What is silence? 

A sonic exploration of silence and the noise that surrounds it.

Headphones recommended.

Produced for an AHRC funded project.

Image: Ilya (flickr)

The Sound in Silence, the Silence in Sound

Evoking the sinister rumours and paranoia spread around Battersea during the first world war. Locals were convinced that German bakers were secretly hiding Zeplins in their back-yards and this soon led to civil unrest and riots, resulting in several bakeries being ransacked.

WORDS 
James Wilkes 
Tom Chivers 

SOUND
Ed Prosser

VOICES
James Wilkes
Thea Jones 
Tom Chivers

Produced for The Listening Post sound installation, part of 'After a War' at Battersea Arts Centre(Commissioned by LIFT and 14-18 NOW).

More info here: http://onthenatureofthings.com/2014/09/26/audio-the-listening-post/

Rumours [The Listening Post]

Occurring without warning, the panic attack is a crippling and cruel symptom of many anxiety disorders. These debilitating episodes thrust individuals into intense bouts of terror, leaving them fighting to regain control of their own body.

This piece was produced as part of the Hubbub Relaxation / Cacophony tape, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and featured during the Lates Spectacular event in September 2015.

Listen to the Relaxation / Cacophony Tape in full here: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/the-dark-roomhubbub-relaxationstress-tapewellcome-collection/

Image: cristina - https://www.flickr.com/photos/cristinafotografia/5025559787/

Anatomy of a Panic Attack (2015)

Excerpt from SOME LIKE DARK event held at the Wellcome Collection in April 2015.

Featuring an interview with physicist Sir John Pendry.

Commissioned by the PARS Foundation: http://www.parsfoundation.com/Treats-on-Light

Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nslashdot/8438678902/

Sir John Pendry - SOME LIKE DARK - (Excerpt 4)

Excerpt from SOME LIKE DARK event held at the Wellcome Collection in April 2015. 

Featuring an interview with physicist Sir John Pendry.

Commissioned by the PARS Foundation: http://www.parsfoundation.com/Treats-on-Light

Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nslashdot/8438678902/

Sir John Pendry - SOME LIKE DARK - (Excerpt 3)

Sir John Pendry - SOME LIKE DARK - (Excerpt 2)

Sir John Pendry - SOME LIKE DARK - (Excerpt 1)

Helen Sharman, Britain's first astronaut, recounts her dreams about being back in space.

Watch the animation: https://vimeo.com/147315192

Produced for a Wellcome Collection event in London.

Image: Andrew Khosravani

The Astronaut's Dream

Audio piece produced in collaboration with poet James Wilkes, composed from volumes of text searches referencing relaxation. The short text passages were collated on large paper rolls produced by a receipt printer, a random selection of which are featured in this piece.

Written by James Wilkes, produced by Ed Prosser.

This piece was produced as part of the Hubbub Relaxation / Cacophony tape, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust and featured during the Lates Spectacular event in September 2015.

Music: Kevin MacLeod

Listen to the Relaxation / Cacophony Tape in full here: http://www.inthedarkradio.org/the-dark-roomhubbub-relaxationstress-tapewellcome-collection/

Image: Sandra Tsikor (Flickr - https://flic.kr/p/84KUKh)

Relaxation Poem (2015)

Why is death such a difficult subject for us to talk about? From hospital mortuary to the grave, The D-Word explores our bitter relationship with death through the perspective of those who deal with it on a daily basis.

Featured on Transom.org, The D-Word is a documentary produced in 2011 on the subject of death. I’d urge you to visit Transom and explore their excellent site - https://transom.org/2012/the-d-word/

Image by: David Paul Ohmer (flickr)

The D-Word (2011 Documentary)

Processed and layered piece constructed from a single recording of a dustbin truck captured outside of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. 

The piece was produced for exhibition at an In The Dark live listening event on Cityscapes and presented within the Glasshouse Bookshop at the Wapping Project on Wednesday 22nd March 2012.

http://www.inthedarkradio.org/?p=4006

If you have ever been woken up in the early hours by a dustbin collection I’m sure you’re aware of the complex mechanical racket that they make. I wanted to capture and then pull out elements of this noise, turning it into an evolving, glitchy cascade of sound that would fill the listening space it was to be presented in.

http://onthenatureofthings.com/2012/03/23/audio-piece-the-dustbin-man-cometh/

The Dustbin Man Cometh

Audio work commissioned for the In the Dark: One Night Stand event (http://www.inthedarkradio.org/?p=4272).

The whale sounds you hear are constructed from the moans and groans sampled from pornography films: manipulated, stretched and processed until they came to resemble the sounds of whales. More info here: http://onthenatureofthings.com/2012/05/16/audio-piece-porn-whales/

Music: Kevin Macleod

The piece was featured and played as part of the In the Dark 'One Night Stand' listening event at the Clachan Pub, London 14/05/12.

Porn Whales

Join writer Holly Corfield Carr for a walk through the woods, looking at trees through a fly’s eyes and listening to whether a yellow leaf is louder than a green one.

Holly considers artworks by Giuseppe Penone, Robert Smithson, Roxy Paine and Mariele Neudecker, and interweaves her own words with poems by Vahni Capildeo, Emily Dickinson, Sasha Dugdale and Alice Oswald.

Among The Trees with Holly Corfield Carr | Hayward Gallery

Film maker, radio producer and sound artist. Based in London.

My blog - http://onthenatureofthings.com
Portfolio: http://edprosser.com
t: @edwardprosser

edward.prosser1[at]gmail[dot]com

Involved with radio collective In The Dark, we put on regular listening events across London and lots of other lovely things to do with radio and audio: http://inthedarkradio.org

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