acoustic interventions
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Report from participating in the 2020 OORtreders festival in Belgium where I built wind harps and conducted a 5 day workshop.
kom-pohst is a three part radio work by Eamon Sprod, Simon Whetham and myself commissioned by ABC RN’s Creative Audio Unit for Soundproof.
'transduction twentyfifteen', a short film featuring sound recordings by: John Grzinich, Simon Whetham, Eamon Sprod, Jim Haynes, Rostislav Rekuta, Dawn Scarfe and Yiorgis Sakellariou.
Report from the 'Sounding Gdansk' workshop held during the Soundplay festival in Gdansk Poland, June 2014
A collection of stories from six arts who have different experiences regarding sound and listening in the Baltic States.
'sound seed transmissions' radio program originally broadcast on Nieringa FM, now available for listening.
During the week of April 11-17th, I spent the week in an area of Nuremberg known as Muggenhof, as part of a mini-Tuned City event.
What you hear is a live sound mix made in my backyard using both live mics and contact mics, run simultaneously through a portable mixer. No post-processing or composing was done. The video was edited from hand held material recorded on a cheap panasonic digital camera. More videos available on […]
I finally managed to visit a curious location in a forest in south Estonia and discovered that it indeed was one of the former soviet nuclear missile silos. As I’ve seen, most missile bases were mobile launching pads for missiles that were stored on trucks in bunkers. In this location […]
Last week MoKS hosted Klima, a 5 day performance event conducted by polymedia artist Mike Hentz. Apart from numerous actions, excursions and exercises there was a good deal of attention on working with sound. Mike requested the non-renovated part of MoKS be used somehow so we decided to fill it […]
Sounds and images collected from an urban exploration trip to the former TEC power station in Riga Latvia.
more archive material… this time from my first visit to the Stazione Topolo festival 1999, in Friuli Italy, just over the border from Slovenia. I developed and presented the first edition of the Resonance Ensemble project. This is a recording of the installation I made using local ceramic roof tiles […]
Extended greetings and creativity to all in the coming year. I passed the turning tide with a great group of old and new friends, in and out of doors. This recording was made on the first of a three day NoYears event held at MoKS. While drifting into the empty […]
Live in-situ sound action made in the hollow metal shell of an electrical substation on lake Peipsi near the russian border. The participants are Eamon Sprod (tarab), Maksims Shentelevs, Kaspars Kalnins and myself.
revenant : podra With Yannick Dauby, John Grzinich, Maksims Shentelevs Live unedited recorded made on the evening of June 13th, 2007 in southeastern Estonia. It was mid-June and the white nights of the north were in full swing. We set out looking for a location to explore and ended up […]
sound workshop for youth, rev. 3 Last week I gave a sound workshop which was part of a summer theater camp for youth in Mooste. The camp was held for the first time so there was plenty to be learned especially when trying to collaborate with the other workshops (drama, […]
Radio show production based on some of my recordings in Nodar during my residency at Binauralmedia. This show was broadcast live on Resonance FM in London on Sunday June 8th, 2008. I have now made the show will also be available to listen to: /*framework*/ – phonography / field recording; […]
This past weekend I was in Riga to visit the Sound Forest festival. I could write about my impressions of the festival but I won’t. While there were a few good performances I enjoyed more the side activities that came with visiting friends in Riga. As is often the case […]
In April of 2008 I spent a month at the Binauralmedia residency in Nodar, Portugal. My interest was to carry out a sonic and visual survey of the landscape around the local village through a series of site-specific recording sessions. In particular I compared and contrasted the geographic lines caused […]
what is the sound of 21st century folk music? A workshop and performance event that took place in the Estonian National Museum in 2008
Riga Sound Locations was a four day workshop that took place at various spaces around the city of Riga, Latvia. The project starts with the concept of site-specific artistic activity while integrating contemporary sound recording practices that cover areas of ‘performance’, ‘field recording’, ‘improvisation’ and ‘documentation’. With the site being […]
