Journal
Notes from the workshop and the field: recordings and how they were made, installations, new instruments.
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The workshop moves to Alto Minho
At the start of 2027 I am moving from Berlin to Alto Minho, in the north of Portugal, and the Sonic Artefacts workshop moves with me. For the past twenty years I…
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Tune In!, and two radio workshops this November
My book on radio art and the electromagnetic spectrum is out on 6 November, and in November I teach two workshops: in Lisbon and in Bratislava.
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Exhibited Music: a string quartet, made visible
With Ensemble KNM Berlin, body sensors turned four musicians’ physiological states into image during Brian Ferneyhough’s Second String Quartet.
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Sonoscultura: fire, ash and radio in Montemor-o-Novo
A sound art residency I co-curated in Portugal, and ASH Transmissions: burning magnesium, a steel plate and a radio signal that falls apart.
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Listening in the desert
January in Oman and Abu Dhabi: a field recording residency, a performance in Wadi Damm, and Sonoveyers, an installation in the sand with Michael Ang.
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A chessboard that moves sound, and an antenna for the unheard
Two new instruments from my own work: the Sonic Chessboard, a DIY octophonic panner in cork, and the Electromagnetic Pentagonal Antennas.
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Furry Windfilters, for the wildest days
The accessory people asked for most: about 25 dB less wind noise in strong wind, made from recycled synthetic fur.
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Field Recorders Picnic, Tempelhofer Feld
An afternoon on Tempelhofer Feld to share recordings, stories and gear, with talks by Ján Solčáni and me. Saturday 24 August.
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Cork, and two ways of listening
The first two Sonic Artefacts instruments: a cork microphone for the air, and a coil for the fields that hum around every machine.