(photo by Pheobe riley Law)


selected exhibition / performance



moss listening - Sonic Acts Biennale, Amsterdam, Netherlands - February 2024

moss listening / sour bay with Pheobe riley Law - Matsudo Science Art Festival, Matsudo, Japan - October 2023

improvisation, with Pheobe riley Law & Toshi Nakamura - Permian, Tokyo, Japan - October 2023

secret sound of trees (with Lau Nau) - Beechenhurst, Forest of Dean - September 2023 + soundwalk (stream / download)

we marry you o sea (film by Sonia Levy with sound by myself & Pheobe riley Law) - Ocean Space, Venice - September 2023 & Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid - Oct - Jan 2024

faulty borders (with Pheobe riley Law) - APT Gallery, London - June 2023

soil horizons / glacial objects - silica - Divfuse Gallery, London, April 2023


The Crystal Detector (with Pheobe riley Law) - Burning Man Festival - Aug / Sept 2022


response to 'oh o salinity' (score by Pheobe riley Law) - Hari Art Space, Hull - July 2022


Place / Metal / Strings - improvisation with Alice Eldridge & Adam Bushell - Sound Art Brighton Festival 2022


new work, with Pheobe riley Law - LCMF, London - tba 2022

faulty borders (with Pheobe riley Law) - video essay (online) 

'Anthropocene in C Major' - Climarte, Adelaide, Australia - March 2022



river resonances / for clarinet and nodar - Museu Municipal De Vouzela, Portugal - Jan 2022

creatures of the lines (collaboration with Sonia Levy) tba_21 Academy - dec 2021

a glacier heated by the sea | dissolve - As If Radio - November 2021

scores for listening - Polymedialer Ponyhof, Berlin - November 2021 

summit (low) with Pheobe riley Law - Sound Scotland, Aberdeen - october 2021

breet velvit ake (soundwalk) - Hull, UK - September 2021

a glacier heated by the sea (concert version) - New Maker Ensemble tour, Portugal - September 2021


collaborative text with Pheobe riley Law inc. in Expanded Listening by Aura Satz, London - september - october 2021


ink botanic (extract) - Vienna Biennale, 2021

Creatures of the Lines (collaboration with Sonia Levy) - Le Cours de L'Eau festival, France - July/August 2021

over borders #2 - PDF publication, curated by JrF & Pheobe riley Law - Walking as a Question conference, Greece - July 2021

For the Love of Corals (collaboration with Sonia Levy) - MAAT, Lisbon - July 2021

/ˈhʌmbər/ (Humber) - Riversssounds online platform + artist talk + soundwalk + pdf - April 2021 - online ongoing


faulty borders, with Pheobe riley Law (video essay) - Beast Feast, Birmingham - April 2021


For the Love of Corals (collaboration with Sonia Levy) - Karlin Galleries, CCA, Prague - march - may 2021

Expanded Listening for Drawing Room (contribution) - Drawing Room; London 2021


'dawn under tin roof, with rain' - Listen, British Library installation, Pingshan public library, Shenzhen, China - April - October 2021 

island | fjorar - the crystal detector - Steklenik Gallery, Ljubljana  - March 2021


the crystal detector (with Pheobe riley Law) - Radio Slovenia Ars Programme, Ljubljana - March 2021

score for listening #100 - realisation (available via QR code), with Pheobe riley Law - Steklenik exhibition booklet (pdf) - March 2021

over borders - PDF publication of scores, curated by JrF & Pheobe riley Law - Walking Festival of Sound, 2021

trace elements - seven part online project (inc. with Pheobe riley Law) - Nov-Dec 2020

un-transmitted data | interference of objects (video essay) - Uni of Arts, Stockholm - Oct 2020

audible silence | turbine hall (geophonics) - Museo Reina Sofia, Spain - Oct 2020 - Jan 2021

scores for listening - q-02, Brussels 


Height of the Reeds (live version) - Punkt Festival, Norway - September 2020


SOA - participant in documentary film by Raquel Castro, IndieLisboa film festival - Aug-Sept 2020

island | resonant silica - Sonic Curiosities, Berlin - Aug 2020


Chronotope - multi-part collaborative project for Marsden Jazz Festival - June-Nov. 2020


'entice new normality' (score for listening, with Pheobe riley Law) - GMEA, France - June 2020 + at Standard, Milan (2020), Q-02, Brussels (2020) & Civa, Brussels (2021)


dissolve | coral  (as part of Sonia Levy's online variation of For the Love of Corals, soundtrack by myself and Georgia Rodgers) - ZKM, Germany - May 2020

For the Love of Corals - collaboration with Sonia Levy, installation / screening at Heidelberger Kunstverein - November 2020 + Art Laboratory, Berlin - August-October 2020 + ZKM Germany - July 2020 + TBA21 Academy's Ocean Archive (online) 

tuning-in station / there's something in the air (infrasound recordings inc. in collective radio project - Grimeton Radio Station exhibition, Sweden - May 2020


sound camp april collaboration school - April 2020


various works - Borealis Festival Radio Space, Bergen, Norway - March 2020


height of the reeds (live) - Punkt, Birmingham - March 2020


'Climate Symphony' (contributed field recordings) - CPH:DOX, Denmark - March 2020


