Other Stuff
exhibitions / instruments / videos / workshops / installations / events
![]() | 5/9/23 | The Plank workshop for Eastern Ear, Guildhall, Norwich Explorative and playful workshop programme for those interested in improvisation, sound and group music-making. Artists, musicians and audiences of all experiences and abilites welcome. Instrument making workshop with found objects and contact mics. | [info] |
![]() | 16/3/23 | Book launch for Transacting as Art, Design and Architecture: A Non-Commercial Market, online. Edited by Marsha Bradfield, Cinzia Cremona, Amy McDonnell and Eva Sajovic I took part in the art market in July 2015, with a Music By The Metre kiosk, documentation of which is included in the book. | [book] |
25 – 29/10/21 | Aldeburgh Young Musicians: Experimental Music Workshops, Snape Maltings, Suffolk A week of workshops for young musicians, exploring graphic scores, composition, improvisation, foley, field recording and listening. With Cath Roberts, Dee Byrne, Sam Andreae and Nathan Gregory. | ||
10 – 13/9/22 | Errorcamp, Lake District, Cumbria Research, workshops, performances & social weekend with live coders & electronic musicians. | ||
![]() | 29/7/20 | Noise Quest 7: Lauren Sarah Hayes / Bell Lungs / Remi Fox-Novák / Jonathan Higgins Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 19/7/20 | Programmable Acoustic Bass Banjo Instrument module for the Mammoth Beat Organ. Presented at NIME 2020. | videos: demo making |
![]() | 8/7/20 | Noise Quest 6: SERF / Miri Kat / Colin Webster / Tom Mudd Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 17/6/20 | Noise Quest 5: Ain Bailey / Me, Claudius / TYPE (The Yorkshire Programming Ensemble) / Sharon Gal Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 13/5/20 | Noise Quest 4: Shelly Knotts / Void Hands / TVO / Andrew Lisle Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 30/4/20 | Noise Quest 3: Li Yilei / Leon Trimble / GD Live code archive set / Daphnellc Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 16/4/20 | The Gävle Goat – live stream experimental and ambient music from Sweden & UK Slim Vic & Graham Dunning / Annie Tådne / AKB / Bredbeddle Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 9/4/20 | Noise Quest 2: Mariam Rezaei / Yaxu & hellocatfood / Tom Richards / Loula Yorke Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 27/3/20 | Noise Quest 1: Phantom Chips / Jo Thomas / My Panda Shall Fly / Katie Gerardine O’Neill Live stream event | [videos] |
![]() | 23/3/20 | Modified records exhibition, Sound Records, Stroud Some modified records on display – normally used for Mechanical Techno or other live sets, or some just made to look nice. | [photo] |
![]() | 13/12/19 | Tinderbox Lab Workshops: Mechanical Techno, Edinburgh Workshop making modified records and playing them on the MT setup. | |
1/12/19 | On Turntablism Article about current practice and practitioners of experimental turntablism for Wire Magazine | ||
![]() | 1/11/19 | Noisevember 2019 – A new noise every day Daily short videos: noises, instruments, cutups, experiments | [videos] |
![]() | 17/5/19 | Algomech 2019 residency, workshop, exhibition and live set, Sheffield During the residency I made a new video piece from different inconsistent rhtyhms slipping out of synchronisation. | [video] |
![]() | 5/3/19 7/2/19 | Modified Records / Vinyl Destruction workshops for Estorick Gallery, London Two workshops using turntables and records | [video] |
15/12/18 | Hack the Mammoth Beat Organ + Hackoustik Xmas party. Iklektik, London. An opportunity for people to have a go on the machine and test out new ideas. | ||
![]() | 20/10 – 3/11/18 | The Ghost Tide, Thames-Side studios, Woolwich, London Exhibition curated by Monika Bobinska and Sarah Sparkes – showing my cast Stone Tapes. | |
![]() | 22/8/18- 23/5/19 | It’s A Mixed Bag – radio show all on vinyl, from 199 Radio, later Threads. Episodes: 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 | [audio] |
1/10/18 | Mammoth Beat Organ videos Three videos about the project made by Michael Forrest, demonstrating the machine, a making of interview and our debut gig at Supersonic Festival. | [demo] [making] [gig] | |
1/12/17 | Deconstruct Yourself, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill-on-Sea Leslie Deere, Tom Richards, Joanne Armitage, Graham Dunning: live performances, video and installations. | [preview] | |
30/9/17 | Tusk Festival exhibition, Workspace Gallery, Newcastle installation of Real Data video as part of a group show. | [video] | |
![]() | 28/9/17 | Museum of Peripheral Collections, Le Bon Accueil, Rennes, France Solo exhibition of various collections, a diorama, album of recordings, tape swap project and live performance at the opening. | [photos] |
20/9/17 | Emotion and the Tech(no)ody, Austrian Cultural Forum, London Groups show including my cast Stone Tapes. | ||
