Ode To Gimlet
Sous Vide vii
CORN
Mud Residency
Sous Vide vi
Sous Vide v (Intimacy)
Sous Vide iii
Sous Vide ii
Mirroring Drums
Sous Vide
Table at Terrapolis
The Listening Chair
Janus
For this iteration of Sous Vide, I made the largest vacuum bag to date. The bag was filled with materials that the group at the residency had consumed, items found in/around the Gironde estuary and mud-soaked paper forms. For the performance, I also employed the use of a harmonica being reverse-played by the vacuum pump itself.
As part of MA Sound Arts final show, Noise Bodies at Dilston Grove
Mirroring Drums are two large format drums that situate themselves somewhere between eardrum, microphone, speaker, and drum. Within different instances, they could be used as an oversized set of binaural microphones to create a recording for something the scale of a building could only really take a sense of enjoyment from or as a loudspeaker, where they can’t help but discolour the sound with their own selfish resonance. They are sensing organisms that use the membrane as a focal point. They are spatial interventions mirroring the space they inhabit both visually and sonically. They are ongoing research entities that are multifaceted tools.
At Dilston Grove, they take on the role of the speaker. Sounding out recordings they and their smaller drum counterparts have made within the field. In the gallery, one situates itself off the ground to mirror the space it inhabits, and the other decides to keep grounded in order to see you and for you to see yourself.
An Installation by Finbar Prior in collaboration with Beth Robertson as part of the Earth Day events across UAL organised by the Climate Emergency Network.
Inspired by Donna Haraway, our table is a sound installation exploring hybrid beings and engaging with collective listening as a form of activism. To sit down at a table for dinner is an act of symbiosis. Whether you’re engaging with other humans or eating alone with the trillions of microbiomes that digest your food. Table at Terrapolis is a celebration of the hybridity of human beings, we could not exist without the more-than-human world that generously provides for us. So come sit at our table! Listen deeply to the living beings within us and the vibrant materials that innervate our skin.
The table is made up of live moss and coir panels that have been amplified by hydrophones and stethoscopes that have been adapted with microphones.
The Listening Chair
A listening/recording item of furniture that accentuates the sound of the body interacting with the materials. Highlighting the body’s movements revealing an unconscious fidgeting discomfort.
A piece I made in response to the Her Noise archive at London College of Communication. Taking inspiration from Kaffe Matthews’ Sonic Bed, I envision a Companion piece to the installation that acknowledges the body as a listening organism.
Pictures taken at LCC Collections and Archives