vicinity songs
A guided walk using location sensitive speakers carried by the audience to create spatial sound compositions determined by the movement of the group. The journey begins on a train, speakers mounted in the luggage racks use satellite positioning to trigger elements of a musical composition, the train windows act like cinema screens of the surrounding…
we are forests
A work for public spaces, experienced and co-authored with audiences using mobile phones. This work explored ideas of intimacy in public space, starting with the question ‘what would you whisper in stranger’s ear?’. Experienced by audience members on their mobile phones in a public market space, it sought to try and create a work co-authored…
our broken voice
‘our broken voice’ is a subtlemob about trust and suspicion in public spaces, a Ballardian fiction of terrible events in a city centre, with the audience playing out the moments leading up to the event. A subtlemob is an invisible flashmob, it’s like walking through a film, experienced on headphones, played out by you and…
Give me back my broken night
[ created in collaboration with Uninvited Guests ] A mobile performance work using pervasive technology that asks audiences to collaboratively imagine the future of their city. Using a combination of location sensitive mobile devices and portable projectors it creates a magical, relevant and cinematic experience for participants. “I take away the unforgettable sense of wonder…
as if it were the last time
A subtlemob about celebrating the moment, about home, belonging and loss. This piece is a snapshot of the world around you, a chance to savour the moment, and make new connections with the people and the place surrounding you.This is no requiem, this a celebratory slow dance, a chance to savour the world you live…
what we have done
An MP3 soundwalk for two people in the Soho area of London. ‘what we have done’ imagines a film being made in a dystopian Soho of the future. As the dust settles on a post credit crisis world what’s left of our trust and values when everything is ‘to let’. This work was commissioned by…
my world is empty without you
What happens when everyone in the city is listening to the same song? Wearing headphones, you begin to travel across the city, the soundtrack in your ears turning the world around into your personal cinema. Suddenly a stranger stops you and puts a hand on your shoulder. Their lips don’t move but in your ears…
boundary songs
A series of micro-sound walks in the Redfern area of Sydney. These mixtures of music, sound design and spoken word are recreations of moments in the lives of local residents. Tracing the layered communities of the indigenous, colonial and immigrant residents of the area, the audio work was accompanied by a handmade folded guide containing…