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Curriculum Vitæ

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My pronouns are he/him.

Current research interests
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  • Using sound to track and predict trends in wildlife populations
  • Sound as an engine for societal transformation
  • Sonic materialism
  • Invisible sounds: soil, decay, and other parties
  • Architectural sound traces
  • Sound as data and data as sound

Education
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  1. Acoustic Ecology

    2026 - 2029

    PhD by Portfolio, Canterbury Christ Church University

  2. Sound, Society, Nature

    2022 - 2023

    Diploma, The Margate School

  3. Informatics and Systems Engineering

    1990 - 1996

    Integrated Masters, Universidade do Minho (incomplete)

Professional development
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  • Field recording, located sound, and ecoacoustics (2025), CAMP
  • Murmuration #5 (2024), Jez riley French and Pheobe riley Law
  • Learning Sound and Synthesis (2023), Sarah Belle Reid
  • Field recording: soundscape composition (2021), Goldsmiths
  • Music production: field recording and soundscapes (2016), Goldsmiths

Artistic practice
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Public events & workshops
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Sound arts
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My recording practice has been focused on experimental music, from DIY software and electronics to more traditional instrumentation. It has directed my interest in listening, which has moved from a utilitarian perspective – collecting sounds to use in my compositions – to a critical one, wherein I consider all sounds as an ontological entity, rather than a facet of a being, object, or place.

  • Public footpath (working title) (2025). A study of the background sounds of Ramsgate.
  • Tiny Caves, Big Sounds (working title) (2025). An ongoing project with sociologist and artist Dr David Nettleingham, combining acousmatic sound and sculpture.
  • Ramsgate Favourite Sounds (working title) (2025). An ongoing project with sociologist and artist Dr David Nettleingham, building on Peter Cusack’s Favourite Sounds project, considering ways to increase accessibility for creators and the public.

Software
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  • Birbs (2024 – present). A port of Marylou Sharrock’s Bird Translator, a “home-made vocoder which transforms human voice into nightingale songs”. This enables artists who cannot build the original DIY hardware box to instead use an Organelle or any personal computer. Pure Data.
  • Poetry Reader (2024). A real-time vocal performance tool. Pure Data.

Community
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  • Ramsgate Noise Institute (2024 – present). I co-founded the Ramsgate Noise Institute with three other Ramsgate based sound artists. Inspired by Free Range and Deep Listen, we co-produce a series of free experimental music events in Ramsgate, happening quarterly.
  • Reveil (2023 – present). A global streaming event on Dawn Chorus Day, where a 25-hour transmission follows the dawn chorus around the globe.
  • This Museum Is Not Obsolete (2022 – present). I volunteer at This Museum Is Not Obsolete, a Ramsgate museum dedicated to obsolete telephony and music technology.

Selected recorded works
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Solo
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  • @ Hold (2025). Live recording at Hold Creative Spaces, part of an art installation / musical performance, The Last Days of Sail.

  • Minster Marshes 1745554320 (2025). Dawn chorus in Minster Marshes on April 25 2025.

  • Diary#7 (2025). A document of 2 months of experimentation and practice, along with a companion website. Sonic Dialogue.

  • Wind (2022). A response to a new house with a sea view and all the noises in Thanet. Fallow.

  • Catfest 2022 (2022). A recording of a live performance in Portugal.

  • Fog (2022). Navigating life post-Covid. Fallow.

  • A week (2021). A memory of a week in lockdown.

  • When the lights went out (2021). Recording what is left in looper buffers after cutting off the power.

Collective
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  • Sonic Heritage (2025). An interpretation of sounds recorded in various heritage sites around the world. Cities & Memory.
  • OPLS002 (2025). A second volume of improvisational electroacoustic music with Ollie Briggs, as Listening Service.
  • murmuration #5 (2025). A record of “a gathering of listeners”, collecting audio traces, photographs, and texts. Engraved Glass.
  • Migration Sounds (2024). An interpretation of migration (and migration-adjacent) sounds from around the world. Cities & Memory.
  • OPLS001 (2023). An experimental electroacoustic music duo with Ollie Briggs, Listening Service.
  • Degradation (2023). Examining rot, decay, and all things that end. White Noise Recordings.