopoetics, this event will create a space for thinking about translation in its widest sense, sending crossing signals between languages, cultures, concepts and registers. Maria Fusco will discuss her new strand of research into anchorites – proto-feminist mystics – inspired and informed by her time at Sweeney’s […]
José Val Del Omar Workshop 2019
I was invited to take part in a two-day workshop exploring the sound archive and aesthetic legacy of Spanish artist, José Val del Omar (Granada, 1904 - Madrid, 1982) led by a team of musicologists and sound studies specialists which include the cultural producer for Spanish National Radio, Dr Miguel Álvarez-Fernández. The team of researchers […]
Spanish National Radio Sound Art Program 2019
Ars Sonora is a radio program solely dedicated to Sound Art transmitted weekly on Spanish National Radio (RNE) on their Classical Music Channel. I was invited by Miguel Álvarez-Fernández to speak about the ‘Stolen Voices’ album and discuss my artistic/academic trajectory. The program is 58 minutes long. Miguel and I discuss the project ‘Stolen Voices’ […]
The Juniper Tree Bulegoa, Bilbao, 2019
I was recently invited, alongside Karlos Martinez B to present a session for the Ilegal Cinema Series at Bulegoa, an artist research centre in Bulegoa, Bilbao. We chose the recently restored Nietzchka Keene film, The Juniper Tree. “Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shiningWe are glad to be scattered, we did little good […]
Stolen Voices Album Launch ACE Hotel London Oct 2019
Eavesdroppers, overhearers, listeners-in! Join us for the launch of Stolen Voices, a compilation album, sonic miscellany and collection of dispatches from train stations and hotel lobbies up and down the East Coast of the UK. The launch includes performances from Rebecca Collins & Johanna Linsley, Emma Bennett, Adam Matschulat and Flora Pitrolo. Stolen Voices is […]
Extra Sonic Practice: Tuning April 2019
On 10th April 2019, I was invited by Dr Marie Thompson at the University of Lincoln to present my work at the Extra Sonic Practice Research Group. Necessary Note is the title of a sonic detective novel written by Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley (forthcoming Copy Press, 2019). Working as Stolen Voices, Collins and Linsley […]
Critical/Fictional Investigations: Site, Sound and Listening 2018
Exploring creative-critical methodologies in relation to site, sound and listening.