R03 · FIELD ROUTE

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.

  1. intellectual Chapter 1

    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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  2. intellectual Chapter 5

    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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  3. intellectual Chapter 6

    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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  4. creative Sonic Artwork

    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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  5. creative Sonic Artwork

    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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  6. creative Sonic Artwork

    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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