To mark 75 years since D-Day, I produced a pair of ‘talking benches’ for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, sited at Bayeux and Portsmouth. Sit down and the bench tells you the stories of the men who landed in Normandy, in their own voices — a quiet, unexpected place to stop and listen, on the … Continued
In order to extend the life of the You The Audience project I came up with the concept of The Listening Exchange for The Royal Exchange Theatre. Designer Amanda Stoodley created the shed. The recordings made by Eloise Whitmore and me for You The Audience were remixed for this installation. Along the side of the … Continued
I created a radio receiver that used River Thames estuary water as an antenna for a piece of audio artwork by Cathy Fitzgerald. The receiver used a pump to fire the water up into a perspex tube. The salt from the brackish water meant radiowaves caused induction in the plumb of water, which could be … Continued
I designed and created a sound installation that brought back to life some old audio equipment using recordings of The Royal Exchange audiences to weave a tapestry of stories together from their memories and thoughts about theatre.
I designed and directed the creation the BBC Philharmonic Maestro, an installation that allowed BBC audiences to conduct the tempo and volume of a BBC Philharmonic Orchestra performance. I was responsible for conceiving the idea, building the first prototype and I directed the creation of the finished project, which was built by Magnetic North. The … Continued
During the 2012 World Cup I traveled around Kenyan rural villages with an inflatable TV screen and a sattelite truck and screened the football matches that would otherwise have been missed by these communities. With the support of Google, I took a team and the equipment to Kenya and toured around rural villiages during the … Continued
I devised and implemented “The Sound of the Space”, an evolving soundscape for The Spacewhich automatically reflected the site’s content. This worked by regularly sampling audio from the most recent media added to the site and creating a soundscape by mixing parts of that audio together, all automatically. With: Matthew Herbert
I lead the development and testing of a brainwave (EEG) controlled TV remote control which allowed less able viewers to change the television channel up or down and turn the television on and off.
I designed and built the Social Listening Table for Manchester ad agency BJL — a reception centrepiece in copper pipe and filament bulbs that quietly eavesdropped on the internet. Every client the agency looked after got its own engraved nameplate and bulb — ASDA, Ronseal, Swinton, Metrolink, Lambrini, Beaverbrooks and the rest. Whenever one of … Continued