We're busy busy busy at Shortwave Collective having run many workshops, given talks and interviews and shared our work on many radio stations over the last few months:

• Piksel Festival, Norwary - a unique opportunity for us to come together in a mini residency in which we ran two radio making workshops at the festival .... around 40 radios were made and listened to in the ice cold darkness of Bergen!
• We gave a talk about our work in the Sound Arts Lecture series at London College of Communication in December
• Constellations of Listening, our 22 hour sound work has been broadcast on  Resonance FM each week on between October 2022 and April 2023, and the first hour featured in the amazing Tsonami Festival in Chile in December 2022 
• How to Make an Open Wave Receiver, an audio work sharing the instructions for creating your own radio, has as been broadcast on RadioArt106, on Reboot FM, and on Melodic Distraction for International Women's Day
• The collective were interviewed on Patio Sound with our friends in Liverpool, a follow on from a workshop we ran last autumn.
• We've delivered a number of Open Wave Receiver making workshops: one with the Sound Arts BA and MA students at London College of Communication in March, another with the Bradford Sound Women Network in February, and we're running a hybrid workshop in New York in April!

Amongst many many other things, we're also working towards a new work for Struer Tracks festival in Denmark later this summer, at which we're collaborating with Bang and Olufsen. More coming soon on this ...

It's really nice to have been invited to speak at the international media music and sound arts network in education (IMMSANE) conference.

I'll be presenting my work in the opening pannel on Sound Arts, “Spaces and Actions of Innovation in Sound Art” with Cathy van Eck, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Bojana Knezevic and the Audio Leakage Community, moderated by Dr. Eleni-Ira Panourgia. I’ll be talking sharing a bunch of projects that I’ve been working on recently, in the context of participatory and global sonic exchanges: Acts of Air, Constellations of Listening and No Scent No Colour.
The session is in person (although I will be remote...) in the  Auditorium 2.03  between 16:00 - 17:30 on Friday 23rd Sept 2022.

Later in the evening there will also be a special enactment of Acts of Air by those attending in-person as part of the performance evening - everyone will be invited to enact Anne Lanzilotti’s score 'Beyond the accident of time' in the local community around the conference.

There are lots of other fantastic presentations and performances going on - the full schedule is online here: ​https://www.immsane.com/

It's been a busy and exciting year with the Shortwave Collective. None of which I've kept on top of posting on my website. To round up some of the brilliant things ...

Last month a big project "Constellations of Listening" was broadcast on Radio Art Zone, this 22 hour sound work brought together 6 months or more of listening experiments with a whole range of radio devices by the collective, at different times and sites around the world - from our living room windows, to balconies, gardens, local neighbourhoods to holiday and international work destinations. It was a joyful coming together of our radio practice and our work making and using the Open Wave-Receivers. Have a proper read on the SW website: ​www.shortwavecollective.net/constellations-of-listening.html

Around this we've run a whole host of workshops, making radio and listening to radio transmissions with new groups of people. Each workshop included new experimentation that then becomes part of the radio design, and many of the workshops were included in the Radio Art Zone broadcast. There's more info about each one on the SW werbsite - the workshops were  in Liverpool (UK) with At the Library this month, in Elephant & Castle, London (UK) with CRiSAP's Points of Listening series in June, at Soundcamp in Stave HIll, London (UK) in May, and in Orléans (France) in June. 

We've also presented our work a number of times this month: at the Listening Academy in London (UK), at Sono-(soro)rities, Montreal (Canada), with Phantom Power Podcast (USA) for an episode releasing next month, and back in June at Hackacoustic, London (UK).

And coming up next ... we're going to Pixel Festival in November!

There are many more good photos over on the SW website, and some sound will be coming soon ... 

Some time ago now (just before the pandemic in fact) I was interviewed by Nicole Robson, a PhD candidate in Media & Arts Technology at QMUL and a composer, musician and researcher exploring site-specific artworks.

It was a nice afternoon talking about the process of making site-specific sound works along with the terms for those involved - us as the makers of this work (my answer was 'an assembler, an aligner of things') and the name for the 'audience' ('participants' for me mainly).

I was one of nine interviews alongside other site-specific / responsive artists working with sound: James Bulley, Alex De Little, Roswitha von den Driesch & Jens-Uwe Dyffort, Sebastian Kite, Emma-Kate Matthews, Gerriet K. Sharma, Jeroen Vandesande and John Wynne. Nicole together with co-authors Nick Bryan-Kinns and Andrew McPherson have brought this together in the journal article 'On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners' in Organized Sound journal. 

