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Part facsimile sketchbook, part manifesto, Noise Map collects recent drawings, texts and photographs.
It contains essays on noise, Musique Concrete, field recording, the correspondences between music and architecture and between sound and image.
Written during residencies in Amsterdam and Barcelona, this text explores the relations between art and politics and traces the development of the work "Shotgun Architecture". It was included in "Site of Sound 2: Of Architecture and the Ear" (Labelle & Martinho eds.)
Written for “Music, Space and Architecture”. Academy of Architecture, Amsterdam. 2012. This text alternates descriptions of sounds from the artist's archive with comments on techniques and approaches to field recording and listening.
Produced during a residency at Overtoon, Brussels, "Siren Song" investigates the place of sirens in the sonic environment with text and image. A version of this text appears in the Q-O2 publication “The Middle Matter: sound as interstice” 2019.
This paper was presented at the Media Art Histories 2019 conference Re:sound in Aalborg, Denmark. It looks at sound work in urban space by myself and others, focussing on one of my favourite forms - that of the audio walk, my current doubts about this form, and contrasts this form with other approaches including the Soundtrackcity project "Sonic West".
As an artist working often with audio walks I often have the nagging thought: does using headphones to present sound in public space immerse the listener in a bubble, separating them from their surroundings? This research looks at the form of the audio walk and the possibilities of using binaural recording, narrative devices and locative media to prioritise engagement with the environment. In addition it documents the re-activation of an older work of mine in a app using geo-location and it collects documentation of a number of walk-pieces including scripts, audio files, maps and other background information. Lectorate Music, Education and Society, Koninklijk Conservatorium, Den Haag.