44O+ - Spikersuppa Lydgalleri, Oslo, Norway - January - february 2020


'moments # 2' (photographic score) - Onassis Foundation, Greece - february 2020


island | fjorar (resonant silica) - Attenborough Centre, UK - January 2020


island | fjorar (glacial objects) - NTT / ICC (Tokyo) - December 2019 - March 2020

for the love of corals (collaboration with Sonia Levy) - Museum of Natural History, Paris - February 2020


island | fjorar (installation) + dissolves (performance) - Catalyst Arts, Belfast - November 2019


dissolve | lugnas - walking festival of sound, Newcastle - October 2019

three soundworks for 'Benjamin', Radio Papesse tram shelter transmission project, Florence, Italy - October 2019


shee (r) glan - Les Garages Numériques Festival, Belgium - november 2019


'For the Love of Corals' (collaboration with Sonia Levy & Georgia Rodgers) - Baltic, Newcastle, UK - September 2019

dissolves | lugnas - walking festival of sound, Stockholm - September 2019


'score for listening # 60' - Listening to Landscapes, Salisbury - September 2019


scores for listening (exhibition) - re:sound, Denmark - August 2019


multiple sound works - The Dark Outside radio broadcast event, Epping Forest - June 2019


multiple sound works - Radiophrenia broadcast festival, online and at Glasgow Centre for Contemporary Art - May 2019


'For the Love of Corals' collaboration with Sonia Levy - Paris Natural History Museum, France - april 2019  & Goldsmiths University, April 2019


teleferica + improvised performance - West Dean College of Arts, UK - March 2019


collaboration with Jóhann Jóhannsson for the soundtrack / sound design of the film 'First and Last Men' - released summer 2019


three works - Borealis Festival Radio programme - online, March 2019


'For the Love of Corals' collaboration with Sonia Levy - Obsidian Coast, UK - October - Jan 2019


'weaves' - installation as part of Kinokophone sound spores - Birchcliffe centre, Hebden Bridge - November 2018


performative lecture - architecture & the senses symposium, plasy, czech republic - october 2018


'interference of objects' with Pheobe riley Law - Fort Process, UK - September 2018


performative lecture - Iklectik gallery, London, UK - September 2018


'jokulsarlon' - listening to landscapes event, silver spring, USA - September 2018


audible silence | japan - blue dot festival - July 2018


'interference of objects'  with Pheobe riley Law & Catherine Kontz + solo performance - ftarri, japan - April 2018


from 'the elusive fields' - paradise air, japan - April 2018


scores for listening - paradise air, japan - April 2018


'where do we go from here' - soundtrack collaboration on installation from Jason Bruges Studio, Hull - December 2017


'geothermal activity' - radio broadcast, BBC radio 3 'sounds of the earth' - feb 2018


'snew' - installation, Kottinspektionen, Sweden - November 2017


performance - Cafe Oto, London - November 2017


'Iceland mineral reaction' - broadcast, Radiophrenia - November 2017

'dawn under tin roof, with rain' - Listen, British Library installation, UK - October 2017 - May 2018 


'Here we are' - soundtrack to accompany Burberry's exhibition of British Photography - Old Sessions House, London - Sept - Oct 2017


'ceramic dissolves' - performance with Pheobe riley Law at Made in Korea exhibition as part of the British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke, UK - September 2017


'four words' - group installation, Leeds Beckett Uni - November onwards 2017


'retreating the line' - collaboration with film maker Esther Johnson - screened as part of 'Somewhere becoming sea' exhibition at Humber Street Gallery, Hull & Swedenborg film festival, April - Nov 2017


'scores for listening' - scores as part of the exhibition to celebrate the British Music Collections 50th anniversary


'Icelandic dissolve' - sound piece as part of a headphone site-specific installation for 'Benthic Caress', Plymouth - September 2017


performance - punkt festival, Norway - September 2017


teleferica (extract) - Norsk filmlydforening, Oslo, Norway - September 2017


'island  |  fjor' - performance as part of climate change symphony event, Newcastle - July 2017


'the sonics of transmitted red' - sound piece, NCCA, Moscow - June / July 2017


'a tinta esbate-se em forma de onda' (collaboration with Carina Martins) - Museu Nacional de Hisoria Natural e da Ciencia, Portugal - June / july 2017


'teleferica' + collaborative improvisation with Pheobe riley Law - BBC3 exposure - April 2017


'the sound of the world turning' - installation as part of North Atlantic Flux, Hull - April 2017


