Wave Machine (2.0) is a web-based interactive app that produces a live sonification of real-time sea wave data. Users can choose to listen to site data from a network of marine observation buoys located around the coast of England and Wales.
This piece consists of a field-recording made in Holywell Coombe, an area of countryside on the outskirts of Folkestone town which is part of the Folkestone to Etchinghill Escarpment SSSI.
A steadily oscillating band-pass filter explores the variety and interplay of sounds concurrent in the landscape (from aircraft to insects) as it passes through the frequencies within which each sound operates.
A similar use of this technique can be heard in the previous work Green Language.
Holywell Coombe (Sweeping Filter) was broadcast on Radiophrenia, Glasgow CCA, September 2023.
This piece uses a short field recording made at the Bronze Age copper mines at Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. As the original recording repeats, it is side-chained to a series of automated filters of varying sensitivity, transforming the sound of dripping from the limestone tunnels into an array of synthetic voices. On the third repetition the source audio is muted, leaving just the synthetic signals.
Broadcast on Radiophrenia, Glasgow CCA, September 2023.
Lithoscapes is an interactive library of acoustical Impulse Response (IR) recordings made at important geological sites within the Kent Downs AONB. At each location a recording was made of a balloon being popped. The sonic information encapsulates the acoustic space and is processed to create a reverb effect that can be reproduced and applied to other sounds. The app allows the user to compose patterns of sound and play them into their selected lithoscape.
Continue reading LithoscapesExploring the mysterious energies and effects of sounds invoked by ancient symbols and sacred geometry.
A graphic score modelled on the ‘The Sanctuary’ – a long-lost timber and stone circle at Overton Hill, Avebury in Wiltshire – excavated by Maud Cunnington in 1930.
