1 // Artworks / Installations / Performances
“Museum of Portable Meadows” – installation, at Meadows Day, Low Way Farm, North Pennines, UK. 13/07/24 (Part of Calling The Curlew Project for Tees-Swale Naturally Connected.)
“Calling The Curlew” Project. Series of podcasts made with young people, farmers, ecologists, engagement officers, trainees. North Pennines, UK. 04-07/2024
“Dawn Chorus at Low Way Farm and Parkend Wood”, Middleton-in-Teesdale, North Penines (with young people) 11-14/05/24
“Breeding Waders at Balderhead Reservoir”, Baldersdale, North Pennines (with young people)17-20/04/24
“Research Bursary from NECVAN” to explore the North Pennines and shadow Dr. Ruth Starr-Keddle on field work. 03/2023
“Rootless Connections” AI prompts and sound. With Humira Imtiaz. This involved members of Stockton LGBTQ+ community and people from Kotli, Azad Kashmir. It was screened at the Uk Asian Film Festival and in India. 01/2023
“Contagion of Kindness” interactive work made with cables.gl, commissioned by and exhibited at Arc Stockton. 01/22
“Our Ghosts Are Gathering @ Ooze and Flow” Experimental Electronics and electroacoustic performance @GAS Contemporary, North Shields, UK. Commissioned by Constance Humphries and Arts Council England (22/02/2020)
”Overmorrow” “Gnollstice” “After Realms” “Polar Lodge” “Dark Elder” Cassette Tape releases on bandcamp. Funded by “Help Musicians Fund”. 03/2019 – 10/2020
Underwater Gallery – Museum of Portable Sound (June 2019)
“Wreck 1” – Wreck One project, Abject Gallery, Breeze Creatives, @ Late Shows, 19.
“Clusters” led sculpture / installation at “Inside Skin” Great North Museum, 2018. Commission for Institute of Cellular Medicine / Wellcome Trust.
“Hybrid Cultures / Borderless Practice” Installations, book and live performance featuring musicians invited over from Korea following a research visit to S. Korea (February 2017).
“Pelagics” – large scale video projection and multichannel sound performance at St. John the Baptist Church, Newcastle. “Bio-Vortex” performed at NIME’16, Queensland Conservatorium, Brisibane, Australia.
“Gold Lines Are Mineral Veins” at Occasion Festival, Mining Institute, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
“Consolidator” for Thinking Digital at “Betagrams”, New- bridge Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne May 22, 2014 – Saturday, May 24/05/2014).
“Morse Decoder” at cARTography, Globe Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. 04.14
“Sound Mirrors / Stethoscopes” at Blakelaw Library, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
“Symphony of Atlas” – Capsule Projects, Opening of Birmingham City Library
“ArCCADE” – Armstrong Building, Newcastle University
“Future Brass” at Brass Festival ’12, Durham
“Black Sea of Trees” at Render’12, Arches (Newcastle University outreach space) & Dance City, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. (Following a research visit to Japan exploring the work of Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno and his son Yoshito Ohno, Yokohama, Japan.
2 // Selected Presentations and Papers
“Resonant Hermeneutics” at Resonant Worlds: Sound Art and Science, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 29.09.17.
“Networked Microtopias: South Korea & UK”, Sounding Out The Space 2017, Dublin, Ireland.
“Sun Tongs / Psychoheliophysics” @ ISACS17, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland.
“One Knob To Rule Them All: Minimalist Interfaces For Maximal Expression” @ New Interfaces For Musical Expression (NIME 2016), Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University, South Brisbane, Australia. (Won best paper at conference)
“Gold Lines Are Mineral Veins – Exploring Archives and Collections Through Revisitation and Metrical Rituals”, Exploring The Extraordinary – Conference 7, 2015.
“Exploring First World War Technology Through Revisitation, Workshops, and Contemporary Digital Arts Practice” present- ed at AHRC First World War Symposium, 15.04.15 “Betagrams: Maker Culture & The Aesthetics of Prototyping” (with Gabriella Arrigoni)
“Musical Meshworks: From Networked Musical Performance To Cultures Of Exchange” presented at Designing Interactive Systems ‘14, Vancouver, Canada.
3 // Workshops & Teaching
Raspberry Pi, Digital Making, Gateshead Library.
CV: Uncontrolled Voltages for Practice Makes Practice @ The Newbridge Project (2017) Bio-Vortex at Piksel15, Norway. 21.11.15
DIY Hydrophone Building (part of Transmit/Receive at Discovery Museum 25.09.15) Repurposing World War One (WW1) Technology Residency With Newcastle Arts Development Team. A range of workshops and interventions exploring WW1 tech in relation to music production. Blakelaw / Fawdon. 07/13 – 02/14
Sun Tongs // Psychoheliophysics, musical instruments driven by sunlight taught at Piksel13, Norway. 11.13
6 // Education
2011 – MRes. Digital Media (Specialising in the creation of digital musical instruments for live performance) Culture Lab, Newcastle University
2008 – Physical Computing
(Building Digital Musical Instruments)
K3 – School of Arts and Communication, Malmö University, Sweden
Studied Physical Computing using Arduino
2007 – Senior Fellowship
(Film For Live Performance and Contemporary Dance) Digital City, Teeside University, Middlesbrough