'island | geothermal activity' - installation, Hull - April 2017


'The height of the reeds' - collaboration with Opera North, Jan Bang, Arve Henrikson & Eivind Aarset  for Hull City of Culture 2017, Humber Bridge, Hull - April 2017


'teleferica' - Hull University Sound and Environment symposium, Hull - June 2017


'ebb & flow' - ambisonic installation, collaborative project led by Jason Singh, Hull - June 2017


realisation of 'open field' by Pauline Oliveros - Hull University - March 2017


located sound workshop performance with nine fine art students from Newcastle University, Culture Lab, Newcastle - Feb 2017


'score for listening # 80 - four variations' - realisation by Nordic Affect, Dark Music Days, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland - January 2017


'scores for listening' - exhibition, chinese OPEN, Le Coq Artistes, London - Jan-Feb 2017


'not much is a lot than can happen in fifteen minutes....its a matter of scale and position' - collaboration with Pheobe rile Law - Newbridge Project, Newcastle - November 2016


'one minute of listening' - several field recordings included in two educational packs for primary schools, Hull 2016/17


'score for listening # 80 - four variations' - premiere by Nordic Affect, Mengi, Reykjavik, Iceland - October 2016


'score for listening' - performance with workshop students, Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark - October 2016


H e (a) r by Halla Steinunn Stefánsdóttir drawing on aspects of text and scores by various artists including a score by myself & Pheobe riley Law - Nordic Music Days, Iceland - September 2016 / Transistor, Sweden - November 2016 / Inter Arts Centre, Malmo, Sweden - September 2017


'a glacier heated by the sea' - sound piece, Museum of Water, Rotterdam Schouwburg, Netherlands - September 2016


'waiting 1-8' (part one) - multiscreen video / sound installation, yorkshire - march 2016


'weaves' - installation at Whitworth Gallery, Manchester, UK - spring 2016


'score for a footbridge' as sound for video piece 'a tinta esbate-se em forma de onda' by Carina Martins - Jardins Efemeros, Viseu, Portugal - July 2016


'score for listening # 78 (waiting / compact)' - photographic and text score by Jez riley French & Pheobe riley Law, realisation by Philip Thomas & Matthew Bourne - Munro House Gallery, Leeds & Bank Street Arts, Sheffield - June 2016


'glen buck loch' + score for listening #59 - 0℃ exhibition, BlanClass, Tokyo, Japan - May 2016


site specific performance - soundcamp London, Stave Hill Park, London - May 2016


dissolve - audio screening as part of Speeding & Braking: navigating acceleration' conference , Goldsmiths, London - May 2016 


movere | soundtrack for an unfocused image # 1 - online sound annexation project, Acoustic Cameras - April 2016 - ongoing


movere | dolomite path - audio screening with still photograph at Screenscapes, contemporary resonance exhibition, Royal College of Art, London - April 2016


'score for nissai theatre (tokyo) performance with Pheobe riley Law - Leeds, February 2016


'score for listening' performance by Anima Ensemble, Newcastle - january 2016


whitworth Art Gallery / Kinokophone 'gallery' piece -  Whitworth Gallery, Manchester - October 2015


'Lit 1.3 - residences de lumiere' film/sound (collaboration with Alexander Wendt) - Weltecho gallery, Germany - October 2015


'island | geothermal activity' - site specific installation, southern Iceland - august 2015


'score for listening - silo city' - photographic score / listening event, Silo City, Buffalo, USA - June 2015


performance / talk at Other Worlds Festival of Experimental music, Blackpool, UK - April 2015


'movere | dolomite paths' - 4-channel piece at Lodge, Chicago, USA - April 2015


multiple tracks - online streaming as part of the foundsoundscape project - march 2014 onwards


'a quiet position - dordolla' - installation, Unikum exhibition, University of Klagenfurt, Austria - March 2015 


'sulpher vents with geophone, Iceland' - audio screening, New York Library of Performing Arts, USA - September 2014


'fences, gorse, dissolve, water beetles' - sound diffusion for Landance performance, Valley of Stones, Dorset, UK - September 2014


'a quiet position - road' installation, End of the Road festival, UK - August 2014


'a quiet position - beacons' audio screening, Beacons festival, UK - August 2014 


'architecture naturalle' with Pheobe riley Law - topolo, Italy - July 2014


'five short films from topolo' with Pheobe riley Law - topolo, Italy - July 2014


'nightwalk' - collaborative sound walk for MayFest, Leigh Woods, Bristol - May 2014 


'foxley wood fence posts' - Juan March Foundation, Madrid, Spain - March 2014


'teleferica's' (8 channel mix) - Fermata exhibition, Artisphere, Arlington, Virginia, USA - May - August 2014


'a quiet position: dordolla', - dordolla festival, Italy - May 2014


'4 extracts' - MoMa Soundings (Museum of Modern Art, New York) - online archive


'teleferica' - audio screening, New York Library of Performing Arts, USA - February 2014


