The Carry Principle

Dawn on contact mic and slinky. Another brilliant session with @intoart_uk during their visit to Teesside, looking at different ways to incorporate sound into their arts practice.

Gathering up the 20 mini speakers after the HaPenny Soundwalk in Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Photo by Atau Tanaka

Another side to my music practice, as one half of A Man Called Adam.

Cela a pris du temps, mais la publication MusiqueS & Interdisciplinarité de l'Université de la Sorbonne est enfin sortie. Mon article sur le musicien mobile se trouve à la page 345.

My research article  – Vers un Modèle Praticien de la Musique Mobile (Towards a Practitioner Model of Mobile Music) – is to be published as a follow up to the conference 'Actes des Rencontres Nationales sur les Recherches en Musique', Sorbonne University, Paris.

Last day of a summer’s nomad sessions. Listening back to some of the recordings and a chiffchaff begins to join in.

A rough recording on my phone, processing the sound on the sea through a group of apps on my trusty old iPad #seatechno

Testing the old Carry Principle system and it still works. Using the sound of the sea to make #seatechno https://www.instagram.com/p/CP-uD--qkcT/?utm_medium=tumblr

I found this early attempt at electro-acoustic composition, clang clack buzz, to play along with the hawk hovering video. 

Hawk, hovering. An iphone slowmo study.

My thesis is now available on DMU’s Open Research Archive: https://www.dora.dmu.ac.uk/handle/2086/19540

16 Aug 2020

Another repost, February 2015. Navigating the warren of passageways and stairs between Châtelet and Les Halles. 

This video marks the beginning of a period of sustained investigations to develop a workable and repeatable technique for headphonic performance. Paris at the best of times is a noisy, sometimes chaotic place, and this video captures some of the sense of bewilderment felt as I gave myself up to the movement of the streets. I was using a GoPro 3+ camera for post-performance analysis, but reflecting on the recorded material it seemed that the least interesting aspect was the iPad screen interaction. What was more fascinating was observing people in the streets, how they negotiate shared spaces, sitting, standing or walking.

Watching back the video today, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, it seems like another world.