Their study has identified artists as mediators, 'transfer[ing] their own situated and embodied listening to that of the audience and develop[ing] sonic and staging devices to direct perceptual activity and listening attention' (p1). Plus findings that '(2) the audience has an active relationship to the work; (3) the artwork shapes behaviour and perceptual experience; and (4) [the] engagement challenges.' (p3).

This is a really nice study of the formation of situated / site-specific sound artworks. It has also been a nice opportunity to reflect on my own practice and research since Feb 2020, of how my 'site' of the body has expanded to include other people's bodies, interweaving an 'audience' as participant even more so.

Have a read of the paper online here, or email me for a copy:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/organised-sound/article/abs/on-mediating-space-sound-and-experience-interviews-with-situated-sound-art-practitioners/4616FE17A193E086E9EF53B54F888589 

Our new sound work 'Open Wave-Receiver' premiers on Radiophrenia at 7pm on Feb 20th. Listen online here
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‘Open Wave-Receiver’ is an audio how-to guide from Shortwave Collective. In this piece, we share instructions on how to construct self-powered radio receivers, from the print version of our forthcoming 'how-to-guide' for Make Magazine. The work collages sounds of our collective, engaged in the processes of making and listening (including recordings made during a residency at Buinho Creative Hub, Portugal), as well as the sounds of our materials, our experimentation and workshopping, and finally, the signals received by the Open Wave-Receivers.

Read more about the development of  the Open Wave-Receiver here, and the Shortwave Collective here.

​Hugely honored to have this amazing line up of guest speakers presenting at our event - sharing their experiences of curating / directing urban sound art festivals and projects around the world: 

• Raquel Castro, Founder and Director of Lisboa Soa, Portugal
• Fernando Godoy, Director of Tsonami Festival of Sound Art, Chile
• Hardi Kurda, Founder and Curator of Space 21, Kurdistan
• Gascia Ouzounian, Principal Investigator of SONCITIES and Co-Director of Recomposing the City, UK
• Carsten Seiffarth, Curator of Bonn Hoeren, Germany

I'm very much looking forward to speaking about Acts of Air too, reflecting on the journey and interactions its had over the past year and a half. 

Join us, online 6 October, 3-6pm BST, Online: www.crisap.org/research/projects/sound-art-and-urban-spaces/

The exhibition has been extended!! On now until Jan 31st 2022.

​Head down to Finsbury park to experience the Peoples Park Plinth exhibition at Furtherfield Gallery. Three site responsive mobile artworks are live now till Jan 31st 2022. Just take your mobile phone and a set of headphones and head to the gallery in the centre of the park and to check out our work, 'We are just animals, humans and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds', by Hannah Kemp-Welch and I.

Peoples Park Plinth: www.furtherfield.org/peoples-park-plinth-2021/

 Image ​© Hydar Dewachi

What an incredible week learning about, un-learning about, making radios and expanded radios in all kinds of ways. There were found materials, unexpected sounds, antenna games up in the air, all conducted out in a lovely village in southern Portugal (and online) with the Shortwave Collective (in hybrid mode).

Big thanks to Buinho Creative hub for having us. 

What began as a "foxhole radio residency" became an "open wave-receiver" residency as we made our own variations on what a simple radio receiver could be, and re-positioned the device we were working with as listening devices / microphones of sorts listening in to the wider radio field and electromagnetic sphere all around us. We've written up our experiences in a How-to article being published in Make Magazine early next year, and an audio version will be premiered on Radiophrenia. More soon.

We also left an Open wave-receiver built into the Buinho Creative Hub roof, ready for listeners.

Here are a few pics from our making week. Sound coming soon.

Why are we testing radios by night? To listen at the 'grey line' transmission, when radio is much stronger at dawn and dusk. And wow was it!

And the below is Messejana life. Pomegranates, chickens, 360 sunsets, roads that lead to the sky, amazing doorways and washing lines that do more than dry clothes. Looking forward to going back next year :)

​We ended the residency on a high, with a morning workshop making experimental radios, all of which worked and picked up the transmissions available at that time. Pics coming in the Make Magazine article showcasing each hand made radio.

Huge thanks to Francesca Oldfield for shooting this video of our mobile app work 'We are just animals, humans and machines getting on together in specific lifeworlds' by Hannah Kemp-Welch and I.

​ If you cannot make it down to Finsbury park to visit the work in situ, this is the video for you :)