![]() | 8/8/17 | Mix series for New New World Radio (Moscow) Four radio shows, each 2hrs long with a different focus: Scratchy improv, dream sounds, odd electronics, noise. | [tracklists] |
![]() | 15/7 – 31/12/17 | Global Forest 2017 Exhibition Group exhibition showing new video and installation works made during a residency in the town. | |
![]() | 15/6/17 | Schéma, Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France Culmination of my residency at the gallery, showing new works and playing a live show with Sascha Brosamer doing a grammophone set. | |
![]() | 12/5/17 | Obsolète, Galerie Paradise, Nantes, France Exhibition of existing work, plus live performances from me and Leslie Deere | [video] |
15/4/17 | Dismantle Yourself, Somerset House, London Live: Ewa Justka, Algobabez, dtub and me. DJ: Chloe Freida (Alien Jams) Lasers: Jason Haebich | [preview] [photo] [gif] | |
![]() | 3/4/17 | Michael Forrest – Computer Screen – Mechanical Techno remix Remixing Michael’s track with sampes from the original pressed to dubplates – the video made by michael also works as a demonstration of the process. | [video] |
![]() | 24/3/16 | Empty Content Machine installation for ReROOTed, Humber Street Gallery Hull Automated mechanisms creating an overlaid abstract video projection. | [video] |
![]() | 15/12/17 | Obsolete Desire: group show curated by Lisa McKendrick Exhibiting a listening post for composition “Aggregate” made in nearby Balfron Tower. | [release] |
1/11/16 | AAS: Chaotic Good: Crabhead / Collaborative Princess / Lumpy Oracle, Gallery North, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Three room show for AAS: multiple video works, sculptural installations, sound, interactive monolith, live stream. Opened with four hour performance, edited through audience interraction with the installation and subsequently re-broadcast into the exhibition space. | [video] | |
3/9/15 | Mechanical Laboratory of Antimatter, Fort Process Festival, Newhaven A day-long performance installation with Henry Liam Collins, Leslie Deere and Sam Underwood – part of the festival in an old sea defence on the south coast. | ||
![]() | 31/8/16 | AAS – “The Heartbeat of Kong, or More Mouse Bites” at The Royal Geographical Societies Annual International Video/conference paper exploring the deleuzoguattarian concept of Holey Space. | [video] |
![]() | 31/5/16 | AAS: Farming the Young / On the Mirrors of Yukon Performance at IMT Gallery, London, plus video piece and soundtrack tape. | [video] [release] |
![]() | 19/4/16 | Rotor Station A, B, C – for Flatpack Film Festival Installation of some small versions of the Mechanical Techno setup. I never developed the installation version any further so this was the only showing. | |
![]() | 22/11/15 | Mechanical Techno Demonstration video Demoing the setup – made at the end of a residency at Machines Room with Michael Forrest. | [video] |
1/11/15 | Machines Room Residency Maker residency at Machines Room, london, developing some tech for mechanical techno. Talks, live event and exhibition as part of the residency. | [archive] | |
![]() | 14-28/9/15 | Closet Music – Music for Imaginary Performance curated by Janet Oates Showing a piece called Twenty Nine of the Best Recordings I Never Got Round To Making, consisting of empty tape boxes with titles on the spines. | |
11/7/15 | TransActing: A Market of Values, Critical Practice Chelsea, London Music By The Metre kiosk – making spools of abstract tape music on demand. | ||
8/5/15 | Roadside Museum | An exhibition curated by John O’Hare & Gordon Culshaw A dubplate and a spool of tape left buried for a year, alongside other artists works, were exhumed and exhibited again, this time in Leeds. | ||
![]() | 5/2/15 | Untitled (Translation 1) – exhibited in London: Sonic Fragment, The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand. Curated by Justyna Burzynska. Video made with a rotating collage and automated music. | [video] |
![]() | 5-9/2/15 | CORRESPONDENCE, Prestamex House, Brighton Tape-swap installation with Embla Quickbeam (Rowan Forristier-Waker). | [photo] [photo] |
![]() | 4/9/15 | Election Cut 02 collage shown at IM’Ten, IMT Gallery, London Collage shown in a group show. Part of an ongoing series of colourful, abstract collages made with cut up record sleeves on a 21cm square base. Sometimes used for album covers. | [collage] [collage] [collage] |
6/7/15 | Ghost in the Machine Music, Reactor Halls, Primary, Nottingham Exhibition and performances I put together with me, Leslie Deere, Tom Mudd, Shelley Parker, tom Richards. Also a mixtape. | [mixtape] [photo] | |
![]() | 9-30/10/14 | For Posterity – exhibition at The Auricle, Christchurch, New Zealand Found footage of a family’s audio diary from the early 1960s, plus documents of my attempts to contact them to reunite them with the tapes. | |
1/10/14 | AAS: Lammas Drone Silo, for Hackney Wicked festival. Large scale installation/performance with sub bass drone soundsystem, chicken feed, steam, blacklight, lasers and strapping an audience member into a stretcher. | [photos] [video] | |
