A selection of projects stemming from studying on the Audiovisual Cultures programme at Goldsmiths.
The works I produce as a musician have often been inspired by a sense of place and rooting within the city I live. Past experiences as an architecture student also inform my mapping of location, both in a physical and emotional sense.This project began to examine the ways in which these processes intersect, using VJ (video jockey) software as a tool to cross over the audio and visual.You can explore my audiovisual sketches alongside the accompanying essay in website form.
In this project I explored the practice of mapping through the related discourses of ‘place’ and ‘assemblage’, each with a corresponding video. I wondered if audiovisual performance could become a kind of mapping. The accompanying website invites participatory performance from the user. You may navigate different directions, combining various views of its content.
I presented this project as part of the Royal Musical Association’s ‘Music and/as Process Study Day’, you can watch a version of this presentation here.
This short ethnographic film was shot in South London with my friend and fellow musician Ed Freeth. I was keen to use the process of filming as a way to explore my own sense of place in London through the lens of another person’s music. Ed’s journey reflects my own, moving to London from the Midlands. Could filming Ed’s journey form a mirror to my own experience?
The content of this project has emerged through explorations of the city’s ‘edgelands’ and ‘luminous locales’. My work taps into the discourse of psychogeography, building on writings and film making in this field. I’ve created a series of compositions which bring audio-reactive live visual techniques into the processing of imagery, introducing transient and unstable visuals as a way of representing these places. You can explore my accompanying website along your own path, finding commonalities and dialogues between the collated fragments.
A documented live audiovisual composition which explains the narrative of a thought process. In this work I adopted an ephemeral and emotive method of architectural site analysis, using footage and sounds captured by the Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park. The composition explores feelings of distance and disconnection within the densely layered grain of London’s terrain.
An ongoing collaboration with Taiwanese artist Ya Hsuan Hsiao, collaging audiovisual material from Sheffield, Taipei and London. This project explores the themes of belonging, reflection and disorientation. By dealing with the relationship between different locations and places we reflect on our own identities and the concept of home.
Our audiovisual composition was most recently presented at Hypha Gallery as part of Uncanny Playgrounds, involving a performative text score.