Live performance near the Edinburgh-Glasgow Central train line.

electromagnetic fields (2014)

Visually astounding and sonically silent. The Grand Canyon was the first stop on our Eccentric America tour. Our seven mile round trip to Skeleton Point took us around 600m into the Canyon. All sounds were absorbed into the vast expanse of rock and ice. Overwhelmed by the sheer scale, I decided to play my smallest possible set up: a few modules [noise, filter, delay] from my KORG littleBits. Barely audible in reality, I paired the recorder to allow me to accompany the overhead planes. The short extract filters away at the end to reveal the real silence of the place.

Skeletal Point (2015)

Deep inside the Hoover Dam, this was recorded at the Penstock Viewing Platform. The pipes can transport up to 90K gallons of water/second from Lake Mead to the hydroelectric generators. This was all I could grab before we were ushered out.

This piece requires suitable headphones or loudspeakers as it contains predominantly low bass frequencies.

Bureau of Reclamation (2015)

The first recording under Bridalveil Fall in Yosemite. White noise, matched with white noise, and people trying to clamber over the slippery rocks.

Bridalveil (2015)

State Route 41 through Yosemite takes you to Tunnel View.

Danger (2015)

Scorched Earth (2015)

This piece took two forms: played through underwater speakers in the pool at the Clarendon Hotel, participants at ARTELPHX, 14th-16th May 2015 could submerge themselves to hear what was inaudible above the surface of the water.

I also performed a live version of this piece 6 times over the course of the festival using self-built hydrophone microphones that were suspended in the water. During the live performances, the music could be heard both above and below the water.

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Lucky Dip (2015)

Improvisation in the Clark Park Community Garden, Tempe, Arizona with the Arizona Cheese Factory Drone, birds, analogue synth resonating tyres, footsteps by Julian Stein.

Arizona Cheese Factory Drone (2017)

Resonating the inside of some tyres inside the Clark Park Community Garden with an analogue synth.

Sounding Out Spaces