Commissioned as part of 'Ravilious & Co : the pattern of friendship' at Towner Art Gallery. This sound diptych responds to two missing watercolours from a 1927 exhibition by Eric Ravilious. The sites for the paintings are revisited and rendered in spatial audio to create an immersive experience and a space for reflection on the Sussex countryside. ***PLEASE LISTEN ON A DECENT PAIR OF HEADPHONES***

The Missing Paintings

From a 2008 project "Le Madame", curated by Patricia Scanlon and featuring the voices of Scanlon, Deborah Levy and Mine Kaylon

The Destruction Of Language (after Le Madame)

A 'remote haunting' created as part of a practice-based PhD 'KIllruddery: Listening to the Archive' at SMARTlab UCD, supported by the Irish Research Council. This particular haunting was conceived during the 'Time Travel' research project, courtesy of Creative Futures Academy at NCAD and IMMA. 

The final version of this piece will be installed in the grounds of the Killruddery estate as part of a geo-located sound trail 'The Ancestors'. The version heard here differs slightly from that.

Walk This Place

A commission for HOUSE 2011 at Brighton Festival with ceramist J Kay Aplin, exploring the sound of the making process of ceramics.

A Chemical Process

Fire recorded in Estonia during a woodfiring symposium and water recorded from a natural spring at Borines in northern Spain. A sonic accompaniment to Kay Apln's 'Fire + Water' ceramic installation

Fire and Water

A re-enactment of a draft speech for broadcast on May 24th 1928, marking Empire Day by its founder Reginald 12th Earl of Meath. From the archives of Killruddery House & Gardens.

Published here as part of the appendix to 'Killruddery: Listening to the Archive', a practice-based PhD thesis at SMARTlab University College Dublin.

Empire Day re-enactment May 24th 1928

'Baby Giuseppe' taster

Words and music: Joseph Young aka Baby Giuseppe
Lead vocal: Baby Giuseppe
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Arrangement: Joseph Young & Richard Crowe
Backing vocals: Young & Rich
Synths: Young
Drum programming: Rich
Guitars: Rich

I Can't Believe it!

A studio recreation of a Sonic Baton performance for the opening of The Ceramic House show 'Crossings' on May 4th 2023. Featuring short samples courtesy of Kila... All other recordings copyright

Sonic Baton Ceramic House performance 'Crossings'

This audio paper explores through a ‘thinking out loud’ how  soundwalking practices in the landscape can contribute to the discussion of contested histories through the creation of immersive sonic encounters. The paper takes as its starting point a recently completed practice-based PhD research project in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland which explored the colonial-era archives of an Irish aristocratic family through walking and listening. 

The PhD, Killruddery: Listening to the Archive explored what it means to listen to a written archive, in order to examine how that archive could be brought into the public realm as a walking experience, displacing the hidden voices, the 'sonic spectres of archive' into the grounds of the Killruddery estate where they are summoned through the power of geo-location. 

In this remote audio paper, the idea of listening to the archive is brought to audition as a methodology for an artistic research process, how musing whilst walking (and simultaneously recording those thoughts) contributed to an artistic understanding of place and social context, through the interaction of the lived soundscape and the artist’s internal dialogue. The geo-located soundwalk that was produced as a result, The Ancestors (currently live on the Echoes platform) re-enacts this listening process for the listener/walker as they encounter the titular ancestors, the landscape and architecture whilst immersing themselves in over 400 years of archival material. 

Using original field recordings from the Killruddery estate, overlaid with a central narrative voice, the artist-researcher attempts to think through a process of examination, sonification and experience, using the audio essay format. 

“How do we walk this place,
In silence or in doubt?
How do we understand history,
Through architecture 
or through absence”

(Young, 2020, Walk This Place)

Soundwalking, Listening and Contested Histories

Taken from the forthcoming album on Farpoint Recordings "Sonic Hauntings in a Big House" (release date April 4th 2024).

A water powered clock on the Killruddery estate in County Wicklow, Ireland

**Binaural recording - best listened to on headphones**

Time Slips

A stereo version of an excerpt from a longer 72 min 4-channel sound installation (please listen on headphones)

listening to the wind (stereo edit)

A series of test recordings for a sound installation exploring the Shetland landscape. Recorded binaurally - please listen with a good pair of headphones...

Wind At The Gate

Meal Beach Waterfront

Lying In Grasses At Edge Of Meal Beach

The 2nd instalment of the Baby Giuseppe project. Recorded on 4th track analogue in the 1980s and remixed in the 2020s...

Produced by Joseph Young (aka Baby Giuseppe)

Hard Times

Presented at the House of Commons on March 11 2015, hosted by Caroline Lucas MP. 

"The People Have The Power,
The People Are The Government"
(John Lennon)

Revolution #10

A collage of animal noises from Cunningsburgh Show recorded monaurally on a Rode condenser mic

Old McDonald

Burra Single Bird Call And Waves

Commissioned as part of Ravilious & Co : the pattern of friendship at Towner Art Gallery. This sound diptych responds to the sites of two missing watercolours from a 1927 exhibition by Eric Ravilious. The sites for the paintings are revisited and rendered in 3D, or, binaural audio to create an immersive experience and a space for reflection on the Sussex countryside.

Reproduced courtesy of the Towner Art Gallery Collection

Barcombe Fields

Commissioned as part of Ravilious & Co : the pattern of friendship at Towner Art Gallery. This sound diptych responds to the sites of two missing watercolours from a 1927 exhibition by Eric Ravilious. The sites for the paintings are revised and rendered in 3D (or binaural audio) to create an immersive audio experience and a space for reflection on the Sussex countryside and how it sounds today...

Reproduced courtesy of the Towner Art Gallery Collection

Lane At Alciston

A stereo mixdown from a longer four-channel sound installation created for British Ceramics Biennial 2017 in Stoke-on-Trent.

A sonic dialogue between two making cultures, featuring field recordings from artists’ studios in Korea and ceramic production lines in Stoke-on-Trent. Exhibited as part of the 'Made in Korea' installation.

Handmade / Automation (excerpt)

A stereo mixdown taken from a longer permanent four-channel sound installation at Lewes Castle. 

What you hear are fragments of verse, some original and some quoted, such as Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Sussex’ and songs recorded in situ at the top of the tower by local Folk Song expert and afficiando, Valmay Goodyear. All accompanied by original binaural field recordings of the surrounding area and layered to produce a sonic journey of the imagination.

Singing the Castle to life (excerpt)

A stereo mixdown taken from a four channel site-specific sound installation at Newarke Gateway, Leicester as part of "in Situ" commissioned by Leicester De Montfort University in partnership with IRCAM. Using contemporary field recordings mixed with archive sounds, the piece evokes the importance of a brown field site in England in shaping mythologies of nationalism and identity. In this case, the contested site of The Battle of Bosworth.

A field in England (Excerpt from Part 1)

A performance of Dean Rosenthal's Stones/Water/Time/Breath by the fountain at Killruddery, Bray in Co. Wicklow, Ireland for World Listening Day 2019.

Stones/Water/Time/Breath #WLD2019

The Art of Noises manifesto read by Luigi Russolo himself...

Manifesto 1913

Sonic artist, specialist in binaural field recording, geo-located hauntological soundtrail "The Ancestors", now on show at Killruddery House & Gardens in Ireland. Award-winning sound designer for theatre, TV and radio.

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