Category: Nature

Hearing a Possible World in the Crackling of Dry Leaves

10/19/2020

I'm really pleased to share this article, written by myself and Salomé Voegelin reflecting on our sound and text installation 'And it tastes like hair' that we made for the Translating Ambiance exhibition last year.
Have a read of Unlikely Journal, issue 6 guest edited by Jordan Lacey, we're one of a huge number of articles sharing thoughts and artworks on ideas of wildness and translation;

Sound in the City: Translating Ambiance

5/1/2020

A nice article about the exhibition Translating Ambiance that Salomé Voegelin and I made the sound & text installation, 'And it tastes like hair', for. Curator Jordan Lacey interviewed by Foreground.

Read the article online here: https://www.foreground.com.au/culture/sound-in-the-city-translating-ambiance/

Walking with Crickets on BBC radio 4

8/31/2016

An excerpt of Walking with Crickets will feature on an upcoming radio show on the BBC Radio 4 Natural Histories series exploring the cultural interest in Crickets.

A cricket walk and interview were recorded on 8th August by Brett Westwood & Sarah Blunt with myself, Ximena Alarcon, Hannah Kemp-Welch & Francesca Oldfield in Elephant and Castle.

On air: November 2016 - Tuesday 1st @ 11am & Monday 7th @ 9pm.
Online in November listen here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05w99gb/episodes/player

Photo by Sarah Blunt

Walking With Crickets at Nerve Centre, Derry, with ISSTA.

8/24/2016

A sound walk with cricket song as part of ISSTA's Festival and Conference of TEMPORARY AUTONOMOUS ZONES.

6th September 2016 @ Nerve Centre 5.20pm

ISSTA, Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association

More on Walking With Crickets

With support from London College of Communication & CRiSAP.

Points of Listening: Walking with Crickets

4/1/2016

I look forward to leading an evening on listening in relation to my sound work. A sound walk with crickets to explore the city -a digital re-enactment of an trend of carry crickets for their song (previously explored in my collaborative work Regresses)

13 April 2016, 6.30pm
Free, limited availability, RSVP online.

https://pointsoflistening.wordpress.com/2016/03/29/pol-24-walking-with-crickets/
http://www.crisap.org/

Image credit: ivanwalsh.com – creative commons attribution

Sound performance / intervention at V&A Friday Late, Spectacle of the Species

3/20/2015

on March 27th 6.30 - 9pm

Collaboration with a fashion designer, a moving audio performance sited on the models as they moved through the galleries.