'Quiet fields on the way from work' - Skolska 28, Prague - Jan 2014


Liminal - an interactive creative object, installed in the McAullay gallery space at Tate Modern & soundtracked by 'audible silence - The Tate, sleeping & waking' - Dec 2013  - Feb 2014


juke box meets Tate Britain - 'audible silence - The Tate, sleeping & waking' as part of the new installation curated by Yuri Suzuki as part of the 500 years of British Art walkthrough series - november 2013 - february 2014


'audible silence - The Tate, sleeping & waking' commission for Tate Modern - june 2013 - ongoing


'inside the circle of fire' (with Chris Watson) - Sheffield art gallery - september 2013 - january 2014


'listening walk: the merchants railway', portland - october 2013


leigh woods audio walk project - Bristol, UK - September 2103 - May 2014


'audible the silence: concert for the architecture, victoria baths' - Manchester, UK - september 2013


'room tone' - Spazioersetti galley, Udine, Italy - october 2013


'sonata / weaves' - Lisbon Architecture Trienale, portugal - september - december 2013


'a quiet position | topolo' with Pheobe riley Law - topolo, Italy - July 2013


audio screening, malmo, sweden, may 2013


audio screening, soundfjord, march 2013


piece for Touch Radio, february  2013


piece for micro-radio installation, manchester, december 2012


performance at city halls, glasgow - october 2012


performance / talk @ wired lab, australia - september 2012


performance / talk @ gift_lab, Matsudai, Japan - August 2012


performance @ gift_lab, Tokyo - July 2012


performance with Tokyo Phonographers Union, Tokyo - July 2012


talk / performance / workshop @ soundfjord, london - June 2012


performance, The Noise Upstairs, Sheffield - March 2012


performance, Arts space college, Bristol - March 2012


performance / lecture, PVA AudioLab, Kingscombe, Dorset - March 2012


photographic exhibition, metricubi, Venice - February 2012


performance with CGAS ensemble, showcase cinema, Sheffield - December 2011


performance / lecture tour - czech republic - November 2011


performance / lecture - FieldFest, q-o2, brussels, belgium - october 2011


installation - ‘resonances de lumiere’, folkstone triennial, Kent - september 2011


performances (2), Topolo, Italy - July 2011


performance / talk, Goldsmiths college, London, UK  - July 2011


performance, dotolim, Seoul, Korea - june 2011

'resoanances | Mullae  - exhibition, Mullae Art Space, Seoul, Korea - june 2011


performance / lecture tour (inc. 5 concerts - 3 solo + 1 with Toshi Nakamura / 1 with Sawako), Japan - May 2011;

Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo 
sample white room, Nara
performance + exhibition of photographic scores at Gift_Lab, Tokyo


performance, showcase cinema, sheffield, UK - march 2011


performance, Huddersfield University, UK - march 2011


solo performance / installations @ Nodar / Binaural ‘paivascapes’ festival, Portugal - March 2011


solo performance @ Skolska 28, Prague - May 2010


‘often ingress’ - audio / visual work @ Hull school of art & design, Hull - December 2009 / January 2010


solo performance at Expo, Leeds - July 2009

performance - q-02, Brussels - June 2009


solo performance @ Y Gallery, Tartu Estonia – May 2009


‘in place’ – solo exhibition, ArtLink gallery, Hull April-May 2009


Performance at New Work Yorkshire event, Leeds – March 2009


 ‘in place’ – on going project 2008-2009 – including work with:


Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge (July 2008)


Jaqueline Du Pre building, Oxford (July 2008)


Humber bridge (July / August 2008)


Solo performance @ Skolska 28, Prague – June 2008


‘Sudek’s studio’ – site specific piece for Sudek Attelier, Prague – June 2008


Performance (trio with Patrick Farmer & Dom Lash) @ LMC festival, London – May 2008


Audio / visual performance at Spike Island gallery, Bristol – Jan 2008


Performance (with Daniel Jones, Max Eastley, Evan Parker, Mark Wastell and Graham Halliwell) at Chisenhale dance space, London – Dec 2007


Performance (audio / visual) – ‘’audible architecture # 6’ at Bloc assembly, Sheffield – Dec 2007


Performance at Amann (solo & with Taku Unami, Noid, Klaus Fillip & Tim Blechmann) – Vienna, Nov 2007


Photographic commission for ‘Hammonds’ exhibition, Hull – Sept 2007


‘east riding’ (audio/ visual) – 4 part audio work presented 2007 at various venues in Hull


‘mouth of the humber’ – audio / visual work commissioned by Humber mouth festival – July 2007


Duo for field recordings & strings (with Rhodri Davies) – UK, July 2007


2 UK performances with Toshimaru Nakamura & Billy Roisz   -  April 2007


solo performance at Skolska 28, Prague – May 2007


solo performance at Amann studios, Vienna – May 2007


solo performance + collaboration with Ivan Palacky at Sklenena Louka, Brno – May 2007


solo performance at Rhiz, Vienna – May 2007


solo performance at Quitch gallery, Linz – May 2007


‘Then the silence increased’ group exhibition Manchester, University of Salford – May 2007


