Wave by wave (2022).
Fixed media (2-channels).
Duration: 12:00

More info at: https://avbees.com/wave-by-wave

Image credit: 59°N, 3.2°W, Heading North (detail) by C. W. Kirkpatrick (Pukka), 1988. Private Collection.

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Wave by wave

The heart speaks even when the lips cannot (2023)
Fixed media (2-channels) and collage (40 cm x 40 cm)
Duration: 6:20

More info at: https://avbees.com/the-heart-speaks

The heart speaks even when the lips cannot

Contribution to "... as a process of line-making" – a collaborative text score project organised by Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully (aka Distant Animals).

This fragment is for page 121 of the score: articulating sense.

More info: https://avbees.com/as-a-process-of-line-making/

… as a process of line-making

Collaborative text score: page 121

Contribution to "... as a process of line-making" – a collaborative project organised by Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully (aka Distant Animals).

This fragment is for page 62 of the score, titled "Instructions for an exhibition."

More info: https://avbees.com/as-a-process-of-line-making/

Collaborative text score: page 62

Contribution to "... as a process of line-making" – a collaborative project organised by Daniel Alexander Hignell-Tully (aka Distant Animals).

This fragment is for page 39 of the score, centering on a rabbit mask.

More info: https://avbees.com/as-a-process-of-line-making/

Collaborative text score: page 39

shovels.office.about (2016).
Fixed media (binaural recording).
Duration: 12:08

The title of this work, shovels.office.about, reflects the working conditions faced by workers in precarious employment today – frequent journeys, long commutes, and a multitude of different desks, colleagues, online accounts and working practices. The title re-uses the what3words location for Platform 2 at Ellesmere Port Railway Station, from where we await the 15:34 parliamentary train to Helsby.

An in-ear binaural microphone technique records the journey I took more-or-less monthly from 2015 to 2017. In contrast to the other ‘cattle train’ commuter routes I travelled, the blank corner of the image here reveals the ‘ghost train’ feel of this particular line: I was consistently the only passenger aboard between Ellesmere Port and Helsby, and the conductor’s announcements were voiced for me alone.

In 2004, written evidence submitted to the Select Committee on Transport stated that "Nobody can be expected to use such a "service" as it does not fit any work or leisure patterns" (section 2.1.3). Fifteen years later, the line remains open, however, since to close it down would require some parliamentary process or other, and would likely become expensive, time-consuming, and/or reputation-threatening…

The audio for this work was recorded in November 2016, and remained silent on a hard-drive for several years. I am making it available now for broadcast by The Dark Outside for their summer-solstice extravaganza, a 24-hour site-specific FM-radio broadcast of previously unheard sounds. 

More info: http://avbees.com/shovels-office-about/

shovels.office.about

Track 7: bellesounds

from: patient little sounds (2002).
Audio CD (2 channels). 
Duration 48:25

More info: http://avbees.com/patient-little-sounds/

bellesounds

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen beneath the high tide line

In person: what3words.com/reshaping.earphones.trail
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#bio-sea

bio-sea

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen for cycles and circular things

In person: what3words.com/recording.waters.momentous
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#anthro-land

anthro-land

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen a hair’s breadth above the ground

In person: what3words.com/taxed.fade.recline
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#anthro-air

anthro-air

Stone fringe postcards
Audio postcards, 8 in series (2019). 
Each: A6 card (double-sided) with listed location, listening prompt, cyanotype print and audio recording (two-channel).

Listen as water leaves the land

In person: what3words.com/gross.introduce.form
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#geo-land

geo-land

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen out widely, as if from high up above

In person: what3words.com/regular.thud.adopters
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#bio-air

bio-air

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen along with creatures intent on nourishment

In person: what3words.com/snacks.heckler.earlobe
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#bio-land

bio-land

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen while a wake takes its own time to land

In person: what3words.com/deleting.proofs.pastime
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#geo-sea

geo-sea

In: Stone fringe postcards (2019).

Listen to metal trunks and rope branches

In person: what3words.com/reputable.wide.dock
Online: avbees.com/stone-fringe-postcards#geo-air

geo-air

Saltwater incursion (2020)
30 cm x 115 cm. Cyanotype prints mounted on wood (edition of 3). Soundscape on digital audio player and headphones.

This work describes the risk of coastal flooding to my local area. Low-lying land – including the main street of our town – is predicted to be lost to the sea within the lifetimes of our children. In this work, I confront this stark reality.

I show the extent of predicted loss visually in the central blank area of the image, with higher land remaining to the left and the sea encroaching on our houses and piers from the right.

I use the current shoreline and flood prediction data to merge audio recordings of our current transport modes: the high-pitched whine of an electric car engine following the threatened land-route through the town, and the bass throb of the passenger ferry that is audible for miles around as it connects us with mainland Scotland to the south.

More info from http://avbees.com/saltwater-incursion/

Saltwater incursion

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Saltwater incursion (2020)

My contribution to Cities and Memory's #StayHomeSounds project

Stromness is a small harbour town sheltering in Scapa Flow. Our houses stand gable end to the sea, many with their own piers and slipways giving islanders direct access to the water. Pausing by the shoreline, I think the birds have been wondering what's happening with the humans these days...

This track has been included in an album of highlights of the #StayHomeSounds project, presenting the sounds of the global Covid-19 lockdown from all over the world: https://citiesandmemory.bandcamp.com/album/stayhomesounds-volume-1

More info at https://citiesandmemory.com/covid19-sounds/
and http://avbees.com/stay-home-sounds/

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