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Sound made material
The theory becomes more useful when it has to survive contact with speakers, public space, broken electronics and actual acts of listening.
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Against manifestationism
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This question - so often disregarded as a thought experiment for bored undergraduates - unsettles more...
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Sonic object mapping
If sonic objects are real, if they emerge, act, and withdraw, then how do we listen to them as things - as forces - that shape the world? Where from reduction to realism named sonic objects...
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The politics of sound
If sound is real, it must be accounted for. And accounting cannot happen outside politics. A sonic realism worth defending must go beyond metaphysics. Where sonic object mapping traced...
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Failed musical instruments
Sculptural instruments made from e-waste sit in silence while a sound installation plays back sounds from their making. Installation | 2021 | Duration: variable A sound installation built...
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Rudimentary transducers
A fully scored and programmed sound sculpture using 60 vibrating motors arranged on a sculptural surface - a grid that hums, shakes, and shudders to life as material, not metaphor....
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Listen to this space
Site-specific sound installations across Richmond upon Thames, each responding to its location's acoustic character. From dense midrange textures to binaural minimalism, the pieces reinsert...
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