5 duet performances with Lee Patterson – Feb / March 2007


Durational performance of intuitive composition – Kinetica gallery, London – November 2006


Performance & exhibition – Holy Trinity, Leeds 2006


‘Tristesse 22102006 1 & 2’ – performance @ New Work Yorkshire perambulator @ South Square gallery, Bradford 2006 


Re-soundtrack performance @ digital Scarborough festival – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough 2006


Solo & trio performance @ resound exhibition – Mid-Pennine gallery, Burnley 2006


‘quartet avj2004-1’ – intuitive composition performed at NewWorkYorkshire, Bretton Hall


‘limitedspace’ – limited space performance – Tokyo 2003


‘k-foundation – burning a million’ – live soundtrack, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull 2003




Published work (selection):


mɜː.məˈreɪ.ʃən  |  pərˈfɔr.mɪŋ pleɪs (remixed) - collaborative release, with Pheobe riley Law, Jenny Berger Mhyre, Bethan Kellough, Pernille & Felicity Mangan
(engraved glass / Breton Cassette)


ringtones project volume #1 - Matsudo ring-tones - with Pheobe riley Law


ísland | star farm / star farm parallel (engraved glass)


in limitless geologies #1 (engraved glass)


in limitless geologies #2 (engraved glass)


Windows tape release (with Pheobe riley Law) (Presque Tout)


Place / Metal String (extract) (Sound Art Brighton)


trace elements #6 - edges (mid-morning, early afternoon) (engraved glass)


live notes | resound 20-5-2006 (engraved glass)

music for headphone listening  |  ear cleaning (engraved glass)

ants eating an apricot (archive video)

trace elements #4 - habitats (afternoon, early evening) (engraved glasss)


35 short pieces for a broken guitar (engraved glass)

over borders #2 - book of open scores (PDF)

over borders - book of open scores for Walking Festival of Sound (PDF)


/ˈhʌmbər/ (Humber) - multichannel sound piece (riversssounds) + PDF


ìsland | fjorar - the crystal detector / score for listening #100 - with Pheobe riley Law (QR code, Steklenik gallery booklet - free download here)

gate (engraved glass)


(open) strings | vristulven / västra | line through monitored forest (engraved glass)


audible silence | weaves (engraved glass)


'instamatic | japan' (2011) (engraved glass)


'previously, various' (engraved glass)


'scores for listening' with Pheobe riley Law (òs pressan, Iceland)


Hyperobjects - exhibition catalogue (Catalyst Arts)


'Last and First Men' film / sound recordings (Deutsche Grammophon)


misshapen lodge - complete archives; 18 albums (misshapen lodge)


temperance five (engraved glass)


'score for listening - entice new normality (collaborative score with Pheobe riley Law)


'audible silence | tate modern' (engraved glass)


'through air drying # 1-8' - published with issues of verdure engraved


'scores for un-transmitted data' (collaborative project with Pheobe riley Law, Eliza Bozek, Gabrielle HB, Judy Nylon etc) - set of scores in an edition of 5 sets


'shee(r) glan # 2' - on 'murmuration # 2' compilation (engraved glass)


'suketchi' (photo book edition) (engraved glass)

'returning | reeds' with Pheobe riley Law (engraved glass)


'one hour spent listening to the pebble table' (engraved glass)


'scores for listening # 70 & 80' with Bethany Nicholson (engraved glass)


'installation | pollau - with Natalia Borrisova (engraved glass)


'elusive fields' (engraved glass)


'salts  |  adagios' (engraved glass)


'shee(r) glan' - on 'murmuration # 1' compilation (engraved glass)


'height of the reeds' with Eyvind Aarset, Arve Henriksen, Jan Bang & the orchestra & chorus of opera north (rune grammophon)


'aie (aarhus improvisers ensemble) - 'small bears in pools' (engraved glass)


'the view from the studio window' (engraved glass)


'solde scores' (engraved glass)


'cp # 1 - 5' (as part of verdure engraved magazine) (engraved glass)


'nordub' - appearance on album by Sly & Robbie (Okeh)


'dissolves (korea)' - sound piece on the 'Celadonaphonic' sound walk app


'a quiet position - orford ness' radio show curated by JrF & Pheobe riley Law (framework)


'scores for listening - the rain doesn't bother us' (engraved glass)


'instamatic  |  aarhus' (engraved glass)


'star farm parallel' & 'sound of the world turning' (as part of verdure engraved - north accent issue) (engraved glass)


'waiting # 3' - video/sound work (available on vimeo)


'waiting # 2' - video/sound work (available on vimeo)


'audible silence | tate modern' (engraved glass)


'(ghost) owl | six years (engraved glass)


'(ghost) owl' (engraved glass)


'waiting # 1' - video/sound work (available on vimeo)


