Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm, ggggnnnnrrrrrrrr, nahhhhhhh, oooooooooooooooooP … I have been working with sound since the mid-2010s, maybe wishing to challenge the primacy of the visual or perhaps as a ‘return’ to the potential of the multiple in my bookworks … sound once more offered a democratic, affordable means for me to distribute my work. But even before this time I was alert to how noises propagated through landscapes and how my spoken words trod a line between intrusive and embedded within place.

My soundworks combine field recordings, found sound, constructed sound/foley and spoken word to create responses to places and themes. Treated and processed, my soundworks become not soundscapes but speculative sonic environments. I’m particularly interested in the possibilities of the human voice and the effects exertion and repetition have on the spoken word. This could be through live repetition of words or phrases, speaking while running or the digital duplication of word fragments.

A selection of my soundworks can be found on my Bandcamp page.