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Bio.
I live and work in South East England. I am an audio and visual practitioner and curator and organiser of experiential art events.
Since 2002 I have been organising multi-disciplinary art events in London, singular music events and events series. Of these, Scrap Club, public Destructivist art activity, Wet Sounds, immersive audio and visual events in swimming pools with music above and below the surface, the sound-based geo-locative app project Interzone Theatre and recently starting developing Audileum, Mixed Reality environments for performance capture and design.
In 2019 J was commissioned to produce and curate We're All Bats, an extensive series of listening arts workshops, activities and events in public spaces and venues as part of the Waltham Forest London Borough of Culture 2019. In 2020 -2021 We're All Bats has developed into The Listening Arts Channel featuring dozens of free original multiple-episode workshop series from UK and Indonesian contributors (part of a British Council commission).
I am co-founder and artistic director of the charity Liquid Vibrations set up to provide Musical Hydrotherapy training sessions to staff at special schools. The charity also delivers music production courses to students and staff at special needs schools. As part of my role in the charity, I have been recording and mixing music made by children with special needs, which resulted in a rather improv jazz playlist.
I am a sound designer, musician and video artist on stage, film and installations as well as independent artists works. Currently I work with the Jasmin Vardimon Company on their 2022 ALiCE production. I have been leading workshops on sound post production and location sound recording in universities in London and Doha.
My long-running weekly radio shows on London’s Resonance 104.4FM explored live improvised sound collage, cacophony and plunderphonics. these continued to my monthly show on CAMP.FR radio titled Everything At Once Forever.
I have worked on sound installations and performances in public spaces such as libraries, swimming pools and galleries. My work was exhibited/performed across Europe, Australia and North America at Red Bull Music Academy, ISEA, AV Festival, All Tomorrows Parties, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, Tate Modern, Ultima Festival, Adelaide Fringe, Macau Arts Festival, Helsinki Festival, Elektroni(k) and many more.
Brief statement
I am interested in using the portal that art work offers for the liberation and activation of the participant’s imagination by encouraging interactivity with the environment and objects within it, and by stimulating the audience’s resources of curiousity and intelligence. I am particularly interested in the contextualising powers of sound on the attribution of meaning to an experience.
My ongoing improvisation technique of abstract mash ups and cacophonies access the listeners’ cultural references, associations and memory and through breaking these forms, elevate their sound perception beyond the linearity of sonic progression to a holistic daydream state that envelopes the multitude of juxtaposed information.