'snew  |  isu' (engraved glass)


'stereo lab' (engraved glass)


'light (field)' - video/sound work (available on vimeo)


'our, of the olive tree + soundtrack for a postcard # 1' postcard contact microphone w/ 3 inch cdr - limited artist edition of 10 


'score for nissei theatre' graphic score by Pheobe riley Law, realisation (engraved glass)


'waiting / compact - score for listening #78' (audio stream, fresh yorkshire aires)


'fjallsarlon' video/sound work (available on vimeo)


'gunnuhver' video/sound work (available on vimeo)


'the boathouse sessions' with Paul Burwell, Chris Gladwin & Espen Jensen (engraved glass)


'dissolves | kockums factory, malmo (engraved glass)


'estonian strings' (engraved glass) 


'portable music (three scores) (touchline)


'movere | soundtrack for an unfocused image # 1' - online sound annexation project, Acoustic Cameras - april 2016 - ongoing


article on my work with photographic scores in Source Photographic Review


three 'scores for listening' (photographic scores) featured in 'underscore' book of graphic scores (book)


'dissolves' (book / cd set)


'beam  |  charcoal' (book / cd set)


'formica aquilonia, sweden' track on cd with book 'animal music - sound and song' (strange attractor)


'if you so wish.... (scores for listening)' (engraved glass)


'dissolves: the eating of fruit' (engraved glass)


'room tone' (engraved glass)


'the bright work # 2 - still on the littoral' (engraved glass)


'a quiet position  |  (resonances) leigh woods' (engraved glass)


'sur le dessous à l'intérieur | on beneath the inside' (engraved glass)


'voyages ultrasons' on 'a quiet position - screened # 1' (engraved glass)


'a quiet position - emplacement' (engraved glass)


'archives - burning a million soundtrack' (. point engraved)


'audible silence - victoria baths' (engraved glass)


'archives # 8: aumilieude (earlier works)' (engraved glass)


'audible silence: Tate Modern, sleeping & waking' (download for Tate Modern)


'etroite, in polarised light' (engraved glass)


'elargir, with early light' (engraved glass)


'suketchi' (engraved glass)


'(suketchi) +' (engraved glass)


'beautiful women forest | shiyan nyonon jurin sign' (tiny tiny press)


'resonances | locales: korea' (engraved glass)


'instamatics, waiting' (engraved glass)


'heygate' (engraved glass)


'movere (estonia)' (engraved glass)


'instamatic: blue mountians' (for Touch radio)


'instamatic: czech republic' (engraved glass)


'notre dame de la chapelle, bruxelles' (cathedrals)


'instamatic: belgium' (engraved glass)


'instamatic: austria' (engraved glass)


'instamatic: snowdonia' (engraved glass)


'birdcage wallpaper' - with Hankil Ryu (engraved glass)


'bathroom then barn, estonia' (winds measure)


'estonian strings' (gruenrekorder)


‘resonances di topolo / resonances de lumiere’ - audio cd (engraved glass)


'four objects' - audio cd (engraved glass)


'instamatic # 8 - portugal' (engraved glass)


'between gestures' - free download (engraved glass / compost & height)


‘....until now - photographic scores until 2010’ - pdf publication (engraved glass)


'sonata for clarinet & nodar' - audio cd (engraved glass / nodar binaural)


'dawn chorus - north & south banks' - audio cd (engraved glass)


'trammals' - with Barry Chabala (engraved glass)


‘instamatic # 6 - prague’ (engraved glass)


‘the bright work’ - audio cd + photo card (engraved glass)


‘....audible silence’ edition – audio cd + photo cards (engraved glass)


(nb. an extract from this edition also appears on the Wire Tapper cd given away free with the April 2009 issue of The Wire magazine)


‘the view from the studio window’ – audio cd + photo card (engraved glass)


‘drying rack and cabinet door’ – track on compost & height compilation volume 3 (compost & height)


‘instamatic series’ – volumes 1 – 4 – series of 3 audio cds + photo cards (engraved glass)


‘pocklington canal & wansford beck’ – audio cd (engraved glass)


 ‘field recordings volume 21’ – audio cd + digital download (engraved glass)


‘generator pieces 2727807’ – audio cd + digital download (generator projects / engraved glass)


Featured on ‘Autumn Leaves’ release to accompany book on sound art by Angus Carlisle (gruenrekorder)


‘two events’ – audio cd (engraved glass)


Text piece ‘silence’ for ‘Then the silence increased’ exhibition catalogue – Manchester, University of Salford – May 2007


‘Global ear – Hull’ – article in ‘The Wire’ magazine 


2 hour radio program on the film music of Toru Takemitsu – Resonance FM 2006


Field recordings Volume 20 - East Yorkshire & Germany 2006 – audio cd (engraved glass)


ime / ias - intuitive music ensemble (JrF, the female, Toshi Nakamura, Tamaru, Mark Wastell) - audio cd (self released) - download reissue (engraved glass)


