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July 2011 The participative project Driving Inspiration, on which I have worked with photographic artist Lynn Weddle, and schools Rye College and The Avenue, is due to be exhibited at Stoke Mandeville school on the 14th of July. (Images and further information coming soon to the Exhibitions page.) For more information about Driving Inspiration , click here. I've also been commissioned to create a site-specific sound installation at the National Theatre as part of Liberty Festival, September 2011. The area will be a designated 'chill-out' space, so the piece will seek to create a sense of relaxation, while also using found sounds from the vicinity to link it to the location and also to reference the anniversary of the Festival of Britain. As well being installed, the work will also feature segments of live performance at points throught the day. Please come and check it out! April 2011 The final exhibition for the Collaborations! project is here! The exhibition is at the Media Centre Gallery in Brighton from the 11th-17th of April. My segment of the exhibition, titled Associations will be exhibited alongside other Collaborations! projects led by artists Lynn Weddle and Jon Adams. For more information about Associations, click here. March 2011 Still busily working on the Collaborations! project alongside emergent Artist Carlo Keshishian and Athlete Alexandra Adams. We're also collaborating with Mosaic, a Black, Asian and Mixed Race parentage group in Brighton, and Asanti Afrika performers in Uganda. Carlo, Alexandra and I are using a "word association" theme where we each create a work based on a word, and then we 'swap' with each other to create an additional work in response to the other's piece. The final exhibition, due to be shown next month, will be an audio-visual installation, alongside additional pieces. Additionally, I am currently featured as a profiled artist on the new Drake Music website. Click here to take a look. December 2010 I’m busily working on the Collaborations! project (despite several inches of snow!) and am also preparing for the second workshop day of the Driving Inspiration project. Composing and project management are things that I have, in the past, done separately, so combining the two is a new experience for me. I’m working very hard, but enjoying the opportunity to do something so creative and ambitious and am learning a great deal. September 2010 I am very happy to have been offered the position of Established Artist for Collaborations!, one of 15 projects run by Accentuate which represent the arts, film, tourism, business, sport and heritage and are inspired by the values and achievements of the Paralympics. I will be working with a visual artist and a disabled athlete to explore themes linking sport, art and the South East region, to create a multimedia installation which will be exhibited in spring 2011. I am also working on Driving Inspiration, another Accentuate project, which is being led by a photographic artist. I will be working with young people in two schools to collaboratively compose short pieces of music/sound art in response to their photographs. For more information on these projects, please see the Accentuate website Additionally, my music will be profiled this month on Resonance FM, by Tim Nordlicht. June 2010 The mentoring sessions are about to come to an end. I’ve really enjoyed being a mentor and, while composing and performing will always be what I want to do most, I’d certainly consider doing some more mentoring in the future. May 2010 I’m delighted to have been asked to perform at PigPen! For those of you who don’t know, this is a brilliant, innovative and highly original club night run by Gabriel (Autist) and Ben (Artist). I’m really looking forward to it. Instruments I will be playing include, flute, keyboard, paper, cardboard… For more information about the club night, click on the links below PigPen MySpace page Interview with Ben and Gabriel PigPen facebook page
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February 2010 The sound installation I composed for the Myscape exhibition is currently on display at Glasgow’s Trongate 103 gallery. It has two movements, one based on London and the other based on my home town. It is for 4 speakers, one either side of the listener at approximate ‘ear height’, one above tilted downwards, and another on the floor tilted upwards. The idea was to position the speakers so as to create a ‘booth’ of sound that the listener can step into. The piece is different from my previous work in that I tried to strike a balance between emphasising the natural rhythms and patterns I notice in everyday sounds with the fact that some of these sounds can be quite difficult and uncomfortable to listen to, particularly for those of us who have autism-related sensory issues. While this was a difficult decision, as I prefer my work to be about exploiting the detail and beauty that I hear in certain sounds, I wanted to focus on the theme of the exhibition, which was exploring autistic people’s interpretations and perceptions of architectural landscapes. It was a great experience to have my work featured in an exhibition, and I very much enjoyed speaking at the launch event. For more information and details of how to obtain an exhibition catalogue (featuring a CD of my piece) please see Project Ability's Myscape page Please click here for archived news |