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Soundstack2019
Soundstack 2019 focused on the aesthetics of sound as space, in order to tackle this under-developed concern
IKO UK series 2019
The IKO loudspeaker array came to the UK, for the first time, in 2019. Gerriet K. Sharma and I presented a range of concerts, workshops and lectures to introduce our work, and the speaker itself, whose presence impacts keenly on the compositional process. 
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Sonic explorations with the IKO icosahedral speaker instrument, during my residency at IEM, Graz
Rumpus
Rumpus: A cinematic VR film which follows a modern-day Eurydice as she searches in the clubland underworld for Orpheus. Visually decadent and thematically magical, the film’s imagery is matched by divergent sonic possibilities, where audience gaze affects sound and narrative.
Ars Electronica 2019
Ars Electronica was exhausting and exciting, full of empty spectacle and interesting themes (which we will all come to make art about once we catch up, if we're not already)...
ReSound2019
Re:Sound 2019 was held in Aalborg, Denmark, and brought together practitioners and theorists of contemporary sound art
Soundstack 2018
In Oct 2018 I organised the second Soundstack - an event about the art and science of spatial sound.
IKO
In summer 2019 I will be working with the IKO, a system I met in Dec 2017 and fell for, instantly.
AES UK
I was invited to talk about all aspects of my work (unusual for a multi-cross-inter-disciplinarian) by Mariana Lopez at the University of York.
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At the AES confernece on Immersive & Interactive Audio at York, I presented a paper, spoke on a panel and most importantly got my HRTFs measured as a personalised take-home gift!
Sundowning
Sundowning uses interactive binaural sound for short cinematic VR film. This film won an initial award and further funding, and was invited to Sheffield Docfest makers’ market 2017. Sundowning is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease - this film explores what it is like to experience sundowning from a first person perspective. Shot in one take, it combines the technology of 360 degree filming with the stagecraft of theatre to create an immersive, unique and, at times, unsettling virtual reality experience.
Tate Exchange
I installed the Xingu Ensemble spatial audio at the Tate Modern, for the People’s Palace Projects in 2018. This exhibition was inspired by the indigenous territory of Xingu. The oca structure in the exhibition takes audiences on a journey to the Ipatse Village, home of the Kuikuro indigenous people in the Xingu region of Brazil, complete with ambisonic sound recordings of the community’s daily life and traditions, recorded by Nathan Mann.
novelstalgia
novelstalgia: audiovisual installation for three rooms exploring spectacle and embodiment. 5.1 surround sound and projection-mapping, with eye-tracked sonification of a graphic score. There was also a workshop allowing participants to create their own scores. Installed at Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent.
Contact Mics Pembrokeshire
field recording Pembrokeshire. I was kind enough to myself to take a break recently, and record in the field just for fun (is getting up for dawn chorus fun?)
Liquidscapes
Liquidscapes - conference. I presented the context surrounding [re]Sounding Balloon in Dartmouth June 2018
Loud Unclear
the subject matter I tend towards ranges from marine acoustic pollution to the aesthetics of attentive space
Soundstack_
Becky Stewart helped organise the event, and runs the Real Time Digital Signal Processing module at QMUL. Enda Bates is a technical and creative composer and lecturer at Trinity College Dublin. Topics covered included binaural and multichannel audio, the cutting edge of 3D sound, as well as spatial audio for interactive applications, VR, AR, installations and performance work.
PorcelainHeartGScore
Porcelain Heart. Porcelain as a material is a complex and robust composite. The lengthy evolution of its production contains a wealth of historical and cultural significance. Using the techniques of granular synthesis, and sampled spoken word, Porcelain Heart attempts to forge form and content, taking as its raw materials the seemingly disparate elements of porcelain’s biography, and colliding them together. Porcelain becomes a metaphor, at times fluid, at times opaque, moving between the macro and micro structures in a piece which is as much about process as product.
Flamecho
flamecho: a sonic composite of liminal moments somewhere between east and west London, somewhere between sleeping and dancing.
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In August 2018 I presented work about the accuracy of auditory distance perception, in cinematic VR, at the second AES AVAR (audio for AR & VR) conference in Redmond, Washington.
Norbert Schnell
One highlight of the Audio Mostly / Web Audio 2017 conferences (co-located and overlapping at Queen Mary Uni London, and both in which I was involved) for me was the use of Norbert Schnell’s phone app, enabling audience participation for a performance of a piece using santoor ’88 Fingers’ (performed by Benjamin Matuszewski).
[re]Sounding Balloon
[re]Sounding Balloon is a sculptural installation using spatial audio. A helium-filled weather balloon, attached to a weighted pulley system, determines the listener’s sonic experience, via an ultrasonic sensor. Expending effort, the listener can hoist the balloon - counterintuitively - upwards, to hear the piece in dynamic binaural reproduction. This installation was inspired by infrasound recordings of the ocean collected from weather balloons at high altitude. Its sonic materials are hydrophonic and found recordings, alongside infrasound taken from actual ocean monitoring by marine biologists.
South of the River
South of the River uses dynamic binaural sound for a short cinematic VR film which explores painter Barry Bish’s connection to the Thames River. Born and raised in south-east London to working-class parents, he represents (in work and life) a slice of London culture which is fast disappearing. Sounds of the Thames, opposite the iconic Tate & Lyle factory, pervade his studio and thoughts. He is a window into a dimension which signals authenticity, whilst appealing to a fetish-like commodification of its symbols.
Plasma Speaker
Plasma Speaker at ZKM, Karlsruhe.
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Doing Women's Film & Television History Network -conference. I presented a paper about distributed directing and the feminine, based on producing Sundowning with two other women. The paper celebrated the non-position of 'not knowing'.
Imperial College
I visited Imperial College's Dyson School of Design Engineering in April 2018 where I tested out my response time and accuracy in localising sound sources positioned using VBAP.
Barry Bish Show
Recording Barry Bish.
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Empty chair in an empty gallery
Empty chair in an empty gallery
VRUK workshop
@ VRUK 2017 I delivered a workshop at VRUK with Vanessa Pope and Shivani Hassard entitled ‘I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship: How three siblings (theatre, film and sound) finally learned to share’ where we approached narrative storyboarding in VR by blending theatre, film and sound design perspectives. It was reassuring how well people responded to our lo-fi approach to blocking… or storyboarding… or whatever you call the VR hybrid equivalent.
TU Berlin
TU Berlin
BINCI
BINCI
V&A workshop
V&A – digital learning I worked with the V&A’s Head of New Media Arts Development Irini Papadimitriou to deliver a VR workshop in May, with my co-conspirator Shivani Hassard.
EyeTracker
Surpreyes – explainer video for a sonified eye tracker. A demonstration of an eye tracking device designed to highlight the surprising lack of fine voluntary motor control we have over our eyes..
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EVA 2018. I presented a paper about [re]Sounding Balloon at the EVA (Electronic Visualisation & the Arts) conference July 2018. All the technology that could fail, failed.
Hold-up
Hold up – documentary of a perfomance-tech collaboration. A recent documentary I co-produced about tech-performance collaborations
UTS Data Arena
Working with a 360 panoramic (acoustically transparent) screen and 16-channel speaker system to re-purpose cinematic VR content and make use of the space's unique affordances
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