 ‘Hull on earth (Jez Riley)’ – radio documentary on resonance fm radio 2003



workshops / lecturer / tutor positions:


workshop - murmuration #5, Scotland - May-June 2024

workshop - west dean - September 2023


workshop - murmuration #4, Scotland - June 2023


talks - Divfuse Gallery, London - April 2023


talks - BIMM Bristol - November 2022


workshop - West Dean - September 2022


talk / workshop - ArtBomb / Roar residency - July 2022


workshop - murmuration # 3, Scotland - June 2022


talk - Belfast Queens University - March 2022

talk - Stockholm University of Arts, Sweden - October 2021

workshop - West Dean - September 2021


talk / workshop - Robert Schumann Hochschule Dusseldorf, Germany - March 2020


talk / workshop - Acoustic Ecologies Festival, Attenborough Centre, UK - January 2020


talk - Stockholm University of Arts, Sweden - October 2019


talk - Lincoln University - October 2019

talk / workshop - Bartlett School of Architecture, London - October 2019

workshop - walthamstow wetlands, London - October 2019


talk - KonstART, Sweden - September 2019


talk - Harnosand, Sweden - September 2019


workshop / talk - airy residency, vasternorrland - September 2019 

workshop for DRAF resident artists, Wysing Arts Centre - July 2019

workshop - murmuration # 2, Scotland - June 2019


talk / workshop - york st johns university - november 2018


performative lecture - Plasy, Czech Republic - October 2018


performative lecture - Iklectik gallery, London - September 2018


talk - SAE institute, London - September 2018


talk - SoundPro 18, London - September 2018


talk - Whitworth Gallery, Manchester - August 2018


workshop - Strange and Charmed, Wendover - August 2018


talk / workshop - SSW (Scottish Sculpture Workshop) - August 2018


talk - Blue Dot Festival, Jodrell Bank - July 2018


workshop - murmuration # 1, Scotland - June 2018


talk / workshop - Royal Danish Academy of Arts, Copenhagen - June 2018


talk - Rytmisk Musikkonservatorium, Copenhagen - June 2018


talk - paradise air, Japan - April 2018


talk - leeds beckett uni - Feb 2018


talk - Leeds College of Music - November 2017


talk / sound walk - Copenhagen Culture House - November 2017


talk / workshop - Leeds University (fine art) - November 2017


talk - Leeds University (film) - October 2017


talk - Lincoln University - October 2017


talk - Punkt Festival, Norway - September 2017


talk - Norsk filmlydforening, Norway - September 2017


informal workshop with artists - Allerdale Film Farm, Cumbria, Aug 2017


tutor / field trip leader (with Chris Watson) - Northumberland, June 2017


tutor / field trip leader (with Chris Watson) - sweden, May 2017


guest lecture - Sheffield University - March 2017


guest lecture - London College of Communication, CRisAP - February 2017


guest lecture - Goldsmiths University - February 2017


guest lecture - Manchester University - February 2017


guest lecture - Leeds Beckett University - February 2017


workshop - turntable composition, Hull - Feb - Nov 2017


guest lecture - Huddersfield University - November 2016


guest lecture - Leeds Beckett University - October 2016


guest lecture - Lincoln University - October 2016


guest lecture / workshop leader - Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Denmark - October 2016


tutor / field trip leader (with Chris Watson) - field recording / sound art trip, Orford Ness, UK, July 2016


tutor / course leader (with Chris Watson) - field recording trip, south west Iceland, June 2016


tutor / course leader (with Chris Watson) - field recording trip, Northumbria, May 2016


hydrophone workshop - Soundcamp, Stave Hill Ecology Park, London, May 2016


guest lecture / workshop / crits - Royal College of Music, London, March 2016


talk - Sonic Research Forum, Goldsmiths, London, March 2016


guest talk / workshop - Copenhagen, Denmark, March 2016


guest lecture - Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, february 2016


guest lecture - Hull University, UK, November 2015


guest lecture - Lincoln University, UK, November 2015


guest lecture - Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, October 2015


guest lecture / workshop - Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, July 2015


tutor / course leader (with Chris Watson) - field recording trip, south west Iceland, June 2015


tutor / course leader (with Chris Watson) - field recording trip, Northumbria, May 2015


guest lecture - Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, Feb 2015


guest lecture / group crits / one to ones - Newcastle Uni, Feb 2015


tutor / course leader (with Chris Watson) - sound / field recording module, Uni of the West of Scotland, Ayr, Jan 2015


guest lecture - lincoln university, November 2014


guest lecture - Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, October 2014


guest lecture / listening walk - Newcastle Uni, Newcastle, September 2014


tutor / course leader - field recording trip, north east Iceland, June 2014


tutorials, talk & playback session - Oxford Brookes Uni, November 2013


tutor - a quiet position - the act & art of field recording, South Hill Park, UK, November 2013