![]() | 12/9-6/10/14 | Roadside Museum | An exhibition curated by John O’Hare & Gordon Culshaw A dubplate and a spool of tape left buried for a year, alongside other artists works, were exhumed and exhibited in Venn Projects, Blackpool. | |
![]() | 26/7/14 | AAS: Holectics – Team 1/2/3 Workshop and video installation for Fear+Trembling_, Five Years Gallery, London | [archive] |
![]() | 23/7/14 | The Radiophonic Laboratory of Antimatter Workshopping an audio translation of Situationist Pinot Gallizio’s ‘industrial’ painting process into abstract audio. Broadcast for SoundFjord / concertzender Radio in Netherlands. | |
![]() | 27/2/14 | sound.art, Tin Tabernacle, London Group exhibition, showing a version of And A Word Carries Far: an installation using reverb of a space to alter a participant’s voice as they read from a text. | |
09/13 – 03/20 | Experimental Sound Art, Mary Ward Centre, London An evening class in various aspects of soundmaking, installation, recording and performance. | [archive] [audio] | |
![]() | 13/4/13 | Residency, open studio, workshop and performance at The Penhouse, Manchester Making new collages & audio recordings on a week long residency. | [release] [video] |
12/6/12 | Crystal World Laboratory participant Participant in the 5 day Crystal World open laboratory, which was curated by Martin Howse, Jonathan Kemp and Ryan Jordan. | [archive] | |
6/6/12 | Music By The Metre A audio analogy to Situationist Giuseppe Pinot-Gallizio’s industrial paintings, also sold by the metre. Market stall, recordings and a video. An ongoing project. | [video] | |
![]() | 15/3/12 | For Posterity, SoundFjord, London Found footage of a family’s audio diary from the early 1960s, plus documents of my attempts to contact them to reunite them with the tapes. First showing. | [audio] [photo] [photo] |
![]() | 2/12/11 | Fractal Meat on a Spongy Bone – NTS Radio Radio show on NTS. Intially fortnightly on a friday morning with lots of live guests and features, now in the early hours of Tuesday mornings usually with a continuous mix of odd sounds, mostly brand new releases. | [archive] [blog] |
1/11/11 | From Oramics to Electronica – The History of Electronic Music, Science Museum I was one of 12 musician co-curators who helped advise museum staff on items to include in this exhibition. | ||
![]() | 8/9/11 | Loss Shines a Light on What Remains, AC Institute, New York An exhibition of some of my installations at this NYC gallery – including inviting people to smash up reocrds I’d initially bought for DJing with. | [photo] [photo] |
10/8/11 | Your Luton Symphony – public installation for Luton Festival 10 turntables with different field recordings from around Luton, playable by visitors individually or in combination. | [audio] [photo] [photo] | |
![]() | 11/7/11 | Y Gwylwyr (Sentinels) – installation for RHÔD 2011 Artist group show and mini-residency. My installation was turning two bird houses into a big solar-powered stereo listening device. | [audio] [photo] |
![]() | 20/4/11 | And a word carries far, installation aboard the Light Vessel 21, Gillingham Kent During this short residency I made a piece using the reverberant air tanks from the ship’s fog horn system – reader’s voices would be played back inside the tank, picked up and returned to their ears. The book is Joseph Conrad’s Lord Jim. | [audio] [photo] [photo] |
![]() | 3/3/11 | Time Pieces – group show at Peter Scott Gallery, University of Lancaster showing my installation Untitled (Tape Ghosts) | |
2010 – 2014 | Open Sound Group – workshop series and netlabel Improv workshop for artists working with sound, which led to further worksops. I released the recordings from them all, and later releases by other artists too. | [archive] | |
![]() | 17/9/10 | Visitor Centre installation / Rea Garden artist in residence Two month residency in a derelict plot of a former shellac warehouse in Digbeth Birmingham: DIY archaeology, sound installation, audio guide, workshops. | [archive] |
![]() | 2/9/10 | A Site of No Special interest – group exhibition, Solihul Arts Complex Former atists working on the Rea Garden site, including my installation Three Artifacts, made of 3 field recording dubplates on record players. | [photo] |
8/7/10 | Mill24 – group show for residents of Salford’s Islington Mill over 24 hours I made sounds and did experiments in and around my studio, documented it over time and did a little performance at the end. | [archive] | |
6/4/10 | Untitled (Tape Ghosts) installation – for Lost Language exhibition, Kraak, Manchester 3 channel audio from 3 modified tape units, playing back a composition of home recordings of people singing from found tapes. | [photo] | |
1/7/09 | Long Railing – video shown at Krumm, Outlet, Manchester Running a drum stick along a long railing – like a physical score in the landscape. | [video] |