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I’m working with people and places to make music for outside spaces. Reconsidering time through building non linear works that hover invisible in the air until they are triggered to play by a passing visitor.<\/p>\n

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\nI’m investigating this in two ways: one is for expansive ear listening and roaming, the other\u00a0 for full body listening and static. Both instances create audio environments away from our self-controlled solo perambulating sound spaces, the roving headphones, the self -designed portable home space transfer systems.<\/p>\n

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Both instances also put new music onto the street, away from the confines of the concert hall or\u00a0 gallery, away from the start finish ritual of the performance, inadvertently turning the visitor into performer and transforming the public sound space, sometimes so subtle, into patches of musical vitality. Was last night so good or was that really a trumpet gliding by?<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s re-work spatial considerations, exploring maps as musical scores and mapping as shifting structures moving in networked layers. Hook fragments of pieces onto them and use invisible connection possibilities to start and stop and recombine the sounds afresh, depending on where you, the listener, goes.<\/p>\n

Roaming listening uses the street, the maps, your routes as scores, with the listener carrying the music through neighbourhoods on an audio bicycle.\u00a0 I first researched this idea using FM transmission with Radio Cycle (2003)<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Then developed a satellite linked system for the first Folkestone Triennial (2008)<\/a>, with the The Marvelo Project.<\/a><\/p>\n

The full body static listening I\u2019m exploring through collective research project Music for bodies<\/a>; making architectural music that is felt as it moves through you via Sonic Beds <\/a>and Sonic Benches<\/a>, the map of your resting body becoming the score.<\/p>\n