lecture - field recording, lincoln uni, November 2013


tutor - a quiet position: victoria baths / elizabeth gaskill house, manchester, uk - September 2013


tutor - a quiet position: sardinia, 4 day field recording workshop, sardinia, July 2013


tutor / course leader - field recording trip, snaefellsness, Iceland, June 2013


talk - Chelsea college of Art and Design, London, may 2013


tutor - 2 day field recording workshop, malmo, sweden, may 2013


lecture - 'audible silence', TEDx, hull, april 2013


tutor - a quite position workshop, CRIaAP, LCC, london, april 2013


tutor - one day listening / field recording workshop, tottenham marshes, London - march 2013


tutor - Touch records weekend sound course - december 2012


guest lecture - lincoln university - november 2012


guest lecture - association of motion picture sound, london - november 2012


tutor - field recording workshop, Sweden - October 2012


tutor - field recording workshop @ wired lab, australia - september 2012


tutor - 'a quiet position - a weekend workshop on the act & art of field recording' @ Soundfjord, London - June 2012


tutor - wildeye field recording course, Sweden - May 2012


Regular tutor (alongside Chris Watson) - wildeye location sound recording courses (4 per year) - norfolk - ongoing


Guest lecture - EMS studios, Stockholm, Sweden - May 2012


Guest lecturer - Lincoln University - November 2011


Guest lecturer - culturelab, Newcastle University - November 2011


Guest lecturer – Newcastle University - 2009


Guest Lecturer – Leeds School of Contemporary art & Design - 2008


Guest lecturer – Hull school of art and design – 2008


Lecturer in intuitive composition – independent art school 2004


Guest lecturer – Hull school of art – 2003



residencies:


Residency with Pheobe riley Law - Paradise Air, Japan - October 2023


Residency with Pheobe riley Law - BrittenPears Arts - February 2022


Online residency - Riversssounds - April 2021

Residency with Pheobe riley Law - Steklenik, Ljubljana - March 2021


Residency (Airy), vasternorrland, Sweden - September 2019 


Residency with Pheobe riley Law at Paradise Air, Matsudo, Japan - April 2018


Residency with Pheobe riley Law at Agosto Foundation, Prague, Czech Rep. - Aug 2017


Residency with Pheobe riley Law at Stazione de Topolo, Italy - July 2014


Residency at Dordolla, Italy - April / May 2014


Residency with Pheobe riley Law at Stazione de Topolo, Italy - July 2013


Residency at Wired Lab, Australia - September 2012


Residency at Gift-Lab, Matusdai, Japan - July / August 2012


Residency / symposium - mellowcroft, wales - September 2011


Residency at stazione di topolo, Italy – July 2011


Residency at Mullae arts space, Seoul, Korea - June 2011


Residency at Nodar, Portugal – July 2010


Residency at Skolska 28, Czech republic - April 2010


Residency at Connected:09 festival, Pollau, Austria – July 2009


Residency at q-o2, Brussels, Belgium – June 2009


Residency at Moks, Estonia – May 2009


Artist in residence – Hull School of Art & Design 2008-2009


Residency @ Skolska 28, Prague – June 2008


Residency at Generator projects, Dundee + release of resulting cd / images – July / August 2007


Residency @ Skolska 28, Prague – May 2007


Residency @ Hull Time Based Arts - 2002



Curatorial work / on-going projects:


'murmuration' - series of field trips / gatherings focused on located sound


'audible silence' @ blue dot festival - a series of talks & peformances - Jodrell Bank, UK - July 2018


engraved glass (label)


verdure engraved (arts zine)



a quiet position  (blog & facebook group) – online resource exploring located sound, field recording, sonic architecture & compositional arcs.


c-director - Sound and Environment symposium, Hull University 2017


CGAS (improvising ensemble)


seeds & bridges (on going)  – arts event series for Hull & East Yorkshire ( Arts Council England funded.) 


Founder / composer – ime (intuitive music ensemble) 2000 – on going


New Work Yorkshire – member of the advisory group 2006 – 2012



published articles: 


scores for listening (The Pluralist)

migration between nature and listening (land lines)


listening>sound art>cinematic distortion (on chorus)


scores for listening - with Pheobe riley Law (ós pressan)


reflections on 'Height of the Reeds' (Sonic Ideas journal)


life of listening (bandcamp daily)


on Womens Work (caught by the river)


score and sound, ethics and aesthetics (sunday tribune)


british library interview (british library)


good vibrations (culture vulture)


passion for listening (rycote)


matters of duration (source magazine)


in the field (uniform books)


personal | three positions (reflections on process)


on chalk (british library)


a closer relationship with listening (new york public library)


yoik (caught by the river)


architect of sound interview (architects of sound)


ear room interview (sound and music)


rycote cyclone article (rycote)


interview (maaheli)


interview (audio spotlight)


on tierce (another timbre)



in addition I have written for several music publications such as The Wire, Gramophone, Folk Roots, Rock 'n' Reel etc.







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