Spike Milligan walked backwards for Christmas. Not sure in which direction I'm heading...

Walking Backwards (Quite Slowly, Most Of The Time)

Standing on the Edge (then Toppling Over)

My contribution to Cities and Memory's latest call for re-imaginings of field recordings - this is based on a recording of the bells of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Reading of Tennyson's 'Ring Out, Wild Bells' by Jemma Blythe, courtesy of librivox.com. Thanks to R.C. aka 'Electronic Battle' for his most useful advice.
Image (PD) courtesy of Wikipedia.

Ring In The New...

My contribution to Cities and Memory's 'Italy' project, based on a field recording of a major shopping street in Florence.

Image courtesy of Wikipedia (PD).

Conspicuous Consumption (Via dei Calzaiuoli)

My contribution to Cities and Memory's "Short Wave" project. Original recording from BBC World Service via The Short Wave Radio Archive. 
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Additional SW recordings courtesy of RC a.k.a. Electronic Battle who kindly lent me his SW receiver and helped me rig the aerial!

Image courtesy of Flickr/Wikipedia: 
Photo by Feeling My Age: The iconic BBC microphone. CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25061534

Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation

Based on a field recording of wind chimes, this piece features a reading by Cheryl St George of Poe's 'The Bells'.
Image courtesy of Wikipedia.

Chimes At 13 Minutes To 2

My contribution to Cities and Memory's "Obsolete Sounds" project.

Includes extracts from 'The Telephone Girl' by Orville Reed (1927).

Thanks to Wikipedia for the image.

La donna è mobile

A new version of a piece first exhibited at the Worcester Open 2023. Selected for broadcast by Radiophrenia, Glasgow, UK, April 2025.

Gentle Nymph (Radiophrenia version)

My contribution to Cities & Memories' Sonic Heritage project, based on a watery field recording made at Kew Gardens. 

Image courtesy of Jim - Flickr, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3713986

Nor any drop to drink

Based on a field recording of the Walcot Chapel by Cities & Memory, this piece explores the relationship between the writer Fanny Burney and the city of Bath. Selected for "Quiet Street" -  part of the Bath Fringe Festival 2015.

Re-mix (with added video) exhibited at the Wells Literature Festival 2017.

http://citiesandmemory.com/quietstreet/

Fanny Burney R.I.P. (feat. Tina Waller)

Image from Wikipedia (johndal: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0). My submission  to Cities and Memory's Autumn 2025 project. Based on an underwater field recording from Japan. Reading by Ian King of John Clare's poetry (from Librivox, PD).

Après moi, le déluge

To mark the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Cabaret Voltaire, Cities & Memory invited sound artists to "re-imagine" field recordings in the spirit of Dada. Here's my take on Schipol Airport, with a little help from Penn Sound and Ubuweb (thanks for the recordings of Hugo Ball's poetry - non-commercial use only).

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Schipolada

Former radio producer now digging around under the audio sofa, and coming up with something akin to Sound Art...

"Fanny Burney RIP"​ exhibited at the Bath Fringe Festival 2015.

"I've Got Those Queen Charlotte's Dress Blues" exhibited at the Bath Fringe Festival 2016.

"Fanny Burney RIP (The Wells Remix)" presented at the Wells Literature Festival 2017.

"The Heat of Blood" : winner of the Orchestra of Samples Remix Competition 2018.

"The Country I Remember" exhibited at the Little Islands Festival 2018, Greece.

"Prophetic Echoes and Dim Melody" exhibited at the Monitor Festival 2018, Crete.

"Country Life", "Queen Charlotte's Dress" and "Aldhelm's Riddle" exhibited at 'Listen - A Summer of Sound Art', Frome, Somerset, 2019.

Playlist compiler, 'Listen - A Summer of Sound Art', Frome, Somerset, 2019.

"Somebody/Nobody" (video) exhibited at the Little Islands Festival 2019, Greece.

"Gentle Nymph" exhibited at the Worcester Open 2023.

Sound art broadcast on Resonance-FM, Mayfest Radio & Frome-FM.

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